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[ecrea] Convergence cfp - Special Issue on Virtual Worlds as Sites for Social and Cultural Innovation

Mon May 03 14:51:35 GMT 2010


Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
 
Call for Papers – Special Issue on Virtual Worlds as Sites for Social and Cultural Innovation
Vol. 18 No 1, February 2012
 
Guest editors: Louise Phillips and Sisse Siggaard Jensen, Communication Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark.
 
Convergence invites contributions for its forthcoming special issue on ‘Virtual Worlds as Sites for Social and Cultural Innovation’. There is a growing recognition of the importance of virtual worlds as environments that carry the potential for social and cultural innovation by making possible new forms of social relationships based on communication among avatars. We seek papers from across the humanities and social sciences that present distinctive theoretical and empirical analyses of virtual worlds and deal systematically and critically with their possibilities and limitations in relation to social and cultural innovation. We particularly welcome papers that are themselves innovative in their research practices and that reflect carefully on their use of theories and methodologies including efforts to rework theories and methodologies developed for the study of other media.
 
Papers may, in principle, apply any relevant conceptualisation of processes of social and cultural innovation, they may focus on any space that is widely categorised as a virtual world in the context of a discussion of contested definitions of virtual worlds, and they may report on attempts to produce innovation such as simulation or experiments in virtual spaces. Possible topics include (but are not restricted to)
   
We are hoping with this issue both to develop the emergent multidisciplinary field of study on virtual worlds and to feed into the wider body of research about digital communication and culture.
 
Deadline for submission of research articles:  1 February 2011
 
Please send all submissions to Associate Professor Louise Phillips (at (louisep /at/ ruc.dk)) – as attachments in Microsoft Word.  Please include the author’s or authors’ surname(s) in the subject line, and full contact details for the author(s), as well as information on the current affiliation or position of the author(s), in the attachment and also in the accompanying email.
 
Guidelines for the submission of papers can be found at: http://convergence.beds.ac.uk/submissions

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