[ecrea] Call for Papers ? Special Issue on Virtual Wo rlds as Sites for Social and Cultural Innovatio n

> Call for Papers ­ Special Issue on Virtual Worlds as Sites for Social
> and Cultural Innovation
>
> Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media
> Technologies ­ Vol. 18 No 1, February 2012
>
> Deadline for submission of research articles: 1 February 2011
>
> 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)
>
> ?       Meaning-making and sense-making processes in and/or about virtual
> worlds
> ?       Co-design and user-generated content
> ?       Entrepreneurship, market dynamics and management
> ?       The construction and communication of knowledge in and/or about
> virtual worlds
> ?       Conceptions of space, place and/or body and/or identity
> ?       Social experimentation and the establishment and maintenance of
> social practices and rules of social conduct
> ?       Learning and knowledge construction in higher education
> ?       Emerging fields and new forms of expression and/or dissemination
>
> 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.
>
> Please submit electronically ­ 
> http://rubrik.ruc.dk/ojs/index.php/chol/user/register
>
> Guidelines for the submission of papers can be 
> found at: http://convergence.beds.ac.uk/submissions

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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