[ecrea] CfP Special Issue on “E-Deliberation 2.0”

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Call for Papers - extended deadline
International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG,
http://www.inderscience.com/ijeg)

Special Issue on “E-Deliberation 2.0”

guest-edited by
* Dr. Dimitra Milioni, Cyprus University of Technology, email
<(Dimitra.Milioni /at/ cut.ac.cy) <mailto:(Dimitra.Milioni /at/ cut.ac.cy)>>
* Dr. Vasiliki Triga, University of Zurich, email
<(vasiliki.trigka /at/ zda.uzh.ch) <mailto:(vasiliki.trigka /at/ zda.uzh.ch)>>

The concept of deliberation has a powerful normative value for
democracy that is seldom contested. Under deliberative conditions,
opinion formation and decision-making is based on processes of
public argumentation and reasoning among equal citizens. In the last
decades, the advent of online communication technologies has removed
some hitherto insurmountable constraints in the realization of
large-scale political deliberation and has revived the deliberative
ideal: governments increasingly include deliberative elements in
their e-government projects, while unstructured political discussion
is flourishing on the “wild” web. The so-called “web 2.0”
communication applications (such as social networking media, blogs,
twitter, wikis, collaborative filtering etc.) provide their users a
whole new set of opportunities and different modes of processing
information, networking and interacting. What is less clear is their
potential for creating the conditions needed for true deliberation.

The special issue focuses on exploring the deliberative potential of
web 2.0 technologies, and, at the same time, on the question whether we
need to rethink the very notion(s) of deliberation, in view of the ways
in which people put in use the online tools available to them.

Subject Coverage
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Contributions are sought for research papers pertinent to
E-Deliberation 2.0, on a set of themes that include, but are not
exclusively limited to, the following topics:

* definitions and typologies: criteria and methods for evaluating
and measuring the deliberative potential of web 2.0 technologies
* tensions between deliberation and equality,
political activism/advocacy, identity politics: what advances, if any,
are provided by the ‘participatory web’ in these respects?
* new media and the problems of like-mindedness, fragmentation and
poor quality in online deliberation
* applications and design of online deliberation
* impact of online deliberation (in comparison to face-to-face deliberation)
* the question of scale: local, national, or transnational
online deliberation? Challenges and opportunities
* aims and scope of online deliberation: opinion
formation, community/identity building, decision-making?

Additionally, case studies, experience reports and
impact/efficiency assessments are sought, based on operational findings
from E-Deliberation 2.0 implementations with considerable impact and
learning potential and documenting for each case the problems addressed
and solution achieved; policy context and strategy; e-deliberation
2.0 aspects of the solution; evaluation of effectiveness and
impact assessment; as well as results and lessons drawn.

The aim of this special issue is to provide broad and
international coverage.

Contributors may operate in a number of disciplines, in theoretical
or applied research, while they may use various
methodological perspectives, so that the notion of online deliberation
is studied from different standpoints.

Notes for Intending Authors
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Submitted papers should not have been previously published or
be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers
are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample
copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are
available on the IJEG Submission of Papers
web-page (http://www.inderscience.com/papers).

All papers must be submitted online through the IJEG On-line
Submissions System (http://www.inderscience.com/papers). If you
experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact
<(submissions /at/ inderscience.com) <mailto:(submissions /at/ inderscience.com)>>,
describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your
email the title of the Journal.

Important Dates
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Deadline for paper submission:            August 15, 2011 (firm extended
deadline)
Notification of review results:               October 30, 2011
Submission of revised manuscripts :    December 30, 2011

The special issue is scheduled for publication in 2012.
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IJEG Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Panagiotis Georgiadis
University of Athens,
E-Government Laboratory

IJEG Executive Editor
Prof. Dimitris Gouscos
University of Athens,
Faculty of Communication and Media Studies
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