Hello,
I have subscribed to the list. I am sending out a "call for papers" - maybe
someone from the list might be interested in contributing.
Pavlos
Wiki politics
The new online journal Re-public (www.re-public.gr/en) invites contributions
for its upcoming special issue entitled “Wiki politics”. The democratic promise
of the Internet has remained partly unfulfilled. It is still doubtful how the
use of new collaborative tools (wikis, blogs, forums, mailing lists,
podcasting, and videos) can transform the ways politics are practiced and how
the increasing prospects for larger political participation can result to the
emergence of active citizens. Perhaps, it is essential to start from the
concrete: Wiki politics is a concept that encompasses existing practices which
instantly give birth to new democratic forms. They produce a particular form of
political participation -horizontal and equitable- which operates on the basis
of the principles of decentralisation and openness. The issue aims to explore
the openings that the concept of the ‘wiki politics’ presents for democratic
theory and practice. Possible topics include:
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Horizontal forms of politics
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self-organizing networks
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collective intelligence
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wikis, new identities, new collectivities
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wikis and political campaigns
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wikifying knowledge
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technologies of cooperation (wikis, blogs, forums, mailing lists,
podcasting, and videos)
Essays should be approximately 1.000 words long.
We will also publish journalistic pieces or reports of shorter length.
Please submit contributions in any electronic format to:
phatzopoulos AT re-public.gr
Deadline for articles: 10 March 2007
For more information, see www.re-public.gr/en/ <http://www.re-public.gr/en/>
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