S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC               NetLab Director
Department of Sociology                  725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388
University of Toronto   Toronto Canada M5S 2J4   twitter:barrywellman
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fyi. Please contact Andrea Forte and Cliff Lampe for more info -- not me. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:11:43 -0500 From: Andrea Forte <aforte@drexel.edu> To: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca>, "cacl@umich.edu" <cacl@umich.edu> Subject: ABS Special Issue on Open Collaboration and Wiki Research Special Issue on Open Collaboration and Wiki Research American Behavioral Scientist Editors: Andrea Forte, Cliff Lampe, Barry Wellman In the past decade, the popularization of open collaboration tools have led to innovation and disruption of established processes in nearly every dimension of social life. Phenomena like transparency in governance, citizen journalism, open source, open content production, crowdsourcing and distributed innovation have captured the attention of scholars from diverse fields. Although Wikipedia made it a household term, in popular press, the term ?wiki? has come to represent a much broader range of ideas than an editable web page. We invite paper submissions that examine diverse aspects of open collaboration. By open collaboration we mean the development of novel social structures supported by technologies including wikis and other content management systems that allow people to share and build content. The intent of this special issue is to showcase cutting edge research on how open collaboration is organized and how systems that support it are designed, implemented and used in a variety of task contexts. We encourage submissions from diverse disciplines that study social systems, culture and technology. Suggestions for submission topics include but are not limited to: * Social structure and organization of open collaborations * Motivation and incentive to participate * Technical features of systems that support collaboration * The use of reputation and rating in open collaboration systems * The impact of open collaboration on - education and learning - scientific collaboration - journalism - government - business - knowledge management American Behavioral Scientist (ABS) is a monthly, peer-reviewed journal that provides in-depth perspectives on contemporary topics throughout the social and behavioral sciences. Each issue offers comprehensive analysis of a single topic, examining inter-disciplinary, important, and diverse arenas. Abstracts Due: Dec 15, 2011 Invitations to Submit: Jan 5 Papers Due: Mar 31 Notification: May 1 ************** Submission Procedure Interested authors should submit an abstract of no more than 500 works by December 15th. The proposal should include A. the central research question(s), B. relevant analytical methods and theoretical frameworks, C. some basic description of what contribution the author(s) expect to make. Please include a brief (1-2 sentence) biography of the author(s). Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be invited to submit a full manuscript of 7,000-8,000 words for review by March 31st. Since ABS is an interdisciplinary journal that serves a broad readership, authors should strive to make their contributions clear to non-specialist audiences. Please email abstract submissions to aforte@drexel.edu, subject: ABS Wiki Research ***************