Re: SIGGROUP CFP: Political Economy of Power in Online

I could see forwarding it to -advocacy or maybe even -general, but it
just seems too off-topic to put up on our website. Now if someone is
accepted and plans to speak on postgresql I could see this being event
worthy.

Robert Treat

On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 06:05, Justin Clift wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Any chance this will be of interest to some of our Community Members?
>
> Was wondering whether it's worth putting a news item up for it or
> something.  It's not directly related to PostgreSQL specifically, but
> more of virtual communities in general.
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
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> Subject: [Freesw] Fwd: SIGGROUP CFP: Political Economy of Power in
> Online    Communities
> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:33:36 -0500
> From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>
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> sorry for cross-posting
> >
> > Call for submissions
> > Deadline: 15/01/2005
> >
> >
> > Call for Submissions: SIGGROUP Bulletin special issue on Virtual
> > Communities: ''Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power
> > in Virtual Communities''
> >
> > Editors:
> > Jason Nolan, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto
> > Jeremy Hunsinger, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia
> > Tech
> >
> > Submissions due January 15, 2005
> >
> > Less of You, More of Us: The Political Economy of Power in Virtual
> > Communities
> >
> > The goal is to bring into the dialogue a number of researchers on
> > virtual community who are looking at the borders and peripheral
> > locations that are ignored, unknown or explicitly overlooked. Within
> > the notion that community, often the walls we build around ourselves
> > form mechanism of power and preference, this issue will examine online
> > communities that are excluded or self-excluding from the dominant
> > forms, norms and discourses. For example, there are a large number of
> > researchers inquiring into the recent blogging phenomenon, but I have
> > heard many explicitly exclude technologies/communities such as
> > LiveJournal.com with his 3.8 million users (1.7 active), and discount
> > the value of teenage bloggers, who are mostly female (67% of
> > Livejournal users). Because researchers tend to cover familiar
> > territories, we encourage authors to explore alternatives. Our issue
> > will provide researchers with the opportunity to expose the readership
> > to a wider sense of virtual community and what is going on at the
> > edges of the event horizon.
> >
> > Some of the anticipated themes are: hacking virtual community; the
> > overlooked, broken down, subverted or reconceptualized virtual
> > communities; borders and breaches, the ordering of virtual community;
> > hacktivism; sexually focused virtual communities; questioning the
> > value of online community; collective intelligence is just the fordism
> > of the mind; the Slash Fiction communities; MOOs the early forgotten
> > virtual communities; and the code beneath the community - exploring
> > programmer and system administrative communities.
> >
> > Submissions should be sent to both: jason.nolan@utoronto.ca and
> > jhuns@vt.edu Web site: http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup
> >
> > Templates for SIGGroup submissions:
> > http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
> >
> >
> >
> > Jeremy Hunsinger
> > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
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> Jeremy Hunsinger
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