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EDITORS
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Paul Dourish, Connor Graham, Dave Randall, Mark Rouncefield
SYNOPSIS
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This theme issue is responding to the proliferation and developing
constellations of 'mundane' technologies in people's lives. We define
'mundane technologies' as those quite unremarkable, simple
technologies that have been 'made at home', have become 'ordinary'.
In this special issue we are interested in a variety of 'mundane
technologies' - mobile technologies, domestic technologies and office
technologies - and the often richly layered social interaction
surrounding them. We are interested in exploring studies of these
quite ordinary technologies that have already been appropriated and
subsumed into the fabric of family, social and organisational life and
do particular kinds of 'work': maintaining a sense of community;
assisting with everyday decision-making; maintaining "social
translucence"; providing channels for emotional labour and so on. Our
primary interests concern:
- how technology both provides an account of and makes us account
for our actions;
- the transformation of (constellations of) mundane technologies to
support particular routines;
- the kinds of social action and interaction mundane technologies
facilitate;
- the visibility that technology enforces despite its 'embeddedness'
and 'invisibility';
- the importance of the relationship between ordinary technologies
and notions of space and place.
SUBMISSIONS
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Possible submissions can include (but are not restricted to):
- extended reports from the field describing and analysing mundane
technologies for 'social' uses in particular contexts (e.g. the home,
an organization);
- studies of newly introduced, 'simple' technologies and how they are
transformed and become mundane;
- accounts across different studies describing how mundane
technologies provided insights into a setting.
TOPICS
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Possible topics include (but are not restricted to):
- How people maintain a sense of community in particular social
networks through mundane technologies;
- The role of mundane technology (e.g. digital media, spreadsheets)
use in family life, if any;
- How managers use mundane technologies (e.g. email, mobile phone,
Word, Excel) to lead in their organisations and the work that
technology does for them;
- How simple technologies reconfigure space.
EXTENDED CALL/MORE INFORMATION
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Available from:
http://www.mundanetechnologies.com/in-press.html#PUC-08
Email:
c.graham [at] lancaster.ac.uk and/or
m.rouncefield [at]lancaster.ac.uk
DATES
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8th August 2008: Submissions due
15th September 2008: First notification
15th December 2008: Revisions due
2009 15th February: Final notification
2009 30th March: Final revisions
2009 June: Planned publication
SUBMISSION DETAILS
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Submissions should be no more than 6000 words in length. Email
contributions to c.graham [at] lancaster.ac.uk and/or
m.rouncefield [at] lancaster.ac.uk. Authors should accord with the
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing authors' instructions available
from: http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779.
Reviewing will involve at least two reviews and two cycles of
reviewing.
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