From: SocioTechnical approaches to Information Systems Discussion List
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Sent: 02 June 2008 15:25
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Subject: CfP International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC),
Special Issue on: "Web 2.0 Goes Academia: Innovative Scenarios for
Socio-technical Communities"
Call for Papers, International Journal of Web Based Communities
(IJWBC), Special Issue on: "Web 2.0 Goes Academia: Innovative Scenarios
for Socio-technical Communities"
Web 2.0 is - as O'Reilly (2005) said - a "second generation of
Internet-based services". The common idea is to enable people to
collaborate and share information online in new ways, such as in wikis,
communication tools, social networking applications, and social tagging.
Figure 1 confronts the two concepts and lists examples from Web 2.0
usage in academia. Web 2.0 and Social Software focus on new or existing
software systems which are influenced by human communication and
collaboration, or, to put it another way, Web 2.0 is heavily reliant on
social interaction, and so social web-based applications generate and
require a human-centred design approach.
The number of users of Web 2.0 applications in private settings (e.g.,
leisure) is very high. However, in organisations and institutions, Web
2.0 concepts or such combined applications are still at an early stage.
The same is true for universities. There are some Web 2.0 tools in
universities, in particular Wikis and Blogs, but the usage of these
tools for supporting teaching, learning or research is not yet fully
developed. How can Web 2.0 support community-based learning or research
processes in academia?
The aim is to collect proposals for academic practice with Web 2.0, to
specify research questions dealing with Web 2.0 in academia or to
discuss new research methods and their challenges in this topic (e.g.,
e-ethnography). The special issue wants to share practical experience or
research results about using Web 2.0 in teaching and research, for
example, e-learning goes Web 2.0, scientific communities go Web 2.0 or
research publications go Web 2.0. Therefore, we strongly encourage
researchers and practitioners who have ideas or experience of using Web
2.0 applications in academia to submit a paper.
Deadline for paper submission: 18 July, 2008.
Please find further information e.g., author guidelines online:
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=972
<http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=972>
Best regards,
Isa Jahnke
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Prof. Dr. Isa Jahnke
- Assistant Professor for Institutional Research and Sociotechnical
Communities -
Dortmund University of Technology
Center for Research on Higher Education and Faculty Development
Office: 1. Floor, Room 104
Vogelpothsweg 78
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Phone: +49.(0)231.755.7843
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