Online Deliberation in Politics and Policy: A JITP Mini-Summit Monday November 23, 2009 The Autonomous University of Barcelona Featured Speaker: Dr. Alexander Trechsel, Swiss Chair Professor in Federalism and Democracy "Attracting parties and voters: Party self-placement and voter profiling in the EU Profiler project" Call for Presenters The Editors of the Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) invite proposals for workshop presentations on the theme of "Online Deliberation in Politics and Policy". This 1-day working meeting will feature 4-6 extended presentations from authors engaged in ongoing research likely to result in a submission to JITP: http://www.jitp.net/ The JITP submission guidelines are online at: http://www.jitp.net/m_submiss.php There is no registration fee. To be considered for a presentation opportunity, please submit a 200-word (maximum) abstract layout the research agenda and the techniques you are employing. Preference will be given to researchers with a clear plan to complete research and submit to JITP. The deadline to propose is October 10, 2009. Please send abstracts and a link to your home page to: Dr. Stuart Shulman Editor, JITP stu@polsci.umass.edu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst 200 Hicks Way Amherst, MA 01003 http://people.umass.edu/stu/ stu@polsci.umass.edu 413-545-5375 Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Politics http://www.jitp.net Director, QDAP-UMass http://www.umass.edu/qdap/ Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/