[Apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR CHAPTERS Submission Deadline: April 30, 2005 Designing for Networked Communications: Strategies and Development A book edited by Simon B. Heilesen and Sisse Siggaard Jensen, Roskilde University, Denmark. INTRODUCTION Designing for Networked Communications is to be a book about how we plan, use and understand the products and the dynamic social processes or tasks upon which depend some of the most vital innovations - social as well as technological - in the knowledge society. Networked communication is proliferating. To-day, not only are existing mediated forms of communication being remediated in electronic form, but also hitherto direct forms of communication in complicated social settings are being supplemented or even replaced by computer mediated communication (CMC). We are coming to depend on CMC-products. As a result, the way they function and the way we use them inevitably influences or even determines how we communicate and how we think about communication. Designing products for CMC may be seen as a cycle, where tasks require the creation of artefacts, and where artefacts condition modifications of tasks. The tasks that we wish to examine are processes of communication between individuals by means of computer networks (within and across organizations) as well as the dissemination of information from a sender to a target group. The artefacts include physical networks, hardware, software as well as the manipulation of symbols in the act of communicating. Designing is to be understood in a broad sense as (1) the underlying scheme for the planning, functioning and development of an artefact, (2) the actual arrangement and functionality of various elements of the artefact, (3) the development of strategies and adaptations required for performing tasks by means of the artefact in the given social context and subject to certain basic conditions, and (4) the development of creative strategies for social innovation and the identification of new tasks to be performed by means of a redesign of existing artefacts or with new artefacts. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK The book is meant to further our understanding of ICT-design processes by identifying strategies employed both by developers and users in the dynamic processes of creating and using artefacts. The various chapters will present and reflect on relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area. Bridging the fields of HCI-design in Computer Science and Computer-mediated Communication in Communication Studies, the book will represent an interdisciplinary approach that is valuable for stimulating unconventional thinking and a creative exchange in and across two important academic and professional fields. THE TARGET AUDIENCE Professionals, researchers and students working in the fields of Communication, Computer Science (in particular HCI and system development), E-learning and Computer Supported Collaborative Work. RECOMMENDED TOPICS include but are not limited to the following - Theories and models of designing, - Overall strategies and methodologies, - Creative and/or sense making strategies and methodologies, - Social innovation strategies and methodologies, - Negotiation of meaning and collaboration, - Learning strategies and environments, - Organizational learning and learning cultures, - Organizational games and role plays, - Problem solving and decision making, - Workplace communication, - Distributed organizations/ workplaces, - Team work and team building, - Project management and leadership, - Knowledge sharing and knowledge management, - General communication for stationary and mobile users, - Dissemination of information and information searching, - E-publishing and Web-publishing. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 30, 2005, a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by May 31, 2005 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by October 31, 2005. All submitted chapters will be reviewed by at least two reviewers on a blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc., http://www.idea-group.com/, publisher of the Idea Group Publishing, Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing and Idea Group Reference imprints. Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to both editors: Simon B. Heilesen, E-mail: simonhei@ruc.dk, Tel. (+45) 4674 3785 Sisse Siggaard Jensen, E-mail: sisse@ruc.dk, Tel. (+45) 4674 3771 Fax: (+45) 4674 3075 Institute of Communication Studies, Journalism and Computer science Roskilde University, P.O. Box 260, DK 4000 Roskilde, Denmark For additional information on the project, please visit the Designing for Networked Communications web site: http://www.ruc.dk/~simonhei/dnc/