This is a call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication on "Computer-Mediated Collaborative Practices and Systems" which I am editing. Those interested in writing for this issue may also be interested in submitting to the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science minitrack on "Information and Communication Technologies in support of Knowledge Management, Organizational Memory, and Organization Learning (KM/OM/OL)." Please feel free to forward this CFP to other relevant lists, and to send questions to me (haythorn@uiuc.edu). /Caroline Haythornthwaite ____________ Call For Papers COMPUTER-MEDIATED COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES AND SYSTEMS Special Issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Guest editor: Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu) Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts due: May 1, 2004 Full papers due: Sept. 1, 2004 Anticipated publication: Spring or Summer 2005. This special issue addresses computer-mediated collaboration: how it is practiced, what systems support it, and how computer-mediated collaborative practice differs from or is the same as offline practice. Papers are invited that explore what constitutes collaborative practice and how technologies enable and support such practice, issues and examples of social and technical design for collaboration and collaborative groups, and studies of the effectiveness and usefulness of collaborative systems. This call for papers invites submissions that explore collaborative activities in work groups, scientific research teams, management teams, collaborative learners, or other collaborative endeavors, with an emphasis on collaborative practices, distributed knowledge issues and practices, social and technical design of collaborative systems, and/or evaluation of systems that support such work. Systems include those formally defined as collaboratories as well as knowledge management systems, digital libraries, online learning environments, other general online environments, and use of computer-mediated communication, where the focus is on collaborative practices. SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Potential authors should submit a preliminary proposal of 500 words by May 1, 2003 to the issue editor Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu). The proposal should indicate the theoretical and/or empirical basis for the paper, the kind(s) of systems and environments considered, preliminary themes and/or findings, and key references. Earlier submissions and questions are encouraged. Authors whose proposals are accepted for inclusion will be invited to submit a full paper of roughly 7,000-10,000 words by September 1, 2004. Since JCMC is an interdisciplinary journal, authors should plan for papers that will be accessible to non-specialists, and should make their paper relevant to this audience. Anticipated publication date for the issue is Spring or Summer 2005. Final submissions should be e-mailed to the special issue editor, Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu) Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL, 61820 phone: 217-244-7453 fax: 217-244-3302 www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn --------------------------------------------------------------------