Call for Papers (and Photos) from Re-imagining Democracy - Towards a critique of web 2.0
Somewhat prompted by David Wilcox' interesting recent post on e-petitions (and interviews) where he talks about the (different) e-petition systems deployed by respectively the Scottish Parliament and Westminster I thought I'd share a call for papers that came through just as I was recently catching up with Osbert Lancaster at the superb new Melting Pot in Edinburgh (more about the latter in due course):
Call for papers - Towards a critique of web 2.0
Online journal Re-public invites contributions for its upcoming special issue entitled: "Towards a critique of the social web ". Launched with a debate between Trebor Scholz and Paul Hartzog, the issue aims to explore the larger political questions that are often neglected under the web 2.0 hype. The debate is organised along five axes:
1. production
2. exploitation
3. individuality/collectivity
4. cultural difference
5. activism
We invite practically all types of contributions:
- Essays that deal with any of these five political dimensions of the social web or that criticise the choice of these five. These essays should be approximately 1.500 words long.
- Shorther commentaries on the Hartzog-Scholz debate. Both, authors will respond to criticisms, closing provisionally the special issue.
- Photos, audio, videos, or links to projects or key texts that illuminate, criticise, put in context the special issue.
- Anything else that we haven't thought about.
Please submit contributions in any electronic format to:
phatzopoulos AT re-public.gr
Deadline for articles: There is practically no deadline. The special issue will be an ongoing project, with a provisional first ending on January 15, 2008.
For more information, see http://www.re-public.gr/en/
