[p2p-research] Fwd: CFP: Exploring Produsage - Special Issue of NRHM

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Axel Bruns <a.bruns at qut.edu.au>
Date: Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:31 AM
Subject: CFP: Exploring Produsage - Special Issue of NRHM
To: Axel Bruns <a.bruns at qut.edu.au>
Cc: "Jan Schmidt (j.schmidt at hans-bredow-institut.de)" <
j.schmidt at hans-bredow-institut.de>


Dear colleague,

Apologies for the somewhat impersonal nature of this email.

You'll be aware of my work on the concept of produsage over the past few
years, chiefly in the book Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From
Production to Produsage (New York: Peter Lang, 2008).

I am writing to you now to let you know about the CFP for a special issue of
the journal New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia on this topic, which my
colleague Jan Schmidt (from the Hans-Bredow-Institut, Hamburg) and I have
been invited to edit. We would be delighted if you could pass the CFP below
on to any of your colleagues who may be interested in contributing, and/or
if you were able to contribute an article yourself.

The full CFP is below - and of course we'd be happy to respond to any
queries you might have. Many thanks in advance !



Exploring Produsage

A Special Issue of New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Call for papers


The concept of produsage points to the shift away from conventional
producer/consumer relationships, and highlights the more fluid roles of
users and contributors within social media environments. Participants in
open source projects, in Wikipedia, in YouTube and Second Life are no longer
merely consuming or using preproduced material, but neither are they at all
times acting as fully self-determined producers of fully formed new works;
rather, they occupy a hybrid position as produsers of content.

Produsage processes are now evident across a wide range of activities -
mainly online, but increasingly also extending to the offline world - from
citizen journalism and communal knowledge management through to
collaborative artistic activities, from learner-led education models to
citizen engagement in political processes. As such models establish
themselves, what does an examination through the lens of the produsage
framework reveal about their internal operations? How do they affect the
existing institutional, industrial, social, and cultural environments within
which they operate? How may they be guarded against cooptation and
exploitation by corporate interests? What possible futures do they
foreshadow?

Potential contributions to this special issue could include, but are not
limited to, areas such as:

* Conceptualising produsage: theoretical frameworks for examining produsage
activities, practical examples of produsage projects, ...

* Historical and comparative perspectives: produsage and other forms of
collaborative and commons-based work, precedents of produsage, ...

* Technologies and practices of produsage: collaborative dynamics of leading
produsage spaces, impact of the technological foundations of produsage, ...

* Empirical perspectives on produsage: case studies of produsage and its
effects, ethnographic research into produsage communities, ...

* Methodology: research approaches to the study of produsage, tracking and
evaluating produser activitities, ...

* Critical perspectives: economic, legal, pedagogic, sociological
perspectives on produsage, ...


For this special issue of NRHM, we invite contributions on these and other
topics related to produsage. Full papers should be around 7,000 words;
shorter papers (around 3,000 words) for technical notes, industry
perspectives or opinion pieces are also welcome. More detailed instructions
for authors can be found online: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/nrhm.
Queries should be directed to the Guest Editors.

Authors should submit their papers online via the New Review of Hypermedia
and Multimedia Manuscript Central site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham


Important dates

16 July 2010 - paper submission deadline

24 September 2010 - author notification

15 October 2010 - final copy due

Northern Spring 2011 - publication


Guest Editors

Axel Bruns, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation
(Brisbane), a.bruns at qut.edu.au

Jan Schmidt, Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research (Hamburg),
j.schmidt at hans-bredow-institut.de


--
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ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation  http://cci.edu.au/
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