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<DIV><SPAN class=541292408-19012006><FONT color=#0000ff size=2> This call
expresses explicit interest in OS collaborative
processes...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=541292408-19012006> </SPAN><BR>---------- Forwarded
message ----------<BR><SPAN class=gmail_quote>From: <B
class=gmail_sendername>M/C - Media and Culture</B> <<A
href="mailto:mc@media-culture.org.au">mc@media-culture.org.au</A>><BR>Date:
12-Jan-2006 03:12 <BR>Subject: CFP: Media and Culture Journal: 'collaborate'
issue (3/6/06; journal issue)<BR><BR></SPAN>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 12 January
2006
<BR><BR> M/C
- Media and
Culture<BR>
<A
href="http://www.media-culture.org.au/">http://www.media-culture.org.au/</A><BR>
is calling for contributors to the 'collaborate' issue of
<BR><BR> M/C
Journal<BR>
<A
href="http://journal.media-culture.org.au/">http://journal.media-culture.org.au/</A><BR><BR>M/C
Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal <BR>between
the popular and the academic, and a blind- and
peer-reviewed<BR>journal.<BR><BR>To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out
our Website, which contains<BR>all the issues released so far, at <<A
href="http://journal.media-culture.org.au/">
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/</A>>.<BR>To find out how and in what
format to contribute your work, visit<BR><<A
href="http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/submission.php">http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/submission.php
</A>>.<BR><BR> Call
for Papers:
'collaborate'<BR>
Edited by Donna Lee Brien and Axel Bruns<BR><BR>Collaboration is a highly
desirable and, increasingly, often a mandated<BR>element in many modes of
Australian (and international) research, creative <BR>and business practice -
and a factor on which successful and innovative<BR>outcomes, as well as funding,
often depend. In many cases, however,<BR>participants in collaborative projects
have a limited understanding of<BR>collaboration (in theory and practice) beyond
that of a general concept,<BR>tossed about with nods of approval but rarely
unpacked. In other fields of<BR>DIY content production, from open source
software development to the large- <BR>scale distributed collaboration on
projects such as the Wikipedia,<BR>collaboration often happens perhaps even more
intuitively, but nonetheless<BR>produces results which can usually stand up to
serious professional<BR>scrutiny. So how, and why, do we
collaborate?<BR><BR>This issue of M/C Journal will feature case study articles
from the point<BR>of view of practitioners or researchers, innovative research
about<BR>collaborative practice, examinations of authorship credits and
copyright <BR>issues in collaborative work, including collaborative
interventions like<BR>the creative commons, and wider insights into the apparent
human need for<BR>interaction, collaboration, and what World Wide Web inventor
Tim Berners- <BR>Lee has called 'intercreativity'. We are interested in
best-practice<BR>examples of successful collaborations across communities,
disciplines,<BR>media forms, space and time. We would like to build new
definitions and <BR>feature work on how the various stakeholders (individuals,
enthusiasts,<BR>artists, university/research institutions, industry &
non-profit<BR>organisations) successfully find each other and build working
partnerships. <BR>Not all collaborative ventures are successful, however, and so
we are also<BR>calling for examinations of 'what went wrong' to make a useful
contribution<BR>to this issue.<BR><BR>Send all enquiries and articles of
1000-1500 words to the editors at <BR><A
href="mailto:collaborate@journal.media-culture.org.au">collaborate@journal.media-culture.org.au</A>.<BR><BR>Article
deadline: 6 March 2006<BR>Issue release
date: 3 May 2006<BR><BR><BR>M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A
Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 <BR>as a place of public intellectualism
analysing and critiquing the meeting<BR>of media and culture. Contributors are
directed to past issues of M/C<BR>Journal for examples of style and content, and
to the submissions page for <BR>comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C
Journal articles are
blind<BR>peer-reviewed.<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Further
M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2006: <BR><BR>'street': article
deadline 1 May 2006, release date 28 June
2006<BR>'free': article deadline 26 June
2006, release date 23 August
2006<BR>'filth': article deadline 21 August
2006, release date 18 October 2006
<BR>'jam': article deadline 16 October 2006,
release date 13 December
2006<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>M/C
- Media and Culture is located at <<A
href="http://www.media-culture.org.au/">
http://www.media-culture.org.au/</A>>.<BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>M/C
Journal is online at <<A
href="http://journal.media-culture.org.au/">http://journal.media-culture.org.au/
</A>>.<BR>All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available
there.<BR>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>end<BR><BR><BR>
Dr Axel Bruns <BR><BR>--<BR>General
Editor <A
href="mailto:editor@media-culture.org.au">editor@media-culture.org.au</A><BR>M/C
- Media and
Culture <A
href="http://www.media-culture.org.au/">
http://www.media-culture.org.au/</A><BR><BR><BR>
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