<div class="gmail_quote">The focus on "plain language" and public engagement makes this call a really interesting one for talking about the role of hackerspaces in facilitating public engagement with technology.<br>
<br>The relevant, first deadline is a month away:<br>
- 15 Oct 2011: submission of abstracts of approx. 250 words<br>(title, some relevant details about the topic, and a short biography of<br>the author or authors involved)<div><br></div><div>If you're interested in collaborating on this, please get in touch.</div>
<div><br></div><div>:) -Jodi<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sue Malta</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:SMalta@groupwise.swin.edu.au" target="_blank">SMalta@groupwise.swin.edu.au</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:04 AM<br>Subject: [Air-L] CFP: iJETS Special Themed Edition *Deliberating Converging Technologies*<br>To: <a href="mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org" target="_blank">air-l@listserv.aoir.org</a><br>
<br><br>** High Priority **<br>
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Dear Colleagues<br>
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<br>
Please see below for the CFP for a special themed edition of iJETS<br>
*Deliberating Converging Technologies*. Please circulate to all<br>
interested networks. All enquiries should be directed in the first<br>
instance to Dr Gerd Scholl.<br>
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Kind regards<br>
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<br>
Sue Malta<br>
Managing Editor, iJETS<br>
<a href="http://www.swin.edu.au/ijets" target="_blank">www.swin.edu.au/ijets</a><br>
<a href="mailto:smalta@swin.edu.au" target="_blank">smalta@swin.edu.au</a><br>
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Dear colleagues,<br>
<br>
in October 2012, iJETS will be publishing a special themed edition<br>
entitled:*Deliberating Converging Technologies*. The issue will take an<br>
international comparative perspective on public engagement with emerging<br>
technologies, such as nanotechnologies. It will reflect upon the<br>
experiences made with different public engagement exercises on new<br>
technologies in different countries and cover a wide range of initiators<br>
of these processes, such as academia, public authorities, enterprises,<br>
NGO’s, et cetera. It will critically assess public participation<br>
especially on nanotechnologies from a cross national and cross cultural<br>
perspective. Based on the outcomes of these assessments, it will sketch<br>
possible perspectives of deliberation on converging technologies.<br>
Contributions may deal with different participation cultures and<br>
institutional settings of engagement, for example, one-off events versus<br>
network-oriented processes. They may elaborate on questions such as<br>
legitimisation and performance of deliberative dialogues, methodological<br>
aspects of engagement, for example, the role of electronic communication<br>
and new media, and relation to and impact upon (political)<br>
decision-making. Furthermore contributions are invited focussing on<br>
impacts of public engagement on innovation and technology governance and<br>
the shaping of future technologies.<br>
<br>
The Editors for this edition will be Gerd Scholl, Ulrich Petschow and<br>
Jan-Peter Ferdinand of the Institute for Ecological Economy Research<br>
(IÖW), Berlin, Germany. Gerd and Ulrich are senior researchers at IÖW<br>
and have co-organised the German Consumer Conference on Nanotechnologies<br>
(2006/2007). They were partners in the European NANOPLAT project<br>
(2008/2009) – a project that, amongst others, reviewed deliberative<br>
processes on nanotechnologies in Europe, both at the EU and national<br>
level. Jan-Peter is a research associate at IÖW with a background in<br>
science and technology studies.<br>
<br>
iJETS is a multi-disciplinary journal and, as such, speaks to a wide<br>
audience. We welcome contributions from all branches of the social and<br>
behavioural sciences and the humanities. We also welcome contributions<br>
from those in the physical and life sciences with a concern for the<br>
social dimensions of science. The different disciplines all have their<br>
own specialised languages, making communication between disciplines all<br>
but impossible. For this reason iJETS insists upon clear and direct<br>
language, facilitating communication between specialists and the general<br>
public.<br>
<br>
All papers will be subjected to double blind, peer-review.<br>
<br>
The tentativeschedule for the special themed edition is as follows:<br>
<br>
- 15 Oct 2011: submission of abstracts of approx. 250 words<br>
(title, some relevant details about the topic, and a short biography of<br>
the author or authors involved)<br>
- 15 Nov 2011: invitations to submit a full paper<br>
- 15 March 2012: submission of full papers<br>
- 15 May 2012: reviews: revisions or rejections<br>
- 15 Aug 2012: submission of revised papers<br>
- 15 Oct 2012: publication of special issue<br>
<br>
<br>
Please pass this Call for Papers on to anyone who could be interested in<br>
submitting an abstract. Thank you very much.<br>
<br>
If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to<br>
contact me.<br>
<br>
Kind regards<br>
<br>
Gerd Scholl<br>
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<br>
Dr Gerd Scholl<br>
Head of Research Field Ecological Consumption<br>
Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW)<br>
Potsdamer Str. 105<br>
10785 Berlin<br>
Germany<br>
Tel. <a href="tel:%2B49%20%2830%29%20884594-20" value="+493088459420" target="_blank">+49 (30) 884594-20</a><br>
Fax <a href="tel:%2B49%20%2830%29%208825439" value="+49308825439" target="_blank">+49 (30) 8825439</a><br>
<a href="mailto:gerd.scholl@ioew.de" target="_blank">gerd.scholl@ioew.de</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ioew.de" target="_blank">www.ioew.de</a><br>
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