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Hi Athina, Maurizio, all

Thanks for offers of help, appreciated!

@Athina
Regarding the selection of reviewers: I asked two people on the list if they would like to review a submission, but they did not respond. I argued before that public calls which go out to “everyone and no-one” may not work so well because people may not want to discuss their availability publicly. 

See: http://www.oekonux.org/journal/list/archive/msg00327.html

In addition people may not read all emails to this list. So best practice would be a) public call for reviewers via the list followed by b) editor contacts reviewers directly, this is where we are at now.

In terms of the process itself you raise an interesting issue. So far we have signals which are really made for the final released version:

http://www.oekonux.org/journal/list/archive/msg00304.html

Normally some of the preliminary reviewing would be done on-list, collectively (in particular point 1 below). But in this case as we are practising in-house  the texts are being reviewed only by the reviewers. 

I had not thought of length limits, not sure if they are necessary?

In terms of questions here are some, adapted from what a journal I sometimes review for asks (some may recognize the questions):

1. Is this manuscript appropriate for Critical Studies in Peer Production? If not, can you suggest another journal that might be more appropriate?

2. Is the subject matter relevant?

3. Is the treatment of the subject matter intellectually interesting? Are there citations or bodies of literature you think are essential to which the author has not referred?

4. Are there any noticeable problems with the author’s means of validating assumptions or making judgments?

5. Is the article well written?

6. Are there portions of the article that you recommend be shortened, excised or expanded?

If you or anyone wants to comment on these, please do so over the next week so we can then proceed.

@ Maurizio
The texts on ANT are not research papers but opinion pieces and so (in my mind) do not need to meet the same standards of peer reviewing outlined above, which are for research pieces. This does not mean that they cannot be commented on, or challenged – more on them later, still waiting for my proposed revisions to the second one to come back..

cheers,

Mathieu

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From: Maurizio Teli <maurizio maurizioteli.eu>
Date: Monday, May 3, 2010 3:25 pm
Subject: Re: [jox] reviewing in practice
To: journal oekonux.org


Hi Mathieu, hi all,

I will be very glad to help too. 

Unfortunately since Hull I haven't been able to catch up, but 
things are
going to slow down a little bit starting in the two weeks, so I 
will be
extremely happy to review the Johan and Nate pieces, as well as 
writingsomething else in that stream (I refer to ANT in my work)

Best

Maurizio

Il giorno lun, 03/05/2010 alle 11.40 +0100, Athina Karatzogianni ha
scritto:

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Hi Mathieu and all

Nice work, looking forward to the assignment of reviewers, I d 

be happy to

help, did you set a word limit for the reviewer (for example 

500-800-1000

words) and a final structure of how that would be done (I am 

referring to

the two-tier structure and the idiosyncratic character of the 

journal)? it d

help to have a finalised template for reviewers to follow, 

some kind of

instructions which explain the practical elements of this and 

also a brief

explanation of the ideology behind it beyond referencing. If 

you have done

that, I ve been on the site it wasnt clear to me, can you 

resend the link to

follow for reviewing when/if you assign reviewers? I was also 

lost as to how

reviwers are assigned, do people express interest on a 

particular piece?


Sorry if you have answered all this, I might seem out of touch 

with this,

its been a really busy last couple of months

Thanks

athina


On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Mathieu ONeil 

<mathieu.oneil anu.edu.au>wrote:> 

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Hi all

After a period of regrouping and latency, get ready for a 

burst of

activity. I will shortly post a proposal for the journal 

site architecture,

hope yall like it.

But first, some informations.

Someone we met in Hull and Amsterdam is Nate Tkacz, who was 

one of the

organisers of the CPOV conference. As a result a dialogue 

started between

Johan Soderbergh and Nate on the politics of that strand of 

research known

as Actor-Network Theory (ANT). I am pleased to report that 

this dialogue has

solidified into two excellent short pieces. I am thinking of 

writing a

follow-up. These will soon be posted to the site for 

comment. They will be

for our "opinion" section so no need to formally peer review 

them. Nate

expressed an interest in joining us and after considering 

the enthusiasm he

put into this exchange I invited him to join our SC. So, 

welcome to our

newest member!

I ran into another CPOV organizer, Johanna Niesyto yesterday 

at a

conference in Paris and she reminded me of our invitation to 

them to write a

conference report. We decided the best way to do this would 

be to determine

a series of set questions (what did you try to achieve, best 

moment, etc)

that could then be asked to any other conference organizer 

for our "report"

section (1000 words max).
I just invited her to join the list, hopefully she will be 

interested,> > otherwise we will discuss here and I will tell her.


Re. research papers I still have to formally ask reviewers. 

This is top of

my list. Sorry for delay.

Re. style for the journal I am leaning towards a more 

minimal approach. In

part this is due to seeing one too many super-slick powerpoint
presentations. Ultimately I find all the super-slick 

animations distracting.

We need it to be clean and striking. For the homepage I'm 

thinking all white

background with black and one extra colour text only. Small 

font. For

article space something like First Monday would be fine. 

Ultimately the

content is what will make this worth coming back to.

Thats all for now,
cheers,

Mathieu




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