[ox-en] CfP: Openness: Code, Science and Content
- From: geert lovink <geert desk.nl>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:54:35 +0100
FM10 Openness: Code, science and content — Making collaborative
creativity
sustainable
Call for Papers: deadline 6 February 2006
Recent years have seen a strong interest among academics, policy
makers,
activists, business and other practitioners on open collaboration and
access
as a driver of creativity. In some areas, such as free software / open
source, sustainable business models have emerged that are holding their
own
against more traditional, proprietary software industries. In the
sciences,
the notions of open science and open data demonstrate the strong
tradition
of openness in the academic community that, despite its past successes,
is
increasingly under threat. And open access journals and other open
content
provide inspiring examples of collaborative creativity and participatory
access, such as Wikipedia, while still in search of models to ensure
sustainability.
There are clear links between these areas of openness: open content
often looks explicitly towards open source software for business
models, and
open science provides through its history a glimpse of the potential of
openness, how it can work, as well as a warning of the threats it may
face.
Finally, open collaboration is closely linked to access to knowledge
issues,
enabling active participation rather than passive consumption
especially in
developing countries.
Despite these clear links, there has been surprisingly little
thoughtful
analysis of this convergence, or of the real value of the common aspect
of
open collaboration. In particular, while open source software — due to
its
strong impact on business and on bridging the digital divide — has drawn
much attention, it may provide false hopes for the sustainability of
openness in other areas of content that need careful examination. The
conference FM10 Openness: Code, science and content — Making
collaborative
creativity sustainable provides a platform for such analysis and
discussion,
resulting in concrete proposals for sustainable models for open
collaboration in creative domains.
The conference will draw on the experience of First Monday as the
foremost online, peer–reviewed academic journal covering these issues
since
May 1996. Not only has First Monday published numerous papers by leading
scholars on the topics of open collaboration, open access, and open
content
in its various forms, it is itself an example of open collaboration in
practice: for nearly a decade, the journal has been published on a
purely
voluntary basis, with no subscription fees, advertising, sponsorship or
other revenues. The success of First Monday is demonstrated by
thousands of
readers around the world, downloading hundreds of thousands of papers
each
month. This conference celebrates First Monday’s tenth anniversary.
We invite papers for the conference and for a very special issue of
First Monday. These papers will be reviewed by a special conference
editorial committee. Authors of selected papers will be invited to the
conference, scheduled to take place at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, 15–17 May 2006. The conference is supported in part by the
John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (http://www.macfound.org/) and the
Open Society Institute (http://www.soros.org/). Other selected papers
will
be published in a special issue of First Monday, to appear in June 2006.
Papers should address the issues involved in building sustainable
models
for openness in science, software and content. They can examine
technical,
sociological, economic/business and legal issues, and can be conceptual
or
practical in nature. Case studies by practitioners are welcome.
Submitting papers
Proposals for papers for the conference and the special issue can be
sent to First Monday’s Chief Editor, Edward Valauskas by e–mail (ejv
[at]
uic [dot] edu) no later than the first Monday of December 2005 (5
December
2005). You are advised, but not required, to send a paper proposal
before
sending your full paper.
Proposals will be reviewed and contributors will be notified in
December
of the special editorial committeey’s decision.
Completed papers must be received by the first Monday in February
2006
(6 February 2006). This includes papers for which no proposal was
submitted
in advance.
By the first Monday of March 2006 (6 March 2006), notification will
be
sent to those contributors whose papers will be presented at the
conference,
FM10 Openness.
By the first Monday of April (3 April 2005), contributors to the
special
issue in June 2006 will be notified.
Proposals for papers should include the title of the paper, an
abstract,
names, affiliations, and contact information for all authors. Proposals
should be sent by e–mail clearly marked in the subject line as
proposals for
the conference.
Papers for the conference and the special issue should follow the
usual
guidelines for publication in First Monday. These guidelines can be
found at
http://www.firstmonday.org/guidelines.html.
First Monday has a liberal copyright policy. Details are available
at
http://www.firstmonday.org/copy.html.
Questions related to papers for the conference and the special
issue can
be directed to Edward Valauskas by e–mail (ejv [at] uic [dot] edu).
http://firstmonday.org/call.html
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