CFP: Social Science Computer Review (fwd)

[Richard Plant]

Hello all:

This has just arrived from Michael Carley. I thought I would pass it on
with an urging that we make sure there are some contributions from theatre
research.

Richard Plant
Dept of Drama, Queen's University
and
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, 
University of Toronto

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:15:52 -0500
From: "Michael J. Carley" <mjcarley at aspp.hssfc.ca>
Reply-To: owner-publiforum at magmacom.com
To: publiforum at magma.ca
Subject: CFP: Social Science Computer Review

The Social Science Computer Review is now soliciting papers for its
annual "state of the art" review/overview essays covering computing
and information technology in each social science discipline and
allied fields such as research methodology and geographic information
systems. Manuscripts are approximately 25 ms. pages and will be due
at the end of the summer.

The website, with style guide and tables of contents, is at

http://hcl.chass.ncsu.edu/sscore/sscore.htm. Sample issues may be
obtained from jsamples at sagepub.com. SSCORE is a peer-reviewed
publication now in its 16th year of publication.

Advance table of contents for Fall 1998:


Social Science Computer Review
Vol. 16, No. 3
Fall, 1998

Special Issue: ISTAS =9197: Computers and Society at a Time of Sweeping
Change

Introduction / Joseph R. Herkert

Developing Ethical Practices to Minimize Computer Misuse / Shalini
Kesar and Simon  Rogerson

World Information Flows and the Impact of New Technology: Is There a
Need for  International Communication Policy and Regulation? /
Kerry Ferguson

The Co-Evolution of Society and Multimedia Technology:
Issues in Predicting the Future  Innovation and Use of a Ubiquitous
Technology / James Stewart and   Robin Williams

Ethics, Law, and Information Technology: The Transformative Role of
Rhetoric /  Brian M. O'Connell

Virtual Communities and Social Capital / Anita Blanchard and Tom Horan

News and Notes / G. David Garson

Software Reviews
Methodologists' Toolchest / Thomas J. Sullivan
ActivStats / G. David Garson
Intervista WorldChart / Reviewed by staff
Painter 5 / Erik Norvelle and Edwin Carpenter


Book Reviews
The Governance of Cyberspace: Politics, Technology, and Global
Restructuring, by Brian D. Loader, ed. (reviewed by Cecilia G.
Manrique)

High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, by Peter Ludlow
(reviewed by James R. Simmons)

Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic of
Virtual Reality Technology, by Ralph Schroeder (reviewed by Myron
Orleans)

Computer: A History of the Information Machine, by Martin
Campbell   (Reviewed by Tulio E. Ortiz)

QASS Log Linear Monographs: A
Computer-Focused Review

Future special issues will cover geographic information systems, and
will cover equity issues in computing.


Michael J. Carley
Director - Directeur
Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme - Programme d'aide à l'édition savante
151 Slater, #410
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5H3
(613) 234-1269 x353 - FAX 236-4853
mjcarley at aspp.hssfc.ca; mcarley at ccs.carleton.ca
WWW: http://aspp.hssfc.ca