Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 369.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 20:11:53 +0000
From: Heejin Lee <Heejin.Lee@brunel.ac.uk>
Subject: Special issue on time and IT
Special Issue of The Information Society
"Time and Information Technology"
Edited by Heejin Lee and Edgar A. Whitley
The Information Society (TIS) invites authors to submit papers for a
special issue on the topic of "Time and Information Technology".
CALL FOR PAPERS
Traditional notions of time and space are being challenged by information
technology based phenomena such as the internet, globalisation of business
and virtual work. Whilst it is easy to simply describe the temporal effects
of these changes in terms of everything being faster, in practice the
changes are much more fundamental. Indeed, a useful comparison can be made
with the wholesale transformation of time perception and time discipline
that arose when mechanical clocks were introduced into societies that had
previously based their notions of temporality on the seasonal passage of
the sun.
Thus, it is possible to consider time not simply as an objective,
clock-time based phenomenon, which is typically used as a constant or an
independent variable in studies. Instead, time can be viewed as a
subjective, socially constructed phenomenon which can be studied as a
dependent variable.
This special issue of TIS hopes to further research and discussion on time
and information technology by publishing papers on aspects of this theme
from diverse viewpoints, in particular, from information systems,
sociology, philosophy, computer science and organisation studies. Topics of
interest include but are by no means limited to:
information technology and the social construction of time
virtuality and temporality
philosophy of time and information technology
polychronicity, monochronicity and information technology
ethnographic studies of temporal behaviour in cyberspace
temporal implications of IT/IS generated organisational change
the internet and new time keeping systems
history of time, horology and information technology
the politics of time with relevance to information technology
time and communication behaviour
electronic commerce and consumers' time
discourses of time (saving/gaining time, historical and future
orientations, etc.)
Papers of empirical research (either qualitative or quantitative) are
welcomed as are theoretical papers that provide new insights or state of
the art reviews that cover diverse disciplines.
As is common practice with special issues for The Information Society,
authors are invited to nominate up to four reviewers who are knowledgeable
about the topic (authors, however, should avoid any nominations that
involve a conflict of interest). Nominations should include name, complete
address, telephone, fax, and electronic mail address.
We encourage prospective authors to become familiar with TIS and to discuss
possible articles with the Special Issue editors before they submit.
Manuscript guidelines and a list of the titles and abstracts of articles
published in TIS can be found on the journal's web site
(http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS/).
Please send your manuscript, as a word or .rtf document, formatted
according to the TIS guidelines
(http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS/basic_info/tisinst.html) to the first
editor:
Heejin Lee, Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel
University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom, ph: +
44-1895-274000, fax: + 44-1895-251686, Email: heejin.lee@brunel.ac.uk
Edgar Whitley, Department of Information Systems, London School of
Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, ph + 44-207-955-7410, fax
44-207-955-7385, Email: e.a.whitley@lse.ac.uk
Feel free to correspond with the special issue editors if you have any
questions or are planning to submit an article.
The deadline for accepting manuscripts for consideration for publication is
June 26, 2000. All manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of
referees, and those accepted will be published in the special issue.
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