[AISWorld] CFP: Special Issue: Global Online Communication

[Kirk St.Amant]

Call for Papers: Special Issue: Global Online Communication

Global online communication has traditionally focused on adaptations
to currency, time, and translation. While this triad is important to
consider for a global audience, they amount to somewhat superficial
adaptations. Instead, internationalization experts are increasingly
concerned with how best to rethink the context of online information
in respect to deep cultural factors. Much of this research is rooted
in applied linguistics, information science, and social psychology.

Global online communication problems amount to some of the most
difficult to solve in information technology, especially in light of
different political, economic, religious, and cultural values.
Examples of these problems include, but are not limited to, innovative
social media technologies, information overload, crowdsourcing, and
proprietary versus open-source solutions. Such sociocultural
complexities may be found across a wide range of information systems.
While emerging technologies have improved the opportunity for people
from different cultures to share enormous amounts of information, such
communications come at acost. This new area of global online
communication provides not only many challenges, but also many
rewards.

Appropriate papers will examine global online communication from a
large number of perspectives. Such topics may include social media
across cultures, exchanging electronic information around the world,
internationalizing and localizing information systems, designing
knowledge bases for different countries and cultures, developing and
deploying culturally sensitive online research methodologies,
conducting online business in a global market, delivering digital
health and medical information to every corner of the globe, and the
access and use of open-source software in a wide range of
applications.
The journal welcome papers from both theoretical and applied
perspectives. Proposals (up to 500 words) for research papers, short
best practices pieces*, and tutorials are due by November 15th, 2010.
Review criteria can be found on the Journal’s website at www.rpcg.org.
Proposals should be sent as an email attachment toglobal.jrpc
g at gmail.com. Authors will be notified of acceptance by December 1st,
2010.

* We strongly encourage practitioners to submit best practices pieces
on any of the topics identified in this CFP, including related topics.
Best practices describe the training strategies, approaches, or
methods that work in a particular situation or environment. What has
worked, and why? What has not worked, and what could work better?
Authors may use the following optional framework for best practices
pieces: title, description, methods used, results, technologies used,
and lessons learned. While the proposal and review process is the same
for research papers, tutorials, and best practices pieces, final
manuscripts for best practices should be shorter: approximately 1000
to 3000 words in length.

About the Journal
The Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization
publishes articles on the theory, practice, and teaching of technical
and professional communication in critical global and intercultural
contexts such as business, manufacturing, environment, information
technology, and others. As a global initiative, the Journal welcomes
manuscripts with diverse approaches and contexts of research, but
manuscripts are to be submitted in English and grounded in relevant
theory and appropriate research methods. The Journal is peer reviewed
with an editorial board consisting of experienced researchers and
practitioners from over 20 countries. The Journal is free or “open
access,” using PKP open source software and housed at East Carolina
University. The first edition is planned for September 2010, and it
will be published thereafter on a quarterly basis. For more
information, see www.rpcg.org.