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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Official
publication of the Information Resources Management Association</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/">www.igi-global.com/</a><span style=""> IJEP</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Editor-in-Chief<b style="">: </b>Celia Romm Livermore</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Published:
Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)</span></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">International Editorial Review Board:<span style=""> </span></span></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Advisory
board</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ada
Scupola, Carol Saunders, Christine Williams, Lynne Markus, Philip Ein-Dor,
Prashant Palvia, Robert Davison, <span style="">Ron
Rice, </span></span>Shailendra Palvia<span class="cxpicnamecxpicnamel"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Shezaf
Rafaeli, Steven Gordon, Symour (Sy) Goodman</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Associate
editors</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Anastasia
Deligiaouri, Anastasia Kavada, Andrea Calderaro, Arik Ragowsky, Balaji
Rajagopalan, Carlo Bellini, Cathy Urquhart, Changchit Chuleeporn, </span>Cherie
Stachman,<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Christopher Reddick, Dave Oliver,
Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, Ezendu Ariwa, Isaac Mostovicz, Itir Akdogan, Jack
Quarter, Jens Hoff, Joan Francesc Fondevila i Gascón, Joy Peluchette, Karine
Barzilai-Nahon, Katherine Karl, Katherine Ognyanova, Lakshmi Iyer, Laurie
Schatzberg, Linda Coleman, Lorenzo Mosca, Luciano Paccagnella, Marick Masters,
Myles Stern, Nada Kakabadse, Nava Pliskin, Naveed Baqir, Nico Carpentier,
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Pierluigi Rippa, Pippa Norris, Ramesh Srinivasan, Sandy
Staples, Stephen Fox, Tim Roberts, Toni Somers, Toru Sakaguchi, Yana Breindl,
Yasmin Ibrahim</span></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">MISSION OF IJEP:</span></b></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
primary objective of the <b style="">International
Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)</b> is to lay the foundations of E-Politics as an
emerging interdisciplinary area of research and practice, as well as, to offer
a venue for publications that focus on theories and empirical research on the
manifestations of E-Politics in various contexts and environments. E-Politcs is
defined as influence attempts facilitated by or related to electronic media or
to the information technology field. As such, it is seen as interdisciplinary,
encompassing areas such as information systems, political science, social
science (psychology, sociology, and cultural studies), security, ethics, law,
management and others. </span></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">RECOMMENDED TOPICS:</span></b></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Topics
to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The politics of the IT function and its
role in organizations</span></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The political
activities of members of the IT function vis-à-vis the rest of the
organization</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Changes in the power
of the IT unit as a function of the diffusion of new technologies</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The strategies used by
members of the IT unit to influence others</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The impact of global
issues such as outsourcing, downsizing, political upheavals, etc. on the
political role played by the IT unit within organizations. </span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The politics of virtual communities </span></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The use of electronic
media for industrial relations and negotiations with employers</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The use of electronic
media for surveillance manipulation and harassment in commercial and
non-commercial environments</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The impact of status
and authority on electronically enabled political maneuvering by
management and the effects of culture, race, and gender on political
activities within and between organizations. </span></li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The political dynamics
of geographically based communities (community informatics)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The political dynamics
of virtual communities of practice, including: learning communities,
customers’ communities, eDating communities, gaming communities, support
group communities, social networking communities, etc. </span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Party politics and social activism</span></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">eVoting and
electronically enabled eGovernment</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The role electronic
media in political campaigns. Including their impact on political debate,
information sharing, political decision making, fund raising, etc. </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">As electronically
enabled party politicking is becoming a global phenomenon, the utilization
of E-Politcs at all levels of governance, including the city, the state,
the country and the global arenas.<span style=""> </span></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SUBMITTING
TO IJEP:</span></b></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Prospective authors should note that only original and
previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST
CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at:</span></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.pdf">http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines
submission.pdf</a> </span></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be
forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal
for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding
acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the
reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to Celia Romm
Livermore at <span style=""><a href="mailto:ak1667@wayne.edu">ak1667@wayne.edu</a>.</span> </span></p>
<p class="htmlbody" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span style="">PUBLISHER:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="">The <b style="">International Journal of
E-Politics </b>is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher
of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and
“Medical Information Science Reference” imprints. For additional information
regarding the publisher, please visit <a href="http://www.igi-pub.com/">www.igi-global.com</a>.
</span></p>
<br clear="all">Celia Romm Livermore (PhD)<br>Editor-in-Chief<br>International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP)<br>School of Business Administration<br>Wayne State University<br>Detroit, MI, 48202, USA<br>E-mail address: <a href="mailto:ak1667@wayne.edu">ak1667@wayne.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://www.igi-global.com/IJEP">www.igi-global.com/IJEP</a><br><br>President Elect<br>Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA)<br><br>