<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Official publication of the
Information Resources Management Association</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.igi-global.com/</span></a> IJEP</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Editor-in-Chief<b>: </b>Celia Romm
Livermore</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Published: Quarterly (both in Print
and Electronic form)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">MISSION OF IJEP:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The primary objective of the <b>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><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">RECOMMENDED TOPICS:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Topics to be discussed in this
journal include (but are not limited to) the following:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The politics of the IT function and
its role in organizations</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The political activities of members of the IT function
vis-à-vis the rest of the organization</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Changes in the power of the IT unit as a function of
the diffusion of new technologies</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The strategies used by members of the IT unit to
influence others</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The impact of global issues such as outsourcing,
downsizing, political upheavals, etc. on the political role played by the
IT unit within organizations. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The politics of virtual communities </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The use of electronic media for industrial relations
and negotiations with employers</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The use of electronic media for surveillance
manipulation and harassment in commercial and non-commercial environments</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">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><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li></ul>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The political dynamics of geographically based
communities (community informatics)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">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><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Party politics and social activism</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">eVoting and electronically enabled eGovernment</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The role electronic media in political campaigns.
Including their impact on political debate, information sharing, political
decision making, fund raising, etc. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">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><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SUBMITTING TO IJEP:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">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><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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submission.pdf</span></a> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">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 <a href="mailto:ak1667@wayne.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">ak1667@wayne.edu</span></a>. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">PUBLISHER:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The
<b>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/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.igi-global.com</span></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">All inquiries and submissions should
be directed by e-mail to the attention of:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">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" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">ak1667@wayne.edu</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.igi-global.com/IJEP" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.igi-global.com/IJEP</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
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