CfP (manuscript): Special issue on Participatory and Social Media – Technologies, Business and Management, IJAMC, InderScience Publishers

Call for Contributions

MindTrek 2011

Participatory and Social Media – Technologies, Business and Management

Special issue for International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC), InderScience Publishers

Guest editors

Artur Lugmayr, Heljä Franssila, and Imed Hammouda

Introduction

This special issue for International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC) is one of the outcomes of the Academic Mindtrek Conference 2011. The aim of this issue is to reflect upon, examine and review the use of contemporary media technologies in various contexts. The special issue will include contributions from all the three tracks of the conference: social media, ambient and ubiquitous media, and digital games, and papers that contribute to business or related issues. The contributors are challenged to evaluate and explicate the increasingly divers practices the new technologies spawn and the environments that for their part define the media use, especially focusing on media business, media management, media communication, and media process level. More information about the journal can be found on: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijamc

Submission Guidelines

The special issue candidates have been selected (but not restriced) among the papers presented at the Academic Mindtrek Conference 2011. While the contributions can be based on the existing work the contributors are asked to add at least 50% of new content to the manuscript. Submissions should fulfill the following requirements:

• the manuscript should contain between 5000-7000 words in 12ppt, single-spaced, left-justified
• each manuscript should at least contain 30% additional material than the original paper and has to follow the copyright limitations of IJAMC
• more detailed information on the submission guidelines can be found on: http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31 and http://www.inderscience.com/www/authorethics.pdf
• several articles (including manuscript, copyright forms, figures, images, short bio) should be submitted as one single zip file on: http://www.tut.fi/emmi/Submissions/2011MindTrekSI/
• please make sure that you use the submission category “MindTrek 2011 Submission for IJAMC” / MT 2011 IJAMC
• be aware that the final decision if your manuscript gets published or not will be based on the review of your article! From the potential 10 paper candidates, a maximum of 6 papers (exceptionally 7) will be published in the final journal

Timeline

• 9^th September 2012: notification to agree to submit a journal paper (please signup with the openconf tool with a tentative title, list of authors, and brief abstract)
• 14^th October 2012: submission of journal article for review
• 14^th November 2012: review results to authors and final decision
• 5^th December 2012: submission of final articles

The schedule is tight but if we succeed in submitting the papers in schedule the special issue will be published in early 2013. The publisher is ultimately responsible for the schedule.

The journal

IJAMC is a refereed scholarly journal that provides an open forum for researchers, academics, engineers, and service providers in multimedia, particularly new media and communications protocols. It focuses on the role of new media and communication technologies as the knowledge infrastructure and the effect of representing information in various formats according to quality of service and quality of experience. IJAMC aims to provide state of the art knowledge in all aspects of advance multimedia communications technology. A special emphasis is given to interdisciplinary research. http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=67#objectives

Contact

In case of questions, please contact Artur Lugmayr, artur.lugmayr@tut.fi, +358 40 821 0558