Call for Papers: M/C 'collaborate' Issue

I've recently posted this call for papers for the 'collaborate' issue of M/C Journal, which I will edit with my friend and colleague Donna Lee Brien at the University of New England:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 12 January 2006

M/C - Media and Culture
is calling for contributors to the 'collaborate' issue of
M/C Journal

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C Journal is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal.

To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out our Website, which contains all the issues released so far, at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>.

To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/submission.php>.

Call for Papers: 'collaborate'
Edited by Donna Lee Brien and Axel Bruns

Collaboration is a highly desirable and, increasingly, often a mandated element in many modes of Australian (and international) research, creative and business practice - and a factor on which successful and innovative outcomes, as well as funding, often depend. In many cases, however, participants in collaborative projects have a limited understanding of collaboration (in theory and practice) beyond that of a general concept, tossed about with nods of approval but rarely unpacked. In other fields of DIY content production, from open source software development to the large- scale distributed collaboration on projects such as the Wikipedia, collaboration often happens perhaps even more intuitively, but nonetheless produces results which can usually stand up to serious professional scrutiny. So how, and why, do we collaborate?

This issue of M/C Journal will feature case study articles from the point of view of practitioners or researchers, innovative research about collaborative practice, examinations of authorship credits and copyright issues in collaborative work, including collaborative interventions like the creative commons, and wider insights into the apparent human need for interaction, collaboration, and what World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners- Lee has called 'intercreativity'. We are interested in best-practice examples of successful collaborations across communities, disciplines, media forms, space and time. We would like to build new definitions and feature work on how the various stakeholders (individuals, enthusiasts, artists, university/research institutions, industry & non-profit organisations) successfully find each other and build working partnerships.

Not all collaborative ventures are successful, however, and so we are also calling for examinations of 'what went wrong' to make a useful contribution to this issue.

Send all enquiries and articles of 1000-1500 words to the editors at collaborate@journal.media-culture.org.au.

Article deadline: 6 March 2006
Issue release date: 3 May 2006

M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed.

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Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2006:

'street': article deadline 1 May 2006, release date 28 June 2006
'free': article deadline 26 June 2006, release date 23 August 2006
'filth': article deadline 21 August 2006, release date 18 October 2006
'jam': article deadline 16 October 2006, release date 13 December 2006

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M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>. 

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M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>.
All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there.

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