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Call for Papers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garson@social.chass.ncsu.edu)
Fri Mar 27 20:22:10 1998

Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:03:19 -0600
From: Garson@social.chass.ncsu.edu
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: "\"G.David Garson <\"G.David Garson" <garson@social.chass.ncsu.edu>"@ncsu.edu>"@ncsu.edu

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The Social Science Computer Review is now soliciting papers for its
annual "state of the art" review/overview essays covering computing
and information technology in each social science discipline and
allied fields such as research methodology and geographic information
systems. Manuscripts are approximately 25 ms. pages and will be due
at the end of the summer.

The website, with style guide and tables of contents, is at
http://hcl.chass.ncsu.edu/sscore/sscore.htm. Sample issues may be
obtained from jsamples@sagepub.com. SSCORE is a peer-reviewed
publication now in its 16th year of publication.

Advance table of contents for Fall 1998:


Social Science Computer Review
Vol. 16, No. 3
Fall, 1998

Special Issue: ISTAS =9197: Computers and Society at a Time of Sweeping
Change

 Introduction / Joseph R. Herkert

 Developing Ethical Practices to Minimize Computer Misuse / Shalini
 Kesar and Simon  Rogerson

 World Information Flows and the Impact of New Technology: Is There a
 Need for  International Communication Policy and Regulation? /
Kerry Ferguson

The Co-Evolution of Society and Multimedia Technology:
Issues in Predicting the Future  Innovation and Use of a Ubiquitous
Technology / James Stewart and   Robin Williams

 Ethics, Law, and Information Technology: The Transformative Role of
 Rhetoric /  Brian M. O'Connell

Virtual Communities and Social Capital / Anita Blanchard and Tom Horan

News and Notes / G. David Garson

Software Reviews
 Methodologists' Toolchest / Thomas J. Sullivan
 ActivStats / G. David Garson
 Intervista WorldChart / Reviewed by staff
 Painter 5 / Erik Norvelle and Edwin Carpenter


Book Reviews
 The Governance of Cyberspace: Politics, Technology, and Global
 Restructuring, by Brian D. Loader, ed. (reviewed by Cecilia G.
 Manrique)

High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, by Peter Ludlow
 (reviewed by James R. Simmons)

Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic of
 Virtual Reality Technology, by Ralph Schroeder (reviewed by Myron
 Orleans)

 Computer: A History of the Information Machine, by Martin
 Campbell   (Reviewed by Tulio E. Ortiz)

QASS Log Linear Monographs: A
 Computer-Focused Review



Future special issues will cover geographic information systems, and
will cover equity issues in computing.


Contact information:
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