JVWR Special Edition Call for Papers: Government and Virtual Worlds

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research – http://jvwresearch.org

Special Edition: Government and Virtual Worlds

Guest editors:
Paulette Robinson, PhD
Michael Piller, PhD
Information Resources Management College
National Defense University
Co-Leaders—Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds

The government has been increasingly interested in creating and using digital collaborative environments to interact within agencies, across agencies and with the citizens.  The current Obama administration has provided a more open and inviting culture for pursing this collaboration.  As one of the responses, there is a growing interest in the government to use virtual worlds (VW) to collaborate in government through 1) robust information delivery environments for citizens, 2) meetings, conferences, events, 3)  education and training, 4) rapid design prototyping, and 5) analytical individual and collaborative work spaces.

This special issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR) will highlight government virtual world projects, collaborations and research. Submissions that address projects will describe the project, challenges/solutions, benefits to the government and citizens, measures of success, lessons learned, and the future projections for the project. We welcome participation from a broad range of researchers and practitioners using a variety of research and methodological approaches.  The top three pieces included in this special issue will be invited to present at the 2010 Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds Conference.  We also welcome submissions in the form of think pieces and interactive online exhibits with accompanying detailed descriptions, and other forms of scholarship.  See the JVWR website for details: http://www.jvwresearch.org/about.html.

Manuscripts should be no more than 10,000 words (including notes and references) and conform to APA style.  All papers will be subject to peer review following submission.

Timeline:

November 20, 2009:           500 word proposals with full contact  information and a biographical note (up to 75 words) on each author emailed to guest editors.
May 2010:                             Publication Date

We also welcome submissions in the form of think pieces and interactive online exhibits with accompanying detailed descriptions, and other forms of scholarship.

Questions and submissions can be emailed to both Paulette Robinson (robinsonp@ndu.edu) and Michael Piller (pillerm@ndu.edu).

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research – http://jvwresearch.org