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JITP-2010
“The Politics of Open Source”
May 6-7, 2010 - Amherst, Massachusetts
Full Paper Submission Due Date: January 10, 2010
AThe Politics of Open Source is the 2nd annual thematic conference organized by the Journal of Information Technology and Politics (JITP). The conference seeks to examine a range of political issues tied to the free and open source movement(s) including, but not limited to, open source and democratic engagement, government adoption policies, interoperability and open standards, political mobilization, regulation, and the digital divide. The Program Committee encourages both disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of open source and welcomes international perspectives and research exploring open source in non-traditional domains. A complete call for papers is available at www.umass.edu/jitp.
Keynote Speakers:
- Eric von Hippel (MIT)
- Cristopher M. Kelty (UCLA)
- Clay Johnson (Sunlight Labs)
Paper Submissions
Authors are invited to prepare and submit to JITP a manuscript following one
of the six submission formats by January 10, 2010. These formats include
research papers, policy viewpoints, workbench notes, review essays, book
reviews, and papers on teaching innovation. The goal is to produce a special
issue, or double issue, of JITP with a wide variety of approaches to the
broad theme of "The Politics of Open Source."
Program Committee
M.V. Lee Badgett, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Paul M.A. Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology
Deborah Bryant, Oregon State University Open Source Lab
Andrea Calderaro, European University Institute
Mark Cassell, Kent State University
Edward Cherlin, Earth Treasury
Gabriella Coleman, New York University
Doug Downham, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Robert English, Daystar Computing & University of Massachusetts Amherst
Joseph Feller, University College Cork
Jelena Karanovic, Rutgers University
Dave Karpf, University of Pennsylvania/Miller Center for Public Affairs
Jeremy Hunsinger, Virginia Tech
Andrea Kavanaugh, Virginia Tech
Jose Marichal, California Lutheran University
Jens Hardings Perl, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst, co-chair
Stuart Shulman, University of Massachusetts Amherst, co-chair
Megan Squire, Elon University
Krishna Ravi Srinivas, Research Information System For Developing Nations
Louis Suarez-Potts, Sun Microsystems, Inc. & OpenOffice.org
Anas Tawileh, Cardiff University & Meedan.net
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Andrea Calderaro
Department of Social and Political Sciences
European University Institute
Italy
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