Call for Special Issue Papers: Perspectives of Social Informatics

As was stated in (Smutny & Vehovar, 2020): “Research activities related to social informatics are expanding, even as community fragmentation, topical dispersion, and methodological diversity continue to increase. Specifically, the different understandings of social informatics in regional communities have strong impacts, and each has a different history, methodological grounding, and often a different thematic focus.” Therefore, this special issue would like to present different perspectives on social informatics that arose in the world (see overviews e.g. in Fichman et al., 2015; Fichman & Rosenbaum, 2014; Smutny, 2016; Petrič & Atanasova, 2013). Therefore, the special issue will be divided into two parts that cover the full scope of social informatics. The first part will focus on theoretically oriented articles and the second part on empirically oriented articles. The special issue is also open to articles that have a thematically close research focus (e.g. socio-informatics) and/or use regional terms that can be translated into English as social informatics, e.g. samfunnsinformatikk, sosialinformatikk, sosioinformatikk, sozioinformatik (Wulf et al., 2018), sozialinformatik (Kreidenweis, 2012), социальная информатика (Sokolova, 2018; Kolin, 2015; Kolin, 2011), družboslovna informatika (Vehovar, 2006), 社会情報学 (Kurosu, 2010) and others.


Special issue information
As was stated in (Smutny & Vehovar, 2020): "Research activities related to social informatics are expanding, even as community fragmentation, topical dispersion, and methodological diversity continue to increase. Specifically, the different understandings of social informatics in regional communities have strong impacts, and each has a different history, methodological grounding, and often a different thematic focus." Therefore, this special issue would like to present different perspectives on social informatics that arose in the world (see overviews e.g. in Fichman et al., 2015;Fichman & Rosenbaum, 2014;Smutny, 2016;Petrič & Atanasova, 2013). Therefore, the special issue will be divided into two parts that cover the full scope of social informatics. The first part will focus on theoretically oriented articles and the second part on empirically oriented articles. The special issue is also open to articles that have a thematically close research focus (e.g. socio-informatics) and/or use regional terms that can be translated into English as social informatics, e.g. samfunnsinformatikk, sosialinformatikk, sosioinformatikk, sozioinformatik (Wulf et al., 2018), sozialinformatik (Kreidenweis, 2012), социальная информатика (Sokolova, 2018;Kolin, 2015;Kolin, 2011), družboslovna informatika (Vehovar, 2006), 社会情報学 (Kurosu, 2010) and others.

Theoretically oriented papers on social informatics
We welcome the perspectives of scholars (researchers, academics) from different regions on social informatics and its historical roots, current research and issues, future directions, methodological approaches and regional institutionalization. We particularly encourage authors to use regional (non-English) literature when they describe their regional approach or school of thought (does not apply to English speaking regions).

Empirically oriented papers relevant to social informatics
We prefer a broad international view of social informatics research that connects, at an interdisciplinary level, informatics (especially computer and information science and information systems) and the social sciences. Therefore, suitable topics for empirically oriented manuscripts include, but are not limited to, following: We encourage authors to use social informatics literature as a theoretical basis or starting-point for their research or perspective. The References section of this Call for papers provides a list of recommended conceptually focused sources.

About Acta Informatica Pragensia journal
Acta Informatica Pragensia (ISSN 1805-4951) is a peer-reviewed journal on social and business aspects of informatics. It covers mainly the theory, application and management of information systems, as well as interactions between information and communication technologies and people. All articles are published in DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS. The journal has NO CHARGE for article publication. All accepted manuscripts have free professional English proofreading.

Notes for prospective authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page. When you are submitting a manuscript, please select the "Special issue" option in "Section". If you have any suggestions or questions regarding the subject matter, please contact special issue editor Zdenek Smutny (zdenek.smutny@vse.cz).
Before submitting your paper, please make sure you carefully read the instructions to authors. The journal has no strict formatting requirements on submission. There is no restriction on the length of manuscripts. Accepted articles will be immediately published on the journal website with digital object identifier (DOI) prior to the release of the special issue.

Important dates
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2021 Notification to authors within three weeks.
Special issue will be published in December 2021.

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