Calls for Papers (special): International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD)

Special Issue On: Constructing Online Culture through Information Communication Technologies

Submission Due Date
7/15/2013

Guest Editors
Dr. Gulsun Eby and Dr. T. Volkan Yuzer

Introduction
This special issue emphasizes diverse online cultural backgrounds, poor sharing e-resources, and inadequate e-facilities as well as underpaid e-labors. In this context, online culture refers to ideas of social justice models applied to a complete online society based on not only giving digital individuals and groups’ fair action, but also sharing the benefits of free online society. On the other hand, this issue focuses on what Information Communication Technology means and how diverse models can be integrated online societies through multicultural approach. Based on this understanding, a radical approach is reflected in which human rights and equity are manifested in the digital lives of people from every level of society. These distinguished and careful analyses are the most important critics of online digitals designs, and provide unprejudiced point of views of the progress for online communication designs models against several digital opponents. In this context, this issue critically discusses a digital global world where all participants of this online society, regardless of their diverse backgrounds, have indispensable human rights and equal access to their community's prosperities and resources.

Objective
The aim of this special issue is to define, discuss, and examine different approaches, methods, and techniques for designing, prototyping, implementing, and evaluating information communication technologies to construct online culture. In this case, this special issue focuses on several diverse forms of Information Communication Technologies in support of Human Development whereas online culture scrutinizes diverse perspectives and also discuss how human rights can be integrated for in that context at a global, national, and local level.

Recommended Topics
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Agriculture and online collaborative works
• Applied communication
• Computers and education
• Distance education
• Global universal design
• Human computer interaction
• Information communication technologies
• Information communication technology-based collaborative works
• Information technologies and engineering
• Interface design
• Medicine, health, and information communication technologies
• Online culture
• Online learning
• Personal information management
• Philosophy and technology
• Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics distance education
• Society and online interactions
• Sociology and networks

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Constructing Online Culture through Information Communication Technologies on or before July 15, 2013. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind; peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.

All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
Dr. Gulsun Eby
Guest Editor                    
E-mail: gkurubac@anadolu.edu.tr        

Dr. T. Volkan Yuzer
Guest Editor                    
E-mail: vyuzer@anadolu.edu.tr