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Jeff Allen <jeff@elda.fr> forwarded me the following Call for Papers for a special journal isssue on Technical Innovation and Global Business Communication. This call can also be found at <http://www.nmt.edu/~cpc/Call_for_Papers.html>. Note that proposals are due December 1, 1999.

The guest editors of this issue, Jan Ulijn and Charles Campbell, have also put together a background paper on the topic of Technical Innovation and Global Business Communication <http://www.nmt.edu/~cpc/ipcc99.html>, which is an interesting read whether or not you're planning on submitting to the special issue.

Mark

TECHNICAL INNOVATION AND GLOBAL BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

A special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Guest Editors: Jan M. Ulijn (Eindhoven Technical University) and Charles P. Campbell (New Mexico Tech)

The Transactions on Professional Communication invites authors to participate in a special issue examining how technical innovations in communication, particularly the Internet but also videoconferencing and other technologies, are being received and used in business within nations whose cultural tendencies differ from those where the technologies originate.

The technology that makes the world into the global village envisioned by Marshall McLuhan more than 30 years ago now seems to be in place, thanks largely to the Internet and the World Wide Web. Technical innovations in communication technology have been quickly exploited by businesses to expand their reach into new markets. However, not much is yet known about the way this technology is inducing changes in long-standing cultural patterns that prescribe the preferred methods of negotiating business deals. Patterns of communication, to say nothing of values, are deeply rooted in language-culture complexes. Understanding these patterns can perhaps be facilitated by technology. However, technologies impose their own patterns, and we need to know how these patterns interact with established patterns.

Topics

For the special issue of Transactions, we will be looking for contributions that explore topics like the five listed below. For further discussion, see our background paper.

  1. The business and technology perspective: electronic commerce and its implication for a communication model of the human interface
  2. The use of electronic mail and meetings, videoconferencing and the Internet (within a general management setting)
  3. Evidence about preferences and effectiveness within a communication and negotiation setting—electronic or face-to-face?
  4. Studies bringing together, analyzing and assessing other human, cognitive, linguistic, and cultural aspects of the use of computer-mediated communication.
  5. Reports on the impact of communication technologies (especially multimedia, the Internet, and the World-Wide Web) in assisting (or hindering) communicators in designing, writing, producing, and disseminating information in different cultures

We hope the special issue will attract more original contributions to scholarship in this area. In summary, we know that communications technology is changing the world; we want to get a clearer idea of how things change.

Schedule for Special Issue

Submissions

Authors should follow IEEE style--see Instructions for Authors, _Transactions on Professional Communication_ 41 (December 1998): p. 299. Please submit proposals by 1 December 1999; one paper and two electronic copies of the manuscript should be received no later than 1 February 2000 to be considered for the special issue. To submit a manuscript, contact

Dr. Jan M. Ulijn TU EINDHOVEN TEMA 0.42 Postbus 513 5600 MB EINDHOVEN , The Netherlands Tel. 040 - 247 4569; e-mail J.M.Ulijn@tm.tue.nl

Dr. Charles P. Campbell Department of Humanities New Mexico Tech Socorro NM 87801 Tel. 505-835-5284; e-mail cpc@nmt.edu

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