The new online journal Re-public invites contributions for its upcoming special issue entitled “Wiki politics”.

See below for details.

We remind our readers that we collate material on politics in a special area of our Wiki (separate from the other category on governance). This will also give access to our specialized tags in Delicious.

Call for Papers

The democratic promise of the Internet has remained partly unfulfilled. It is still doubtful how the use of new collaborative tools can transform the ways politics are practiced and how the increasing prospects for larger political participation can result to the emergence of active citizens. Perhaps, it is essential to start from the concrete: Wiki politics is a concept that encompasses existing practices which instantly give birth to new democratic forms. They produce a particular form of political participation -horizontal and equitable- which operates on the basis of the principles of decentralisation and openness. The issue aims to explore the openings that the concept of the ‘wiki politics’ presents for democratic theory and practice. Possible topics include:

 Horizontal forms of politics
 technologies of cooperation
 self-organizing networks
 collective intelligence
 wikis, new identities, new collectivities
 wikis and political campaigns
 wikifying knowledge

Essays should be approximately 1.000 words long.

We will also publish journalistic pieces or reports of shorter length.

Please submit contributions in any electronic format to:

phatzopoulos AT re-public.gr

Deadline for articles: 28 February 2007

For more information, see www.re-public.gr/en/