Of possible interest to IRE associates and colleagues:

*CALL FOR PAPERS *

/Special Issue: Trust and Privacy in Our Networked World/

"Smart networks” are becoming part of our daily life. For example, Web 2.0 and novel infrastructure networks, such as the “Smart grid,” publish and share semantically annotated data. As a result, machines are able to understand and process such data in order to enhance and increase the tasks that can be performed on today's Web. Such networks have become more and more “social” – i.e., information contained in these networks no longer consists merely of data about business services and products, but it increasingly includes information about people. Although smart networks promise new exciting business opportunities, their general goal of combining distributed semantically annotated knowledge raises controversial issues affecting both trust and privacy. These questions include:

·        Are the sources trustworthy?
·        How can I be sure that the information is valid?
·        How can I ensure that my disclosed personal data are not misused?
·        How and when can I share personal data with trusted people only?

A special journal issue entitled “Trust and Privacy in Our Networked World,” to be published in /Information /(the new Open Access Journal of Information Science, Information Technology, Data, Knowledge and Communication), examines these and related questions.  This journal (ISSN 2078-2489 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/), is published by MDPI (Molecular Diversity Preservation International) in Basel, Switzerland. The special issue will include papers that consider a wide range of topics and issues affecting both trust and privacy – e.g., from questions about conceptual and theoretical aspects of (the nature) of trust and privacy to practical and technical concerns regarding how both privacy and trust can be maintained in light of our current technological infrastructure.

On behalf of the Guest Editors of this Special Issue, Dr. Dieter M. Arnold and Professor Herman T. Tavani, we would like to invite you to contribute a comprehensive review article or a full research paper for peer-review and possible publication. This Special Issue collects both scientific papers and philosophical essays in the area of trust and privacy in smart networks. Thus, we welcome contributions that contain theoretical results as well as present practical examples from daily life. The website for this Special Issue can be found at http://mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/trust-privacy-networked-world/. The deadline for manuscript submission is 30 November 2010. You may send your manuscripts now or by the deadline. Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

This Special Issue will be fully Open Access, with Article Processing Charges waived for well prepared manuscripts. However, a fee of 250 CHF may apply if English editing or extensive revisions must be undertaken by the Editorial Office. Open Access is supported by the authors and their institutes. More information is available at http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a manuscript (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/instructions/). Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with copies to the Guest Editors (Dr. Dieter M. Arnold, E-Mail:
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; Prof. Herman T. Tavani, E-Mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and the Editor-in-Chief (Dr. Mark Burgin, E-Mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). The subject title of the message should be "Manuscript for Special Issue on "Trust and Privacy in
Networked World"".

Please note that MDPI publishes several peer-reviewed, Open Access journals listed at http://www.mdpi.com/. The editorial board members, including several Nobel Laureates (http://www.mdpi.com/about/nobelists/), are all leading active scholars. All these journals maintain rapid, yet rigorous, peer-review, manuscript handling and editorial processes. All of our
journals have increased their impact factors, see the editorial "Full Open Access Journals Have Increased Impact Factors", http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/14/6/2254/.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Dieter M. Arnold and Herman T. Tavani

Following up on Online Interviews in Real Time, Janet Salmon has issued a call for cases for a new collection: Cases in Online Interview Research. This new work will advance the theoretical and conceptual foundations of online interview research. This edited volume will include a very selective collection of cases from researchers who have conducted structured to unstructured online interviews using a variety of qualitative methodologies and mixed methods approaches with data collection from text-based, multi-channel meeting, videoconference and immersive technologies. Contributors will be asked to construct the chapter in the manner of a case study, in order to maximize its instructional potential. Six to eight cases will be included in the book.

Cases in Online Interview Research will offer significant, multi-disciplinary insight into emerging e- research approaches. The structure of the book will model critical thinking and review in an effort to stimulate further discussion.

View the full call and submission requirements here [PDF].

The International Journal of Internet Research Ethics (IJIRE) seeks papers from researchers describing best ethical practices in the investigation of online communities. This special issue, edited by Aleks Krotoski, aims to create a compendium of case studies and theoretical frameworks which future scholars will reference when designing their own analyses of populations and practices in social networking sites, weblogs, listservs, online games, video sharing sites, virtual worlds and other Web environments that demonstrate evidence of community processes.

The special issue seeks to include submissions that introduce extensions to existing theories - including new frameworks for approaching the ethical
issues that emerge in online communities and novel applications of existing offline ethics frameworks - and examples of best practice - including case studies of successful ethical solutions, both qualitative and quantitative research approaches, issues associated with international ethics practices, and changes to ethical approaches over the short- and the long-term.

While all forms of scholarship and research are welcome, the special issue will feature theoretically and empirically grounded study in the social or behavioural sciences.

To view the full PDF, including submission guidelines and suggested topics, click here.