Call for papers
I have extended the call for papers to October 15 for submitting an abstract for a special issue of the Journal Systema: connecting matter, life, culture and technology on the following topic: Media Ecology as a Form of Systems Thinking. I already have 6 papers for the special issue and hope more of you will respond to this call.
I have three goals in mind for this special issue. First I want to acquaint the systems thinking community with media ecology as the understanding the impact of technology and communications media from an ecological perspective is essential for systems thinking. Secondly I want the folks in media ecology to employ systems thinking in their work and this will be the principal focus of the special issue I have in mind. Of course achieving this second goal explicitly will also achieve the first goal tacitly. A third goal is to expand our field of media ecology so that we inform other fields and other fields inform us in media ecology. At our convention in Toronto the view that media ecology needs to become more main stream was expressed a number of times. This project of contributing to a special issue of Systema is a step in the right direction.
Here is what the editor-in-chief of David Rousseau wrote about the possibility of this special issue:
«I think ME is an excellent subject for a special issue of Systema. Media Ecology seems to me fairly well-established as a discipline but still not very well known within the Systems Movement. A special issue of Systema could therefore be valuable for promoting a broader awareness and appreciation of the nature and importance of ME.»
Here is a description of Systema
http://www.systema-journal.org/about/editorialPolicies#focusAndScopeFocus and Scope
Systema: connecting Matter, Life, Culture and Technology is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing original high-quality articles on systems science, thinking and practice.
The aim of Systema is to promote the use of systemic approaches to help foster individual, communal and ecological flourishing by:
Enhancing the self-understanding and unity of the global systems community;
Stimulating significant advances in the systems sciences; and
Promoting the beneficial application of systemic approaches.
The main areas of focus of the journal are:
Development and critique of the philosophical presuppositions of the systems sciences; and the systems weltanschauung.
Advances in systemic insights, methods and applications that
support transdisciplinarity; enable new routes to knowledge; promote flourishing persons, communities and ecologies;
Reports on novel applications of systems approaches; and novel insights deriving from the application of systemic approaches.
The systemic domains and topics covered by Systema in support of these themes include cybernetics, general systems theory, complex adaptive systems, theory of social systems, systems biology, economic systems, technosocial systems, media ecology, systems design, modeling, complexity, network theory,computational and information theory, and systems philosophy.
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Robert K. Logan
Prof. Emeritus – Physics – U. of Toronto
Chief Scientist – sLab at OCAD
http://utoronto.academia.edu/RobertKLogan
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