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 Stuart
Shulman has been named Editor in Chief of the Journal
of Information Technology & Politics, a forum
for policymakers, practitioners, and technology industry
leaders in addition to academics and researchers. The
primary objectives of the journal are to promote a
better understanding of how evolving information technologies
interact with political and governmental processes
and outcomes at many levels, to encourage the development
of governmental and political processes that employ
IT in novel and interesting ways, and to foster the
development of new information technology tools and
theories that can capture, analyze, and report on these
developments. Regular features of JITP will include
research papers, policy viewpoints, articles on teaching
innovation, as well as a special category of submission
called “Workbench Notes,” which present
a brief introduction and evaluation of one or more
novel ITP tools developed to gain analytical leverage
over political processes, or to advance political science
instruction. The journal’s inaugural issue will
appear in fall 2007.
Shulman, who holds a joint appointment in Pitt’s
School of Information Sciences and the Graduate School
of Public and International Affairs, has garnered an
international reputation as an expert on e-Government. In
fact, he and his collaborators are recipients of more
than $2.2 million in funding support from the National
Science Foundation for his work on digital citizenship
and e-rulemaking.
JITP will be an outlet for interdisciplinary manuscripts
focusing on how IT is changing politics, a domain “not
typically well represented by scholarly articles in
leading political science journals,” said Shulman,
who also is Director of the Qualitative Data Analysis
Program in Pitt’s University Center for Social
and Urban Research. “We’d like to establish
a top-tier interdisciplinary journal, one that brings
social scientists together with information and computer
scientists in emergent research areas,” he said.
For example, JITP might feature a special issue on
political blogs, with an emphasis on the possibility
of new, large scale, IT-enhanced data collection, analysis,
and visualization. “It’s unlikely you’d
see that in any but a few of the other social science
journals,” said Shulman.
Shulman is a Senior
Research Associate in the University of Pittsburgh’s
Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR) and in
the Université de Genève-,
European University Institute-, and Oxford Internet
Institute-based E-Democracy Centre. He was the organizer
and chair for federal agency-level electronic rulemaking
workshops funded by the NSF and held at the Council
for Excellence in Government (2001), the National Defense
University (2002), the National Science Foundation
(2003), and The George Washington University (2004). He
regularly offers graduate-level courses on Digital
Citizenship and Digital Governance. |
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