Shulman Named Editor of IT & Politics Journal |
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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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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.