ORIGINAL TEXTS ONLY:
The communications must be inedited.
REQUIRED META-INFORMATION:
All communications must be completed with five key words and an
abstract in their original language.
We recommend, if it is possible, to translate the abstract to English.
All of this will be needed to send a communication in the electronic formulary available, but it is strongly recommended to have it prepared first at the beginning of the process.
ACEPTED LANGUAGES:
The languages for the congress that will be accepted by the organization will be:
Catalan, Spanish, Galego, English and Portuguese. The organization of the congress will offer an instant translation of all communications to Catalan, Spanish and English. If the coordination of a work group wants to accept communications in other languages, it will leave it specified in the page of its group and will be this coordination the one that will facilitate to the organization of the congress the translations of these communications to Catalan, Castilian or English, to allow, later, its translation to the other languages accepted for the congress.
SENDING FORMATS:
The electronic formulary available to send a communication will accept the following file formats: RTF, TXT, ODT, SWX, DOC, ZIP and RAR. The organization of the congress aims to the authors to use free formats (RTF, TXT or ODT). In case of any doubt or problems, please, put in contact with the organization of the congress in
congres2006@cibersociedad.net
FULL TEXTS:
This congress will accept only to send FULL TEXT communication from the very beginning of the call. That means that a communication will be accepted only if it is sending already on its finished and final version. It will be not accepted, by formal questions, those incomplete communications or only abstracts/summaries.
LENGTH:
By operative questions and of homogeneity of contents, we recommend a minimum extension of 10 pages DIN A-4 with double spaced (around 3.000 words) and a maximum extension of 32 pages DIN A-4 wit double spaced (around 10.000 words).
But this is only a recommendation, since the electronic formulary allows us to be as flexible in this aspect as the quality of the content suggests.
INITIAL COMENTARIES:
For the beginning of the congress, all the communications will be published in the electronic url of the congress along with an initial commentary or commented reading that will allow to initiate the debate on it. Therefore, it will be assigned to all the people with a communication accepted, the lecture of another work of the same group to elaborate an initial commentary about it. The assignation of it will be done by the coordination team of each group of work. The organization of the congress emphasizes that this pre-congress work is fundamental to generate a useful and effective discussion related to the contents of the communications.
MAXIMUM SENDING DATE FOR THE COMMUNICATIONS
The communications will be accepted till November 5nd, 2006.
RECOMMENDED CONTENTS FOR AN ARTICLE:
The organization of the congress considers of interest that all the communications must explicit in a clear way (1) the specific object of studio that the communication appeals with; (2) the relevancy or specific interest of the theme related to the objectives and lines of the group of work; (3) the methodology and disciplinary area(s) since the communication is elaborated with; and (4) the text may be finished with some conclusions.
FORMATS FOR NOTES IN THE TEXT:
We recommend to use notes on the communication text, in brackets, indicating the author’s surname, the year and page of reference, as for example: (AUTHOR, 1997:101) or also: (AUTHOR & AUTHOR: 1997:101.105).
Notes will be used at the end of a page only if they give more information or make commentaries directly related to the reference.
BIBLIOGRAPHY/REFERENCES FORMAT:
We recommend not to use drains for the bibliographic listings and use the following pattern for their elaboration:
-For a book:
TURKLE, Sherry, 1997,
Life on the screen. Identity in the age of the Internet, New York: Touchstone
-For a chapter of a book:
STRATTON, John, 1997, "Cyberspace and the Globalization of Culture", in David PORTER (ed.),
Internet Culture, New York & London: Routledge, pp. 253-275
-For a review’s article:
STARRS, Paul F., 1997, "The sacred, the regional and the digital", en
The Geographical Review, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 193-218
POST CONGRESS PUBLICATION:
All the accepted communication in the congress will be published on its Electronic Papers, that at the same time will be assigned with an own ISBN.
Each of material of the congress and all communications, although this would be specified on the contrary by their authors, will be assigned as “Creative Commons License” for the Congress, and this will permit the free circulation of the contents always that it is specified the source and the authors of them.