Signo y Pensamiento, the journal published by the Communications Department of Universidad Javeriana's School of Language and Communications (Bogot, D. C., Colombia) wants to take part in the national and international debates that have emerged around WSIS.

It is inviting researchers, teachers, and scholars interested in the area of communication and social sciences to submit their articles or papers for the journal's issue No 44 (January-July 2004), which will be devoted to the subject "Information Society: Which Society are We Talking about?"

Interested parties may submit research findings, essays and reports within the general framework of mass media, culture and media, and/or the use and appropriation of cultural assets. Papers on any of the following general themes can be submitted:

1. Knowledge, Information and Culture vs. Economy and the Markets, How to Balance the Scales?-- Articles concerning the relationship between the quality and quantity of cultural consumption and revenue criteria; copyrights and intellectual property; broadening ownership, the right to free information, and the democratisation of culture,
2. The digital gap (cultural and social)-- Articles on national, regional and global milieus; conflict, cooperation and integration (reality and possibilities); production and commercialisation of communication and information technology; development possibilities and indicators (infrastructure, users, access and weight within the economy); the presence and conciliatory strategies of the State and other political actors in the policies and regulation of information and communications as a public service.
3. The global and the local milieus: tensions and possibilities-- Articles dealing with the right to be different, plurality and cultural homogenisation; research and use of communications and information technology and socio-cultural integration (memory, the social fabric, the public and cultural spheres); citizenship participation and interaction (CIT); appropriation, participation, interaction and transformation of daily life and culture; literacy and virtual education.
4. Historical perspectives: From the new world order of information and communications to the information society?-- Articles on the continuities, transformations and ruptures that have taken place due to the shifts and displacements experienced by research and reflection on the national policies on communications, on communications for development, on social change, etc.

All articles must be submitted by 08 March 2004.

Requirements:

• Preferably, all texts should be unpublished. Otherwise, the name, date, and place of publication, the publisher's address, and a letter from the author or editor authorising the publication of the text must be included.
• The journal will give precedence to the following type of articles received: research results including introduction, methodology, results and conclusions; reflections based on the results of research worked from an analytic, interpretative or critical point of view; re-examined papers showing results, systematisations and progress in the particular field of studies accompanied by careful and comprehensive bibliography.
• Preferably, papers should be written in Spanish but texts in either English or Portuguese are accepted.
  • All articles should be 20 to 25 pages long, double-spaced and in 'A' format (28.000 characters approx.) in Times 12-point font.
  • All articles must include a brief abstract (100 - 120 words) in either English or Spanish.
  • Charts and graphics should be sent separately.
  • Information on the author should be sent on a separate sheet of paper stating: full name, nationality, address, e-mail, telephone, institutional membership or affiliation, recent publications and major areas of interest.

Submissions must be sent to:

Signo y Pensamiento
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Jorge Ivn Bonilla V., Editor
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Catalina Montoya L., Editorial Coordinator
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