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Review Essay Guidelines

Christine B. Williams, Associate Editor for Review Essays

A Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) “Review Essay” has two major purposes. First, it provides a survey and synthesis of prior published work that serves to compile and organize current knowledge within a specific subfield, research area, topic or subject matter. Second, it serves to chart new directions for future research, by addressing such questions as where current knowledge is incomplete or research findings are inconsistent. It points to interesting cross-disciplinary intersections, suggesting where new opportunities for data collection or analysis exist as well as emerging trends or problems from the world of practice. Review essays should manuscripts should be approximately 10-25 double-spaced pages.

A review essay encompasses a body of literature; it is not a critique of a single work or a limited selection of works by a single author. The organizing focus may be theoretical, conceptual, analytical, methodological, or evidentiary, combining more than one of these where appropriate. A review essay explains why this body of literature is timely and important to readers of JITP. It speaks to how the essay will advance the work of other scholars, practitioners, or educators working on issues at the intersection of information technology and politics.

The editors regard submission of a manuscript to JITP as an implied commitment by the contributors not to submit their paper to another publication while it is under consideration by this journal.

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