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Reminder call for papers - queer intersections
by O'Riordan, Kate 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Queer Intersections: Revisiting online media and queer sexualities Edited by Kate O'Riordan and David J Phillips Introduction This edited collection will bring together crucial examinations of the intersecting fields of sexuality and the internet, and will provide an overarching contextualisation and consolidation of cyber/queer practices and theories. In the early to mid-1990s, the repercussions of queer theory were being engaged across academic feminism and lesbian and gay studies. At the same time, the internet was emerging as a key structuring device for academic networks, and as an important area of study. With the advent of the commercial web in 1994 the internet intersected with popular culture, and key questions of modernity - identity, community, governance, time and space - intersected with the web as it unfolded across multiple social domains. Whilst the mid-1990s wasn't the beginning of internet research, cybercultural studies, or queer, it was a period of sustained attention and excitement in relation to identity and the web. Since then, there has been intense collision and collaboration between queer theory and cyberculture, as the imagined ideal queer subject and the imagined ideal cybersubject came to occupy the same ground. Moving on from and challenging this formulation, the book aims both to document queer internet practices and to limn their theoretical implications at the intersection of the fields of queer, technology, and communication studies. Drawing on interviews with central actors, analyses of internet activity, syntheses of critical debates, and both new and historical research, the collection will provide both an overview and an in depth analysis of these engagements. We invite papers for consideration that complement either of the proposed sections of the book: Section 1 will provide theoretical contextualisations, histories and political economies of queer/communication technology intersections. Section 2 will showcase new and innovative work on queer sexuality and the internet that offers new insight, whilst also showing evidence of a rigorous connection to historical and theoretical context. Suggested topics and themes include (but are not limited to): · Sexual identities practices and communities · Art and activism · Consumption · Political economy · Representation · Performativity · Queer theory Target Market and Readership The book aims to provide a contribution to course materials for postgraduate and undergraduate work in digital/new media/internet and communication studies, queer theory, cultural and gender studies. The collection also aims to support postdoctoral researchers by providing a consolidation and bridging of existing and new work in the field. Deadlines Submission of 400 word abstract along with a CV: 1st of July 2005. Authors notified: 1st of August 2005 Draft chapters: 1st November 2005 Editors Kate O'Riordan, Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, Lancaster University, http://www.cesagen.lancs.ac.uk/staff/oriordan.htm k.oriordan(a)lancaster.ac.uk David Phillips, Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin, http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/phillips, djp(a)mail.utexas.edu Dr Kate O'Riordan CESAGen IEPPP Lancaster University Furness College Lancaster LA1 4YG tel: 01524 592769 email: k.oriordan(a)lancaster.ac.uk

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Elections for the new AoIR executive
by Matthew Allen 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Dear all I am pleased to announce that nominations for candidacy for election to the AoIR executive have now closed and a strong and diverse field of candidates has emerged. There is more than one candidate for all the positions (see below). We will now have a month of discussion and consideration prior to the commencement of voting in July. This discussion will take place through asynchronous (bulletin board) forums at http://forums.aoir.org. At this site, after creating a simple account (done automatically when you register), you may: - read the position statements of the candidates (that are based on answers to questions agreed by the current exec) - initiate discussion with any and all candidates by posting questions or raising issues with them - follow the debate between candidates and voters I will provide further information closer to the end of June on the simple voting procedure. I can announce that Jennifer Stromer-Galley of University of Albany has been appointed again as ballot counter. The candidates are: Vice President/President-elect Charles Ess; James Watt Treasurer Alex Halavais; Catherine Middleton; Monica Murero Secretary Irene Berkowitz; Sabryna Cornish; Elijah Wright Graduate Student Representative Ted Coopman; Anu Mundkur; Lois Scheidt; Gail Taylor; Stephanie Tuszynski; Elizabeth Van-Couvering Open Seats (3 to be elected) Ellis Godard; Stine Gotved; Caroline Haythornthwaite; Mark Johns; Randy Kluver; Holly Kruse; Ed Lamoureux; Kate O'Riordan; Antonio Roversi; Malin Sveningsson; Jamie Switzer; Michele White Dr Matthew Allen Associate Professor Internet Studies Associate Dean Teaching and Learning, Humanities Curtin University of Technology, CRICOS 00301J Australia m.allen(a)curtin.edu.au http://smi.curtin.edu.au/netstudies/allen.htm +61 8 92663511 (v) +61 8 9266 3166 (f) Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers http://www.aoir.org

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Delphi Method & Webdesign
by Niels Hendriks 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hi List-members, does any of you have experience with using the Delphi method to initiate web design projects? Thanks for your replies! Niels

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New publication from Programme for applied ethics and final workshop announcement
by Charles Ess 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Dear AoIR-ists, I hope the following will be of interest... please distribute to appropriate lists and colleagues as appropriate. -- charles ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 == New publication from Programme for applied ethics * Publication no 6: Technology in a Multicultural and Global Society (Edited by May Thorseth and Charles Ess, 2005) 145 pages. * * This interdisciplinary anthology focuses on information technology. The authors discuss ethical and other disciplinary challenges regarding the use of technology in our multicultural and global society. The anthology contains interesting examples from different parts of the globe: the USA, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and China. The authors: Bu Wei, China (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Dag Elgesem, Norway (University of Bergen) Charles Ess, USA (Drury University, Missouri) Merete Lie, Norway (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU) Knut Rolland, Norway (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU) May Thorseth, Norway (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU) Deborah Wheeler, USA (University of Washington) and Oxford <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/ref/contents6.pdf> provides the table of contents [pdf]. The publication costs 150,- NOK and can be ordered from our website <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/bestill_eng.php?id=6> * Other publications in the publication series: * No 1 Applied Ethics in Internet Research (edited by May Thorseth, 2003), 190 pages. * * This is an international and interdisciplinary anthology, with contributions from researcher and research fellows who participated in the course "Internet and Ethics", the programme's first national graduate course. The authors discuss ethical and methodological challenges regarding internet research. Some of the central topics covered are: - Informed consent - Private vs. public sphere - Embodiment/Disembodiment - Internet cultures and scientific norms - Intellectual property - Methodological questions regarding data collection Click here <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/ref/contents1.pdf> for table of contents [pdf]. The publication costs 150,- NOK and can be ordered from our website <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/bestill_eng.php?id=6> * * * The rest of our publications are in norwegian only <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/publikasjoner.php> : * #2: Anvendt etikk ved NTNU ["Applied ethics at NTNU"] * #3: Etikk og samfunnsansvar i norske økonomi- og ledelsesutdanninger ["Ethics and social responsibility in norwegian economy- and management education"] * #4: Globalisering og etikk ["Globalisation and ethics"] * #5: Psevdovitenskap og etikk ["Pseudoscience and ethics"] == Workshop Bridging Cultures: Interdisciplinary workshop on computer ethics, culture, and ICT (June 6th-7th, 2005) We would also like to remind you of our upcoming workshop, which is closely related to the themes in this anthology. Several internationally acclaimed scholars have been invited, including Deborah Wheeler, Luciano Floridi, Charles Ess and Bernd-Carsten Stahl. See our website <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridging_workshop.php> for more detailed information Although the registration deadline has expired, the lectures will be open to anyone interested. Please use our online registration form <http://www.anvendt etikk.ntnu.no/wregistrer.php> if you would like to be included in the list of participants.

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refs needed: analysis of users' internet traffic
by Ben Anderson 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

I'm sure there was a thread about this some time ago but I can't find it in the archives. I'm looking for papers covering this sort of stuff: > I'm looking for references about the use of the Web (preferably using > web use records): what kind of applications are used, what websites are > visited, for how long, at what time of the day, etc. Do we know if the > way computers are used at home has been analyzed and in particular in > which room they are set up, who in the household are using it, how many > households own more than one computer, etc.? respond on/off list & I'll try to summarise. thanks -- Ben Anderson Deputy Director, Chimera, University of Essex Tel: +44 7710 187806 privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~benander

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Fwd: CFP: Technical Communication in the Age of Distributed Work
by Steve Jones 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Begin forwarded message: > Special Issue of TCQ: Technical Communication in the Age of > Distributed Work > spinuzzi 05/30/2005 - 04:34 > Call for Proposals: Technical Communication in the Age of Distributed > Work > > Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin are excited about it and see it as a > moment of new liberation and choice for consumers and workers alike. > Gilles > Deleuze saw it as horrifying, even worse than the disciplinary society > Michel Foucault described. It goes by many names: Distributed > capitalism, > the control society, the informatics of domination, the support > economy. > Whatever its name, the characteristics are the same: control over > organizations is as distributed as ownership is in managerial > capitalism; > digital technologies play a vital enabling role; consumption is > individuated, taking the form of the desire for unique identities and > unique experiences; direct relationships between customers and > businesses > become more important; and customers look for stable beneficial > relationships among consumers and producers that support these > individual > experiences. These needs are supplied not by large, vertically > integrated > companies but by temporary "federations" of suppliers for each > individual > transaction. These federations are endlessly recombinant. Work is > fragmented temporally, geographically, and disciplinarily. Lifelong > employment is replaced by what Zuboff and Maxmin call "lifelong > learning" > -- what Donna Haraway calls continual deskilling and retraining. > > We can see the early signs of distributed work in the service sector, > in > the outsourcing of technical support, and in places like eBay and > Craig's > List. But we can also see it in the rise of homeschooling, the > weakening of > unions, the shift from stable identity politics to unstable > subsegments, > and the popularity of automobile customization. We can detect it in the > proliferation of time management methods, the popularity of distance > education, the increasing importance of content management systems, > and the > early success of Howard Dean's campaign. We can trace its contours in > Brenton Faber's discussion of corporate universities; Johndan > Johnson-Eilola's explorations of dataclouds; and Teresa Harrison and > James > Zappen's development of online community spaces and attendant research > methods. > > What does distributed work mean to us as technical communicators? How > is it > changing our field? Should we adapt to it, critique it, or resist it? > > In this special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly, we will > discuss > distributed work's implications for technical communication theory, > methodology, pedagogy, ethics, and practice. In particular, we will > consider topics such as: > > * How is technical communication practice changing, and how will it > change in the future, as it adapts to distributed work? How will it > accommodate, resist, or redirect? > * How do we teach technical communicators who expect to go into the > support economy? What are our political-ethical responsibilities and > our > logistical challenges? What changes do we need to make to pedagogical > theory? > * What roles will technology play in an economic climate in which > knowledge, expertise, and intelligence are widely distributed? For > instance, how can software documentation survive when users routinely > Google for answers? > * What theoretical frameworks are useful for theorizing the shift to > distributed work? What case studies can be used to illustrate it and > explore its implications for technical communication? > * What research methods do we need to adapt or develop to apply to > distributed work in technical communication research? What methods > should > we abandon? > * Finally, what are the contours of distributed work? What are its > promises and horrors? > > > Schedule: > > * 1-2 page proposal for paper: March 15, 2006 > * Full paper (if proposal is accepted): June 30, 2006 > * Scheduled publication of issue: Summer 2007 > > Contact information: Send proposals in .DOC, .RTF, or .HTML to > > Clay Spinuzzi > clay.spinuzzi(a)mail.utexas.edu > > Also, please contact the editor by email if you would like to be > considered > a reviewer for this special issue. > > > ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------

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new reviews in cyberculture studies (june 2005)
by david silver 31 May '05

31 May '05

New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/ ) include: David de Ugarte, 11M. Redes para Ganar una Guerra (Icaria, 2004) Reviewed (in Spanish and English) by Maria Goicoechea, American University in Madrid Anthony G. Wilhelm, Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society (MIT Press, 2004) Reviewed by John F. Barber, University of Texas at Dallas Reviewed by John Carr, University of Washington Marie-Laure Ryan, ed., Narrative Across Media: The Languages of Storytelling (University of Nebraska Press, 2004) Reviewd by Jessica M. Laccetti, University of London Robert O'Harrow, Jr., No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society (Free Press, 2005) Reviewed by Lisa Smith, American Humanist Association Enjoy. david silver http://theseptemberproject.blogspot.com/ To SUBSCRIBE to cyberculture-announce, a low volume announcement list for RCCS events and updates, email: listproc(a)u.washington.edu; No subject is needed. In the body, type: subscribe cyberculture-announce

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Re: [AIR-L] live-journal research
by Kathy Mancuso 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hi Radhika and AoIRers-- I've been reading the LJ research communities and such forever, and the answer to your question seems to be that there IS no good answer. Besides the folks on my panel for the American Anthropological Association meetings in the fall, and the citations I list below, a couple of people have written dissertations, which I'll be glad to point you to once my computer comes back from the repair shop. However, the LJ staff has actually ceased to help social science researchers because they never seem to produce anything or give anything back to the community. For my part, I'm not sure how to give back to the community--I posted in the main LJ-research community saying my stuff was done, pointing people to the abstract, and mentioning that I'd be glad to send my research out, and nobody's been interested in it. Here's what I have that directly addresses livejournal. The communities <lj user=metajournal> and <lj user=lj_research> also address these issues. As always, I'd really appreciate more sources! There's also a lot of little applets that map friends networks and interests which could be useful in a research way--I have a collection of these too. --kathy Google scholar brought me these: Contribution in Online Communities http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:g3YuQ9Zj-jEJ:www-2.cs.c… Social Network Analysis on the Semantic Web http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:7L20xbkJ1LUJ:www.blogni… Achieving Privacy in Hyperblogging Communities http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:4x-M9DRe864J:www.sics.s… Running Head: Language Use Surrounding September 11 http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:4zPLchN_VkoJ:homepage.p… Implicit Links in Asynchronous Communication http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:AthzwW2fQDsJ:www.datawa… A Matter of Life or Death:Modeling Blog Mortality http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:dvGy46OUt6IJ:research.m… Structure & Evolution of Blogspace http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1040000/1035162/p35-kumar.html?key1=1035162… the following were taken from a blog bibliography, which I have but do not have a citation for--I know it's by someone with the e-mail address lscheidt(a)indiana.edu--if you are this person I would love the citation: Kendall, Lori (2003). Diary of a Networked Individual: Interpersonal Connections on LiveJournal. Presented at the meeting of the AoIR 4.0, Association of Internet Research, Toronto Canada. Lin, Jia & Halavais, Alexander (2004). Mapping the Blogosphere in America. In 13th World Wide Web Conference. New York: The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Retrieved June 30, 2004 from http://www.blogpulse.com/papers/www2004linhalavais.pdf. Abstract: This short paper constitutes the first phase of a long-term project focused on probing American urban culture by examining the hyperlinks and text of personal weblogs. It discusses methods of extracting geographic location information from weblogs and ways of indexing weblogs to city units. After a brief introduction to the broader research plan, the paper proposes a process to automatically extract geographic information from different weblogs. From both theoretical and practical perspectives, we will explain and justify the rationale of using 3-digit zip codes as units for comparing urban cultures. A distribution of American bloggers registered with Livejournal and Diaryland, two popular blog hosting services, will be presented to demonstrate the geocoding of the blogosphere, and to compare the distribution of these two hosts in terms of concentrations of populations and demographic profiles. Finally, we will discuss how to further improve the indexing methods. Paolillo, John, Wright, Elijah, and Mercure, Sarah (Feb., 2005). Mood, Music and Friends: Mapping the Culture of LiveJournal. Presented at the meeting of the Sunbelt XXV, International Network for Social Network Analysis, Redondo Beach CA. Abstract: LiveJournal is a popular weblog/community hosting service with over five million predominantly young, female users from the US. Although reported ages range from 13 to 55, and users hail from 240 different counties, users nonetheless experience LiveJournal as having its own distinct culture. How is this culture created, and is it observable in the posts and profiles of LiveJournal's users? To address these questions, we collected a snowball sample of LiveJournal user profiles, containing information about users' interests and friends, as selfreported and regularly maintained through a web form-based interface. Principal components analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis were used to analyze the interests and social positions of a subset of users (approximately 10,000) for whom complete information was available. The results were visualized in a series of reduced sociograms, which were used as a guide to select representative blogs for qualitative content analysis. The results reveal that there is a highly-structured core of LiveJournal users with well-defined and contrasting sets of interests as well as a large periphery defined by sets of contrasting, but less coherent interests. Qualitative analysis confirms the existence of these groups, and shows them to be correlated with off-line subcultural styling (e.g. goth, punk, etc.). Musical taste is the clearest correlate of group membership, while weak-tie channels of interaction relate the groups to one another. LiveJournal is thus a dynamic social market where youthful users craft and explore their public identities in ways that conform to off-line social categories, often through the commoditized world of popular music. The mechanisms of this process are exposed through the publicly-available profiles and posts of millions of users of LiveJournal and other weblog sites. Raynes-Goldie, Kate (Dec., 2004). Pulling sense out of today's informational chaos: LiveJournal as a site of knowledge creation and sharing. First Monday, 9(12).http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_12/raynes/index.html. Abstract: The informational overload currently facing Western society is changing the way we understand the world as well as rendering obsolete our current ways of managing information and creating knowledge. With these changes in mind, I will examine the blogging service LiveJournal as a new and more applicable way of managing information and creating knowledge in today's society. -- Katherine Mancuso academic, interrupted. new e-mails (don't use sc dot edu) personal: kmancuso at gmail dot com professional: katherine dot mancuso at emory dot edu Because long sig quotes are annoying, read mine below instead: http://www.echonyc.com/~janedoe/writing/selflove.html Anthropologists and labor unions allied: http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com Orphan Films (22-26 March 2006, CFP): http://www.sc.edu/filmsymposium Social software research linkage: http://del.icio.us/museumfreak

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HICSS39: Final Deadline Reminder (June 15)
by Jochen Scholl 31 May '05

31 May '05

Apologies for unintended double-postings-- FINAL DEADLINE REMINDER-JUNE 15, 2005 (CALL FOR PAPERS) Electronic Government Track Thirty-ninth Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences January 4 - 7, 2006 Hyatt Regency, Kauai Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu Mirror sites: http://hicss.sepa.tudelft.nl/ and http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/ Within the newly established e-Government Track < http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss >, a total of eight minitracks will cover the rapidly expanding e-Government research agenda at the 39th Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS39). Please find the detail minitrack calls under the specified URLs: - E-Gov Services, co-chairs: H. Brücher, K. Eschenfelder, & H. Krcmar http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovsvcs?sub=egovsvcs - E-Policy, Law, and Governance, co-chairs: M. Janssen, S. Holden, & T. Maxwell http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/epolicy?sub=epolicy - E-Democracy, co-chairs: A. Macintosh, E. Welch, & S. Beaumaster http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/edemocracy?sub=edemocracy - E-Gov Organization and Management, co-chairs: M. Wimmer, S. Dawes, & T. Pardo http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovmgmt?sub=egovmgmt - E-Gov Infrastructure and Interoperability, co-chairs: K. Andersen, R. Klischewski, & J. Scholl http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovinfra?sub=egovinfra - Mobile Government (m-Gov), co-chairs: R. Krimmer, R. Hackney, & J. Moon http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovmobile?sub=egovmobile - E-Gov Security, co-chairs: G. White, T. Cresswell, & S. Jones http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovsecurity?sub=egovsecurity - E-Gov Research Methods and Foundations, co-chairs: Å. Grönlund, J. Gant, & D. Norris http://www.ctg.albany.edu/conference/hicss/egovresearch?sub=egovresearch IMPORTANT DEADLINES Abstracts - Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content at anytime. June 15 - Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (www.hicss.hawaii.edu <http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/> ). All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Papers undergo a double-blind review. August 15 - Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System. September 15 !!New Date!! - Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission instructions on the Peer Review System web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference to present the paper. Early Registration fee $525 applies. October 2 - General Registration fee $575 applies until December 10. December 10 - Deadline to guarantee your hotel room reservation at conference rate. - Deadline to receive conference registration refund. - Late registration fee $675 applies. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION € HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. € Consult the conference website (www.hicss.hawaii.edu <http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/> ) for the listing and description of Minitracks for HICSS-39. € (Optional) Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for guidance and verification of appropriate content. € Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair. If unsure of which Minitrack is appropriate, submit abstract to the Track Chair for guidance. € HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper. € Submit full paper according to detailed instructions found on the Peer Review System website. HICSS-39 CONFERENCE TRACKS Collaboration Systems and Technology Co-chair: Robert O. Briggs bbriggs@GroupSystems; Co-chair: Jay Nunamaker nunamaker(a)cmi.arizona.edu Decision Technologies for Management Chair: Dan Dolk drdolk(a)nps.edu Digital Media: Content and Communication Chair: Michael Shepherd shepherd(a)cs.cal.ca E-Government Chair: H. Jochen Scholl jscholl(a)u.washington.edu Information Technology in Health Care Chair: William Chismar chismar(a)hawaii.edu Internet & the Digital Economy Co-chair: David King david.king(a)jda.com <mailto:david.king@jda.com> ; Co-chair: Alan Dennis ardennis(a)indiana.edu Knowledge Management Systems Co-chair: Murray Jennex murphjen(a)aol.com <mailto:murphjen@aol.com> ; Dave Croasdell davec(a)unr.edu Organizational Systems & Technology Chair: Hugh Watson hwatson(a)terry.uga.edu Software Technology Chair: Gul Agha agha(a)cs.uiuc.edu HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Submissions must not have been previously published. CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair Email: sprague(a)hawaii.edu <mailto:sprague@hawaii.edu> Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator Email: hicss(a)hawaii.edu <mailto:hicss@hawaii.edu> Eileen Robichaud Dennis, Track Administrator Email: eidennis(a)indiana.edu <mailto:eidennis@indiana.edu> 2006 CONFERENCE VENUE Hyatt Regency Kauai 1571 Poipu Road Koloa, Kauai HI 96756 1-808-742-1234 http://Kauai.hyatt.com <http://kauai.hyatt.com/

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Fwd: Call for Papers - ISA World Congress - Futures of New Mediascapes - Durban 2006
by Steve Jones 31 May '05

31 May '05

Begin forwarded message: > Call for Papers > > The Futures of the New Mediascapes: Communication, Knowledge, and > Culture in a Globalizing World > > Joint Session of RC07 Research Committee on Futures Research and RC14 > Research Committee on Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and > Culture at the XVI World Congress of the International Sociological > Association in Durban, South Africa, July 23-29, 2006 > > Chairs: Markus S. Schulz, New York University, USA, > markus.schulz(a)nyu.edu and Gaëtan Tremblay, UQAM, Canada, > tremblay.gaetan(a)uqam.ca > > The Internet and its related information and communication > technologies have experienced tremendous growth rates and given rise > to booming industries. Yet, the benefits of these technologies are > very unevenly distributed among and within countries. The once > euphoric hopes projected on these new media are being met with more > pessimistic warnings of unprecedented means of surveillance, an > increasing fragmentation of public discourse, restrictive intellectual > copyrights legislation, and new digital inequalities. This session is > meant to provide a forum for scholars working on communication, > knowledge, and culture to discuss the processes in which the new > global mediascapes are being shaped and their future implications and > social consequences. > > Deadline for paper proposals (200-300 words): October 15, 2005 > > More information: > http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/congress2006/rc/rc07_durban.htm > > Markus S. Schulz, PhD > Asst. Professor, Sociology > New York University > 53 Washington Square South, CLACS-4W > New York, NY 10012 > Phone: +212.998 35 76 > Fax: +212.995 41 63 > Email: markus.schulz(a)nyu.edu

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