Sorry, this message was sent in reply to the wrong message. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of McMillan, Sally J Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 6:53 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] CfP: Digital Cities 5 at C&T 2007 Tuesday, May 1 would work for me. I'd love to see if we could find one more time this spring when ALL of us could get together. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Marcus Foth Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 11:50 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] CfP: Digital Cities 5 at C&T 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 30 APRIL 2007 Digital Cities 5 Urban Informatics, Locative Media and Mobile Technology in Inner-City Developments Workshop at the 3nd International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2007) June 28th, 2007, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Personalised mobile devices penetrate new urban spaces with a need for innovative products and services that enable the creative and consumption process to account for shifting social, cultural and psychological conditions. City residents now have the ability to communicate within groups, access media and entertainment content and manage their 'digital lifestyle' through SMS, mobile email, pictures and video. These innovative applications of locative media incorporate cultural and social patterns of interaction and user-led innovations that are yet to be fully explored. In addition to these informational and locative functions, locative media and mobile technology increasingly serve a discursive function as well. This is being manifested in a variety of rapidly emerging content genres (e.g., digital storytelling, blogs, e-zines, etc.) which are deployed between individuals as well as in networks of individuals. Digital cities have been promoted as a civic platform for citizens' visions of the space they live and work in, complementary (and sometimes even alternative) to the much more institutional view of conventional e- government approaches. Locative media and mobile technology can enhance and augment digital cities and connect them in new ways to the physical city, enhancing civic participation and deliberation. Relevant Research Questions: How can a balance be achieved between the opportunities of locative media and mobile technology on the one side and issues of access, trust and privacy on the other? What is the role of locally relevant content (personal and community images and narratives) in the establishment of sustainable social networks as well as in the context of civic participation? What can we learn from the communication models of global social networking sites such as MySpace and plazes.com in order to animate local interaction and civic participation of residents and friends locally? What is the role of location, (geo)graphical representations such as maps of various kinds, in supporting people to understand and navigate the augmented urban landscape? What is the impact of these new technologies on the challenges in moving from e-government to e-governance, e-participation to e- democracy at the urban level? Will these technological developments help increase or decrease the opportunities for citizens to play a role in shaping sustainable cities? What are the implications for the architecture and urban design of cities and public spaces? Submission Details: Interested contributors should submit an extended abstract, 1500-2000 words long, stating the author's name, affiliation, and contact information. This should be emailed to the workshop organisers before April 30th, 2007 and should summarise the author(s) research / practice background and interests as well as the work and results that will be described in a full paper. Accepted authors will be notified by May 18th, 2007. The acceptance of an extended abstract implies that at least one of the authors will register for both the workshop and the Communities & Technologies 2007 conference. Selected contributors will be asked to submit a full paper before October 1st, 2007. Full papers will undergo double blind peer review and appear in an edited book to be published by Idea Group in 2008. The full call for papers can be found at: https://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007/page4d.html Please email any questions and inquiries to both workshop organisers. Marcus Foth Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth@qut.edu.au Fiorella De Cindio Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy fiorella.de.cindio@rcm.dico.unimi.it -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Room Z6-511 m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/ http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Foth,_Marcus.html _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/