G'day ! For those of you who are looking for another reason to come to Brisbane (or didn't make it when we held AoIR 2006 here ;-) - the following conference might be interesting. Abstracts are due on 21 April. There's more information and a tentative list of some very high-profile keynote speakers on the CCi Website: http://www.cci.edu.au/event/creating-value-between-commerce-and-commons Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons -------------------------------------------- 25-27 June 2008 Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Deadline extended - Closing date for Abstract and Full papers is now 21 April 2008 Call for Papers Guidelines Detailed abstracts (up to 500 words) for papers are now called for. Deadline is April 21 2008. Abstracts will be refereed. We will be considering selected papers for publication (subject to separate negotiation). Please seperate author identifying information from the abstract proper. There is also an option to submit a full paper which will be subject to double-blind peer review. If accepted it will qualify as a 'refereed conference paper'. Full papers should be (at most) 3,000 words, including an abstract and full reference list. Please ensure that all submissions clearly state which theme they fall under. Please separate author identifying information from the paper proper. Please send abstracts and full papers by 21 April 2008 to: Dr Jean Burgess, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology je.burgess@qut.edu.au and also to Jodie Rapley, CCi Coordinator j.rapley@qut.edu.au Conference themes We are planning six broad strands of themed content at the conference. These are not separate mini-conferences; programming will be designed to cross-fertilise approaches and interrupt disciplinary comforts. Papers are solicited for all strands. Further details about each theme are available click here. Cultural Science Convened by John Hartley (research director of CCi and leader of its citizen-consumer program) Creative Capital and Workforce Futures Convened by Erica McWilliam (leader of CCi creative workforce program) Legal Issues for Social Networks and Creating Public Value Convened by Brian Fitzgerald (leader of CCi legal frameworks program) Citizen Journalism: Diversifying Information? Democratising Conversation? Convened by Terry Flew (leader of ARC-funded citizen journalism Linkage project) Broadband innovations and the creative economy Convened by Julian Thomas (leader of CCi international [global and regional] program) Creative Industry development agendas: design as value-add Convened by Stuart Cunningham (director of CCi and leader of its innovation policy program) -- Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ Senior Lecturer, Media & Communication a.bruns@qut.edu.au Creative Industries Faculty, Z1-515, CIP Skype: LexaSnurb Queensland University of Technology +61 7 3138 5548 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J