CALL FOR PAPERS: Submission deadline (new date): 28 February 2011
IADIS International Conference
ICT, Society and Human Beings 2011
Rome, Italy 24 - 26 July 2011
Conference Program Co-Chairs:
Gunilla Bradley, Professor Em, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Diane Whitehouse, Chair of IFIP WG 9.2 on Social Accountability and Computing, The Castlegate Consultancy, UK
Conference background and goals The effects of ICT on human beings as well as the interaction between ICT, individuals, and society are all within the focus of this conference. Both analyses of interactions and effects are important. Changes in behaviour, perspectives, values, competencies, human and psychological aspects and feelings are all of interest. Reflections on past, present, and future challenges - especially planning for handling the latter - are encouraged.
Today, computer science and ICT-related disciplines are working more and more together with various behavioural and social sciences including child psychology and developmental psychology. For this reason, the conference pays attention to societal changes, global and more local organisational and institutional changes, changes in values and in lifestyles, as well as individual cognitive effects and changes, motivational and emotional changes. It also appeals to solution-building in terms of desirable goals and actions for reaching a Good Information Society.
In general all types of research strategies are encouraged, and especially cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary studies. Case studies, broader empirical field studies, theoretical analyses, cross-cultural studies, scenarios, ethnographic studies, epistemological analyses may all be presented.
The broader scope of this conference is presented in the conference web site http://www.ict-conf.org under "Call for papers" including a theoretical framework which outlines the conference approach.
Submissions Details on the conference web site http://www.ict-conf.org/ under "submissions". The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line). Types of contributions: Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters, Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.
Important Dates - Submission Deadline (new date): 28 February 2011 - Notification to Authors (new date): 31 March 2011 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (new date): Until 28 April 2011 - Late Registration (new date): After 28 April 2011 - Conference: Rome, Italy, 24 to 26 July 2011
Conference Location The conference will be held in Rome, Italy.
Topics related to ICT, Society and Human Beings These include, but are not limited to:
Track A: Globalization and ICT - Globalization processes - Glocalization processes - Values, norms - Labour market (outsourcing, integration, mobility) - Universal access - Virtual worlds - Global villages - Rethinking economic and social theories - Human capital theory - Sustainability, Democracy - Global catastrophes - Vulnerability - Peace and war
Track B: Life environment and ICT - Psychosocial environment - Work environment/Work place - Work content - Work tasks - Organizational structure - Decision support systems - Human-human communication - Power structure-formal and informal - Leadership - Career patterns - Influence/participation - Working hours and salary/compensation - Work pace/work load - Physical and ergonomic conditions - Changes in the concept of time - Changes in the way we are ('being') - Learning and knowledge growth - Home Environment - Public Environment - Private Environment - Virtual Environment - Virtual (on-line) communities - Organisational Design and Management - Psychosocial work environment
Track C: Life role and ICT - Citizen's role - Professional role - Leadership role - Private role - Virtual roles - Home of the future - Mobile life - Role conflicts
Track D: ICT and effects on humans - Analyses of impact as well as technology contributing to desirable human qualities - Psychosocial impact - Life styles - Human needs (meaningfulness, belonging, autonomy, confidence) - Happiness and fun - Wellbeing and health - Dependency - Identity - Integrity - Trust - security - privacy - Addictiveness (games) - Availability - Motivation - Human memory - Cyber sickness - Stress (over- and understimulation) - Workload - Fatigue - Love and relationships - Skills and competencies - Creativity - Problem solving - Social competence
Track E: Perspectives on ICT - Social and psychosocial - Cross-cultural - Theoretical - Gender - Class - Rural - urban - Multimodal - Economic - Ethical
Track F: Desirable goals and ICT - Integration - Humanization - Reducing poverty - Bridging the digital gap - Freedom of expression - Democratization - E-cooperation
- Peace - Sustainability - Accountability, responsibility - Involvement, empowerment - Wellbeing Health - Human welfare - Quality of life - Human Rights
Track G: Actions for reaching the Good Information Society - Individual level - Community (physical and virtual) level - Governmental level - International level - Civil society and social change in communities - Design of societal systems - rethinking
Secretariat IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ICT, SOCIETY AND HUMAN BEINGS 2011 E-mail: secretariat@ict-conf.org Web site: http://www.ict-conf.org/
David Hakken Information Ethnographer Professor of Social Informatics Director of Graduate Admissions, Department. of Informatics Director of International Activities Co-Director, Project on Science and Technology in the Pacific Century School of Informatics 901 E. !0th Street Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47406 dhakken@indiana.edu http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/research/profiles/dhakken.asp Office Hours: M 10:30-11:30, W 1-2 "Creating intellectual property is the essence of what we do at Microsoft..."--Microsoft press release, August, 2005