***Apologies for cross-posting*** Call for papers: 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies\ June 28-30, 2007, Michigan State University Workshop: Memory practices in computer-mediated communities: a research methods workshop Full description at: https://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007/page4j.html Community depends on memory; computer mediated community (CMC) depends on digital memory. Human memory is limited, corporeally bound, and subject to forgetting. As a consequence, communities develop other means of maintaining memory. Bowker (2005) argues that memory practices are infrastructure tools used to preserve memory in scientific communities. Information technologies are examples of memory practices that support community. In this workshop, we seek to explore the concept of memory practices in the study of community and broaden it beyond the scientific community to include CMC: communities of practice, interest communities, professional communities. We invite researchers of CMC to submit 5 page position papers: ~ Describing the communities they are studying ~ The memory practices on which they are focusing, and ~ The methods they are employing to study these practices. We welcome submissions in three broad areas. Theme One: Historical work on memory practices, technology and communities: Theme Two: Memory practices in communities of practice: Theme three: Memory practices in interest communities – gamers, shoppers, serious leisure and other interest groups – driven by social infrastructures. To participate send an abstract of 500 words or less to hrosenba@indiana.edu by May 4. Notification of acceptance will be sent by May 18. Questions or comments: Elisabeth Davenport, School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh EH10 5DT (e.davenport@napier.ac.uk) Howard Rosenbaum, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN47405 (hrosenba@indiana.edu) Conference web site: https://ebusiness.tc.msu.edu/cct2007/index.html