John Carr & Kris Erickson

University of Washington Department of Geography Box 353550 Seattle, WA 98195-3550

Phone: 206.543.5843 Fax: 206.543.3313

Contact emails: kriseric@u.washington.edu carrj@u.washngton.edu AAG Paper Panel title: Cyberspace: Owning, Controlling, and Transgressing the Country Without Borders

While much of the debate surrounding the social implications of cyberspace has revolved around question of its apparent lawlessness and unregulability, some recent critical analyses have deepened our appreciation of the ways in which a variety of tactics of regulation are both at work in cyberspace, and continually challenged. This panel is intended to explore some examples of how social order is both generated and subverted within the emerging spaces enabled by a variety of information and communication technologies (“ICTs’”).

Presentation topics might include, but are not limited to: ownership, regulation, and control of ICT’s; the use of cyberspace for protest and resistance; cyberspace and nationalism, militarism, and religion; the confluence of "virtual" and "real" in the “War on Terror”; the market for digital surveillance information; the changing relationship between ICTs, citizenship and the nation-state.

Proposed presentations already include:

- "Nametags, Roomkeys and SSIDs: the computer underground goes live at DefCon."

- "Open Source World;" The Creative Commons project as challenging and reaffirming the global neoliberalism.

Our aim is to enable a broad and theoretically diverse conversation about power and resistance in cyberspace in current disciplinary contexts. At the same time, we would like to make our presentations fun, creative and provocative. If you have questions about participation in this panel, please contact one or both of the panel organizers. All applicants must submit their abstracts of 500 words or less, as well as their PIN numbers by Monday, Oct. 10, 2005.