Dear AoIR-ists, The organizing committee of CATaC'10 (June 15-18, UBC, Vancouver, Canada) is very pleased to announce that the registration and accommodations pages for CATaC'10 are now available: <http://www.catacconference.org/> In conjunction with CATaC'10, we would also like to call your attention to the call for papers for a volume on New Media and Intercultural Communication, edited by Pauline Hope Cheong, Judith N. Martin & Leah Macfadyen - appended below. Please distribute to appropriate lists and potentially interested colleagues - many thanks! charles ess Department of Information- and Media Studies, Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce@hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA == CALL FOR PAPERS NEW MEDIA AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION Edited by Pauline Hope Cheong, Judith N. Martin & Leah Macfadyen We are searching for articles to accompany the essays we have already assembled for this volume which presents new scholarship on the intersections of communication, technology and culture. While there has been great deal of quantitative, social science scholarship focused on the features and uses of new communication technologies, there has been less emphasis placed on the role culture plays in new media use, particularly from interpretive and critical research perspectives. This collection of essays attempts to fill this intellectual void. In particular, we encourage submissions from CATaC¹10 presenters and participants whose work directly focuses on culture and its complex interactions with communication more broadly and contemporary Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) that exploit the multiple possibilities of the internet, including internet-enabled mobile devices. Essays included will address topics such as the impact of culture differences on new media use, particularly as it involves new media diffusion, appropriation and the digital divide(s), for instance, how culture influences the performance of gender, sexuality and identity in various social networks, the important implications of culture for distance education pedagogy, and how Web 2.0 imaging and texting interactions foster and/or threaten cultural diversity, privacy and surveillance. We define culture broadly as including gender, age, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other social groupings that may self-identify as cultural groups as well as more traditional definition of culture as nationality. We are looking for articles that address these (and other issues) in a variety of contexts: educational, business and social. The articles can be theoretical as well as empirical (data-based). If you have written an article which you believe might fit our volume please send it to newmediaculture@gmail.com. Submission Details Please submit a 500-700 word abstract (including important and initial references) to the editors as an email attachment to newmediaculture@gmail.com no later than 1. May, 2010. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 1. July, 2010, and will then be invited to submit a full paper to the editors. Articles will be reviewed by an editorial board and should be no longer 6500 words (including works cited), double spaced, in 12-point font, using APA format of in-text and works cited section. Use footnotes only for comments, not for bibliographical references.