Forwarded by request: Holly ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Final Call for Submissions - "Theorizing the Web 2011" From: "PJ Rey" <pjrey.socy@gmail.com> Date: Fri, February 18, 2011 10:06 am To: undisclosed-recipients:; -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please circulate this final notice: The deadline for abstract submissions is only 3 days away (February 20th, 2011). Join us at: http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/cfp.html Date: April 9th, 2011 Location: University of Maryland Keynote Speaker: danah boyd (Microsft Research New England) Participants Include: George Ritzer (U. of MD), Jessie Daniels (Hunter College, NYC), Zeynep Tufekci (U. of MD Baltimore County), Katie King (U. of MD). Call for Papers: The goal of the conference is to expand the range and depth of theory used to help us make sense of how the Internet, digitality, and technology have changed the ways humans live. We hope to bring together researchers (particularly graduate students and junior faculty) from a range of disciplines, including sociology, communications, philosophy, economics, English, history, political science, information science, the performing arts and many more. In addition, we invite session and other proposals by tech-industry professionals, journalists, and other figures outside of academia. Topics will include: • Identity and self-presentation: concerns of privacy and publicity on the Web • Surveillance, voyeurism, exhibitionism, and secrecy online • The blurring of online and offline, real and virtual, cyborgism and augmented reality • The Internet and the changing nature of capitalism • How power and inequality (e.g., the Digital Divide) manifest on the Web • Political activism/slacktivism online • Bodies and sexuality in the Digital Age • “Relationship Status” and Online dating • “Prosumption” (i.e., the convergence of production and consumption online) • Global implications of the Internet (or of the multiple Internets) • McDonaldization, rationalization and the Web • Intersections of gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, and disability with respect to any of the above topics. Submit abstracts and/or register online at: http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/ For further inquiries, email: ttw2011@gmail.com . Hope to see you there! PJ Rey Conference Co-Chair Department of Sociology University of Maryland www.pjrey.net 2112 Art-Sociology Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742