>From: Maja van der Velden <[email protected]>
>Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:11:05 +0200
>Subject: <incom> Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication
> (CATaC'06)
>
>Please forward! See you at CATaC'06! Greetings, Maja
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>International Conference on
>CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'06)
>
>28 June - 1 July 2006
>University of Tartu, Estonia
>http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac
>
>Conference theme:
>Neither Global Village nor Homogenizing Commodification:
>Diverse Cultural, Ethnic, Gender and Economic Environments
>
>The biennial CATaC conference series continues to provide an international
>forum for the presentation and discussion of current research on how
>diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information
>and communication technologies (ICTs). The conference series brings
>together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives,
>both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their
>presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through
>which they approach the conference theme.
>
>The 1990s' hopes for an "electronic global village" have largely been
>shunted aside by the Internet's explosive diffusion. This diffusion was
>well described by Marx - all that is solid melts into air - and was
>predicted by postmodernists. The diffusion of CMC technologies quickly led
>to many and diverse internets. A single "Internet", whose identity and
>characteristics might be examined as a single unity, has not materialised.
>An initially culturally and gender homogenous Internet came more and more
>to resemble an urban metropolis. Along the way, in the commercialization
>of the Internet and the Web, "cultural diversity" gets watered down and
>exchanges strong diversity for a homogenous interchangeability. Such
>diversity thereby becomes commodified and serves a global capitalism that
>tends to foster cultural homogenization.
>
>CATaC'06 continues our focus on the intersections of culture, technology,
>and communication, beginning with an emphasis on continued critique of the
>assumptions, categories, methodologies, and theories frequently used to
>analyse these. At the same time, CATaC'06 takes up our characteristic
>focus on ethics and justice in the design and deployment of CMC
>technologies. We particularly focus on developing countries facilitated by
>"on the ground" approaches in the work of NGOs, governmental agencies,
>etc., in ways that preserve and foster cultural identity and diversity. By
>simultaneously critiquing and perhaps complexifying our theories and
>assumptions, on the one hand, and featuring "best practices" approaches to
>CMC in development work, on the other hand, CATaC'06 aims towards a middle
>ground between a putative "global village" and homogenizing
>commodification. Such middle ground fosters cultural diversity, economic
>and social development, and more successful cross-cultural co!
> mmunication online.
>
>Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical
>frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.) and
>short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary
>results) are invited.
>
>Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to:
>- Culture isn't 'culture' anymore
>- The Internet isn't the 'Internet' anymore
>- Gender, culture, empowerment and CMC
>- CMC and cultural diversity
>- Internet research ethics
>- Ethics and justice
>- Cultural diversity and e-learning
>
>Our conference themes provide a range of approaches to the questions raised.
>
>SUBMISSIONS
>
>All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel of
>scholars and researchers and accepted papers will appear in the conference
>proceedings. Submission of a paper implies that it has not been submitted
>or published elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted paper is
>expected to present the paper at the conference.
>
>Full papers (10-20 formatted pages) - 13 February 2006
>Short papers (3-5 formatted pages) - 20 February 2006
>Workshop submissions - 20 February 2006
>Notification of acceptance - mid March 2006
>Final formatted papers - 29 March 2006
>
>There will be the opportunity for selected papers from this 2006
>conference to appear in special issues of journals. Papers in previous
>conferences have appeared in journals (Journal of Computer Mediated
>Communication, Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique
>de Communication, AI and Society, Javnost- The Public, and New Media and
>Society) and a book (Culture, Technology, Communication: towards an
>Intercultural Global Village, 2001, edited by Charles Ess with Fay
>Sudweeks, SUNY Press, New York). You may purchase the conference
>proceedings from the 2002 and 2004 conference from
www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac
>
>CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS AND CONTACTS
> Dr Charles Ess
> Distinguished Research Professor
> Interdisciplinary Studies
> Drury University
> Springfield MO 65802 USA
> [email protected]
>OR
> Dr Fay Sudweeks
> School of Information Technology
> Murdoch University
> Murdoch WA 6150 Australia
> [email protected]
>
>PROGRAM CHAIR
> Ao Univ Prof Dr Herbert Hrachovec, University of Vienna, Austria
>
>CONFERENCE CO-VICE-CHAIRS
> Pille Runnel, Tartu University, Estonia
> Pille Vengerfeldt, Tartu University, Estonia
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