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MISTICA: INTERNATIONAL ICIE CONGRESS 2004

From: Susana Finquelievich ([email protected])
Date: Sat Nov 29 2003 - 10:25:38 AST

Gente: les envio esto, por ahora en ingl�s, lo siento,
Susana

>INTERNATIONAL ICIE CONGRESS 2004
>Localizing the Internet: Ethical Issues in Intercultural Perspective
>http://icie.zkm.de/congress2004
>
>Venue: Karlsruhe, Germany, 4-6 October, 2004
>
>ORGANIZERS
>On Behalf of ICIE: Rafael Capurro, Thomas Hausmanninger, Rupert Scheule
>Zentrum f�r Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe
>Karlsruher Forum f�r Ethik in Recht und Technik e.V.
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>The ongoing debate on the impact of the Internet at a global and local
>levels is at the core of today's and tomorrow's political decision-making,
>particularly in a world that turns more and more unified � and divided. It
>is also at the core of academic research on what has been called
>Information Ethics. The leading ethical question is how embodied human
>life is possible within local cultural traditions and the horizon of a
>global digital environment. The first International Congress of the
>International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE) will deal with this
>question from three perspectives:
>- Internet for Social and Political Development: Community Building
>- Internet for Cultural Development: Restructuring the Media
>- Internet for Economic Development: Empowering the People
>
>The ethical perspective on intercultural aspects of the global digital
>network is a normative as well as a formative one. The Congress addresses
>the question of how people with different cultural backgrounds integrate
>the Internet in their lives. This concerns in the first place community
>building. How far does the Internet affect, for better or worse, local
>community building? How far does it allow democratic consultation? How do
>people construct their lives within this medium? How does it affect their
>customs, languages, and everyday problems? The question about information
>justice is thus not just an issue of giving everybody access to the global
>network (a utopian goal?), but rather an issue on how the digital network
>helps people to better manage their lives while avoiding the dangers of
>exploitation and discrimination.
>
>It deals, secondly, with the changes produced by the Internet on
>traditional media, such as oral and written customs, newspapers, radio and
>TV, the merger of mass media, the telephone and the internet, and the
>impact of the Internet on literary culture. The Congress also reflects on
>the next generation of information and communication technologies such as
>ubiquitous computing and on what might be called the post-internet era.
>This aspect of the ethical question focuses on new methods of manipulation
>and control made possible or aggravated by the Internet.
>
>Finally, it deals with the economic impact of the Net. Is it a medium that
>helps people to better opportunities for economic development? Or is it an
>instrument of oppression and colonialism? What is the impact of this
>technology on the environment? How does it affect what has been called
>cultural memory or cultural sustainability?
>
>The Congress offers a platform for an academic exchange on these issues,
>to be addressed by keynote speakers and discussed in working groups
>focused on Asia, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, and USA/Europe. Group
>discussions will aim at addressing problems as well as best-practice
>experiences. Although the organisers will do their best for providing
>necessary conditions for relaxed yet engaged dialogue, the success of the
>Congress will reflect the contributions and enthusiasm of the participants
>to make it work.
>
>The Congress is a contribution to the international debate on the
>information society at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
>being held in Geneva (2003) and Tunis (2005).
>
>A selection of the papers will be published in the ICIE Series at Fink
>Verlag (Munich) in a volume edited by Rafael Capurro, Thomas Hausmanninger
>and Rupert Scheule. All accepted extended abstracts (500-700 words) will
>be published at the website of the Congress. They should be sent per
>e-mail to Rafael Capurro: [email protected] Deadline for submission: April
>30, 2004.
>
>In case an extended abstract has been submitted and accepted it can be
>discussed on the basis of a short presentation (no more than 15 minutes)
>in the working groups. Active participation in the working groups is only
>permitted in case the participant has sent previously (deadline June 30,
>2004) an e-mail to the organizing committee: [email protected]

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