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U know who you're talking to i guess...

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Le 25 janv. 06, à 23:38, amanda mcdonald crowley a écrit :

> An alarming lack of representation of people from the region the 
> conference is being held (let alone from regions other than western 
> europe, northern america and australia) on the organising committee?  
> rather strange given the topic and location of the conference?
>
> amc
>
> On 25/01/2006, at 4:11 PM, Geert Lovink wrote:
>
>> International Conference on
>> CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'06)
>>
>> 28 June - 1 July 2006
>> University of Tartu, Estonia
>> http://www.catacconference.org
>>
>> 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 communication online.
>>
>> Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical
>> frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.:
>> 10-20 pages) and short papers (e.g. describing current research 
>> projects
>> and preliminary results: 3-5 pages) 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
>> - Ethics and justice
>> - Free/Open technology and communication
>> - Internet research ethics
>> - Cultural diversity and e-learning
>>
>> 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
>>   Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, catac at it.murdoch.edu.au
>>   Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, catac at it.murdoch.edu.au
>> PROGRAM CHAIR
>>   Herbert Hrachovec, University of Vienna, Austria
>> CONFERENCE CO-VICE-CHAIRS
>>   Pille Runnel, Tartu University, Estonia
>>   Pille Vengerfeldt, Tartu University, Estonia
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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