[spectre] Conference Call: The Social - Online, Mobile and Unplugged Social Networking

[Drew Hemment]

THE SOCIAL - ONLINE, MOBILE AND UNPLUGGED SOCIAL NETWORKING
CALL FOR CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS

Futuresonic 2008
Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas
1-4 May, Manchester, UK

The Futuresonic international conference and the Social Technologies  
Summit invite proposals for talks, presentations, workshops and  
session themes. Submissions of innovative formats for social  
interaction and experimentation are encouraged.

The conference theme is The Social - Online, Mobile and Unplugged  
Social Networking.

The Futuresonic conference is a place where important international  
discussions take place. Over recent years hype about social software  
and web 2.0 has raged largely unchecked. The conference will bring  
together leading figures to unpick the hype around the latest  
technological zeitgeist, broaden the debate, and propose and explore  
a critical understanding of social technologies.

Deadline for conference submissions -- 5pm 18th December 2007

http://www.futuresonic.com/submissions-conference

See also -- A GBP 5000 commission plus many other opportunities are  
available
in the Futuresonic 2008 Art, Music & EVNTS calls for submissions.

http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved


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THE CONFERENCE

Futuresonic brings 500 opinion formers, futurologists, artists,  
technologists and scientists from the digital culture, music and art  
communities to Manchester for four days of seminars, workshops and  
events.

At the heart of the festival is the internationally-acclaimed  
Futuresonic conference, and its focal point the Social Technologies  
Summit.

http://www.futuresonic.com/submissions-conference


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CONFERENCE THEME
THE SOCIAL - ONLINE, MOBILE AND UNPLUGGED SOCIAL NETWORKING

Digital culture burns bright with a vision of being not in isolation  
but in groups, placing the relations between people first. Beyond the  
hype lies ever greater isolation and conformity. Join us as we go in  
search of the social.

The 2008 conference will explore the theme of The Social - Online,  
Mobile and Unplugged Social Networking. The conference will also mark  
40 years since people took to the streets of Paris in 1968 calling  
for society to be abolished, and will assess the claims of todays  
digital culture as a potential catalyst of radical change amidst  
wider currents of radicalism.

Computers have become social interfaces for sharing digital media and  
collaborating to build online communities and folksonomies. Social  
technologies create an extension of social space, and new ways for  
people to come together, meet and share in today's society. As well  
as social software such as MySpace, Flickr, YouTube and FaceBook,  
there are technologies created and maintained by social networks,  
such as communities of developers and users working collaboratively  
with open source tools, or that enable people to connect with each  
other in public places, or that bind people together in their  
everyday lives.

The Social Technologies Summit will explore the new social spaces and  
the social implications of technologies for the many different kinds  
of people who make, use and are affected by them.

Some proclaim the death of email. Life is supposed to be 'more  
social' - easier to communicate, the world at our finger tips, more  
sharing, more social. But this is a time when we see how electronic  
communication can isolate us, as more and more people drown in a  
deluge of email that generates stress, even reducing IQ.  
Additionally, 'online communities' are based upon an artificial  
equivalence between 'users' which obscures power relationships and  
issues of ownership.

In all parts of the globe people are seeking to open up or hold onto  
places to meet and communicate freely, online and offline. In India  
we see emergent kinds of community media, in South Korea new social  
uses of the mobile internet, and in Brazil the spread of 'cultural  
hotspots'.

Join us as we go in search of the social today.

http://www.futuresonic.com/submissions-conference


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CALL FOR CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS

Futuresonic now invites submissions to the Futuresonic conference and  
the Social Technologies Summit.

Proposals for talks, presentations and workshops plus also session  
themes are invited. Submissions of innovative formats for social  
interaction and experimentation are encouraged.

For details on submitting to the conference visit
http://www.futuresonic.com/submissions-conference


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BOOKING INFORMATION

-- If you want to meet the creative thinkers, artists, programmers,  
digital media experts, scientists, industry specialists, hardware and  
software developers, marketers, political thinkers and activists

-- If you want to find out about new technologies and their impact on  
tomorrow's society

-- If you are looking for new and exciting ways to create, do  
business and interact

Then sign up early to the Futuresonic conference and the Social  
Technologies Summit.

Email Your Name, Address and Contact Details to  
ideas2008 at futuresonic.com to receive full conference details and  
priority booking options.

CONFERENCE PASS

Early Bird Delegate Pass
GBP 60 (must be bought by February 1 2008)
Advance Delegate Pass
GBP 100
Delegate Pass (on the door)
GBP 150
Students/Concessions
GBP 30

Further discounts available for group bookings.

A limited number of pay-what-you-can Day Passes will be available on  
each day of the conference.

The Conference Pass includes access to all festival events.

Email your name, address and contact details to  
ideas2008 at futuresonic.com and we will send you full details on  
Futuresonic Conference 2008 as well as priority booking options.


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FUTURESONIC 2008

Futuresonic has 4 strands: Art, Music, Ideas and EVNTS. Currently in  
its 12th year, the festival occupies the orbits of both music and  
digital culture.

A focus in recent years has been presenting artworks in unexpected  
city spaces, and on social art and social technologies.

Futuresonic now invites artists, thinkers and makers to get social  
and present new types of collaborative social experience at  
Futuresonic 2008.

This is a time when we see how electronic communication can isolate  
us, as more and more people drown in a deluge of email that generates  
stress, even reducing IQ; and it is 40 years since people took to the  
streets of Paris in 1968 calling for society to be abolished.

Join us as we go in search of the social today.

Web 2.0...
I take part
you take part
he takes part
we take part
you all take part
they profit.
(Slogan from Paris '68, remixed)

http://www.futuresonic.com

Futuresonic is supported by Arts Council England North West and
presented in association with Imagination at Lancaster.