[spectre] Social Technologies Summit - Call For Submissions

[Drew Hemment]

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Call For Submissions -- Deadline 5pm, 13 October 2008

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SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT
http://www.socialtechsummit.org

13-16 May 2009
Manchester UK

Digital culture burns bright with social connectivity

Futuresonic's acclaimed international conference, the Social  
Technologies Summit brings 500 opinion formers, futurologists,  
artists, researchers, technologists and scientists from the digital  
culture, technology and art communities together around shared issues  
to do with social media, society, art and the city.

Inviting proposals for talks, presentations, workshops and session  
themes. Submissions of innovative formats for social interaction and  
experimentation are encouraged.

Call For Submissions -- Deadline 5pm, 13 October 2008
http://www.socialtechsummit.org

See also -- A GBP 5000 commission plus many other opportunities are  
available
in the Futuresonic 2008 Art & EVNTS calls for submissions.
http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved

View images from the previous Social Technologies Summit in May 2008
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11193419@N03/sets/72157606972379839

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Social Technologies Summit
http://www.socialtechsummit.org

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The Social Technologies Summit has prefigured new trends and is a  
place where important international discussions take place on the  
latest developments in social media and their implications for  
society. Discover the small sparks that unfold into new ways of  
seeing the world and critically explore the latest upgrade affecting  
today’s digital culture.

It will combine keynotes, critical debates, demos and experiences  
with open space and participatory sessions, in a fun and engaging event.

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.

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. In keeping with the  
Environment 2.0 theme of Futuresonic in 2009, this year it will also  
explore the interface between our digital footprint and our  
environmental footprint, and new thinking on sustainability in a  
globalised world.

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Call For Submissions
http://www.socialtechsummit.org

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Inviting proposals for talks, presentations, workshops and session  
themes. Submissions of innovative formats for social interaction and  
experimentation are encouraged.

Call For Submissions -- Deadline 5pm, 13 October 2008

Download an application form / guidelines here:
downloads.futuresonic.com/social2009.zip

For further information contact
Lisa Roberts
Social Technologies Summit Programme Manager
FutureEverything
+44 161 237 9000
social09 at futuresonic.com

See also -- A GBP 5000 commission plus many other opportunities are  
available
in the Futuresonic 2008 Art & EVNTS calls for submissions.
http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved

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Reasons To Attend
http://www.socialtechsummit.org

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- 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 your group or company is looking for new and exciting ways to  
create, do business and interact

Then sign up to the Social Technologies Summit.

Ticket information available soon via
http://www.socialtechsummit.org

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Futuresonic
http://www.futuresonic.com

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The Social Technologies Summit is the conference of the Futuresonic  
2009 festival.

Futuresonic has 4 strands: Art, Music, Ideas and EVNTS. Currently in  
its 13th year, the festival occupies the orbits of both music and  
digital culture.

Futuresonic is presented by FutureEverything CIC. It is a Regularly  
Funded Organisation (RFO) of Arts Council England North West and has  
been awarded Pillar Status by Manchester City Council.

The Social Technologies Summit and Futuresonic are presented in  
partnership with ImaginationLancaster, a major new research lab at  
Lancaster University.

http://www.futuresonic.com