[Air-l] Fwd: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC'04)

jeremy hunsinger jhuns at vt.edu
Mon Apr 7 20:14:38 PDT 2003


>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Fourth International Conference on
> CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION
> (CATaC'04)
> 27 June-1 July 2004
> Karlstad University, Sweden
> http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/
>
> Conference theme:
> Off the shelf or from the ground up?
> ICTs and cultural marginalization, homogenization or hybridization
>
> The biennial CATaC conference series provides a continuously expanding 
> 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 first conference in the series was held in London in 1998, the 
> second in Perth in 2000, and the third in Montreal in 2002.
>
> Beginning with our first conference in 1998, the CATaC conferences
> have highlighted theoretical and praxis-oriented scholarship and 
> research
> from all parts of the globe, including Asia, Africa, and the 
> Middle-East. The conferences focus especially on people and 
> communities at the developing edges of ICT diffusion, including 
> indigenous peoples and those outside the English-speaking world.
>
> Understanding the role of culture in how far minority and/or 
> indigenous cultural groups may succeed - or fail - in taking up ICTs 
> designed for a majority culture is obviously crucial to the moral and 
> political imperative of designing ICTs in ways that will not simply 
> reinforce such groups' marginalization. What is the role of culture in 
> the development of ICTs "from the ground up" - beginning with the 
> local culture and conditions - rather than assuming dominant "off the 
> shelf" technologies are appropriate? Are the empowering potentials of 
> ICTs successfully exploited among minority and indigenous groups, 
> and/or do they rather engender cultural marginalization, cultural 
> homogenization or cultural hybridization?
>
> 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: theory and praxis
> - Culture and economy
> - Alternative models for ICT diffusion
> - Role of governments and activists in culture, technology and 
> communication
> - ICTs and cultural hybridity
> - ICTs and intercultural communication
> - Culture, communication 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. You may purchase the conference proceedings 
> from the 2000 and 2002 conferences from 
> http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac.
>
> There will be the opportunity for selected papers from this 2004 
> conference to appear in special issues of journals and a book. 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).
>
> Initial submissions are to be emailed to catac at it.murdoch.edu.au as an 
> attachment (Word, HTML, PDF). 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.
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
>
> Full papers (10-20 pages): 12 January 2004
> Short papers (3-5 pages): 26 January 2004
> Notification of acceptance: end February 2004
> Final formatted papers: 29 March 2004
>
> CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
>  Charles Ess, Drury University, USA, cmess at drury.edu
>  Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia, catac at it.murdoch.edu.au
> CONFERENCE VICE-CHAIR
>  Malin Sveningsson, Karlstad University, Sweden, 
> malin.sveningsson at kau.se
>
>
Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture





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