[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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