[Air-l] Final Programme and Keynote Speaker

Charles Ess cmess at drury.edu
Mon May 3 20:40:26 PDT 2004


(Um, this conference invitation is for real - smile!)

Dear aoir-ists:

We are pleased to announce that Nina Wakeford (Director of the Incubator for
Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography (INCITE) research centre in
the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK) will present the
keynote address opening this year's conference on "Cultural Attitudes
towards Technology and Culture" (CATaC).
Professor Wakeford's address is titled "Technology and mobility at the
margins".


The programme for CATaC'04 includes presenters from 28 countries focusing on
six major themes (Culture: theory and praxis; ICTs and intercultural
communication; ICTs and cultural hybridity; Culture and economy; Governments
and activists in culture, technology and communication; and Culture,
communication, and e-learning) as well as several themed sessions.
The programme further includes two panels, each chaired and shaped by
distinguished colleagues:

1: The Multilingual Internet - chairs, Susan Herring and Brenda Danet
2: Utopian Dreams vs. Real-World Conditions: Under what conditions can ICTs
really help worse off communities? - chair, Michel Menou

CATaC'04 will take place 27 June - 1 July 2004, in the "city of the sun,"
Karlstad, Sweden - right after Midsommer celebrations on June 25-26.

For additional information regarding the conference, including the abstract
for the keynote address, complete programme, accommodation, registration,
and travel information, please see the conference website,
 <www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/>

On behalf of our local co-chairs, Malin Sveningsson, Ylva Hard åf Segerstad,
and Robert Burnett, we hope you will be able to join us in Karlstad.  Please
feel free to address any additional questions to:

Charles Ess
Drury University
Tel: 417-873-7230; Fax: 417-873-7435
catac at it.murdoch.edu.au

Fay Sudweeks
Murdoch University
Tel: 61-8-9360-2364; Fax: 61-8-9360-2941
catac at it.murdoch.edu.au





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