[Air-l] Fwd: Call for Papers - ISA World Congress - Futures of New Mediascapes - Durban 2006

[Steve Jones]

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> Call for Papers
>  
> The Futures of the New Mediascapes: Communication, Knowledge, and 
> Culture in a Globalizing World
>  
> Joint Session of RC07 Research Committee on Futures Research and RC14 
> Research Committee on Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and 
> Culture at the XVI World Congress of the International Sociological 
> Association in Durban, South Africa, July 23-29, 2006
>  
> Chairs: Markus S. Schulz, New York University, USA, 
> markus.schulz at nyu.edu and Gaëtan Tremblay, UQAM, Canada, 
> tremblay.gaetan at uqam.ca
>  
> The Internet and its related information and communication 
> technologies have experienced tremendous growth rates and given rise 
> to booming industries. Yet, the benefits of these technologies are 
> very unevenly distributed among and within countries. The once 
> euphoric hopes projected on these new media are being met with more 
> pessimistic warnings of unprecedented means of surveillance, an 
> increasing fragmentation of public discourse, restrictive intellectual 
> copyrights legislation, and new digital inequalities. This session is 
> meant to provide a forum for scholars working on communication, 
> knowledge, and culture to discuss the processes in which the new 
> global mediascapes are being shaped and their future implications and 
> social consequences.
>  
> Deadline for paper proposals (200-300 words): October 15, 2005
>  
> More information: 
> http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/congress2006/rc/rc07_durban.htm
>  
> Markus S. Schulz, PhD
>  Asst. Professor, Sociology
> New York University
> 53 Washington Square South, CLACS-4W
> New York, NY 10012
>  Phone: +212.998 35 76
>  Fax: +212.995 41 63
>  Email: markus.schulz at nyu.edu