[Air-L] Political participation panel Re: IR 12.0 CFP

[Peter Timusk]

This seems like a good place for a panel on political and community 
participation. Does any one else want to help organize a panel session on 
this? This would be very broad and many papers could fit in with these 
boundries.


 I read in political and community participation and am practitioner of 
politics and have worked for Elections Canada and I volunteer quite a bit in 
various community groups covering arts, law, health, labour, computer 
training. I also have studied some managing volunteers in a community college 
program.

I am though not presently employed by  a school and would not be doing this 
work as part of my duties at work at Statistics Canada. This would be as an 
independent scholar. 

any takers?

Peter Timusk B.Math, B.A. Ottawa Canada



On December 11, 2010 05:07:40 pm loriken at illinois.edu wrote:
> Some of you have probably already seen this on Facebook and Twitter; sorry
> for the delay -- I had a little email snafu.
> 
> Lori
> 
> Please distribute as appropriate.
> 
> I'm pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for next year's Internet
> Research conference.  The website for the conference is:
> http://ir12.aoir.org.  Follow us on twitter at @ir12.
> 
> Call for Papers   Internet Research 12.0 – Performance and Participation
> 
> The 12th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the
> Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
> 
> October 10-13, 2011
> Renaissance Hotel, Seattle
> Seattle, Washington, USA
> 
> People perform identities, worry about economic performance, expect better
> performance from technologies, and feel pressure to perform as employees
> or in other roles in life.  We observe or participate in artistic
> performances, ritual performances, and the performance of experiments. 
> Join us in considerations, analyses, and celebrations of the many types of
> performance and participation online and in blended online/offline
> contexts. We look forward to creative articulations of the many meanings
> of the term performance and to the many ways of considering types of
> participation.
> 
> To this end, we call for papers, panel and pre-conference workshop
> proposals from any discipline, methodology, community or a combination of
> them that address the conference themes, including, but not limited to,
> papers that intersect and/or interconnect with the following:
> 
>    * Creative performances and digital arts
>    * Participatory culture and participatory design
>    * Critical performance and political participation
>    * Identity performance
>    * Exclusion from participation
>    * Economic performance of Internet-related industries
>    * Game performance
>    * Performance expectations (as workers, citizens, etc.)
>    * Ritual performances and communal participation
> 
> Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically address
> the conference themes, and we welcome innovative, exciting, and unexpected
> takes on those themes. We also welcome submissions on topics that address
> social, cultural, political, legal, aesthetic, economic, and/or
> philosophical aspects of the Internet beyond the conference themes. In all
> cases, we welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well
> as international collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR members.  We
> particularly invite proposals from scholars in the areas of digital arts
> and digital humanities.
> 
> SUBMISSIONS
> 
> We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. As in the
> past, we welcome proposals for traditional academic conference PAPERS,
> organized PANEL PROPOSALS that present a coherent group of papers on a
> single theme, as well as PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS which focus on a
> particular topic.  We also invite proposals that will focus on discussion
> and interaction among conference delegates.  A common form of this type is
> the ROUNDTABLE SESSION, but we would also like to encourage other 
formats,
> such as OPEN FISHBOWL SESSIONS.  (See the Wikipedia entry under “Fishbowl
> (conversation)” for a description of this format.  Fishbowl sessions
> should cover broad topics of interest to a wide segment of the AoIR
> community.)
> 
> DEADLINES
> Submissions Due: 1 March 2011  (Papers, Panels and Pre-Workshops. Details
> below) Notification: 1 May 2011
> Full Papers Submissions Due: 1 July 2011
> 
> NOTE: The submission deadline this year is later than in previous years,
> but for this reason, it is a HARD DEADLINE; there will be no extensions to
> this date.
> 
> SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
> All papers and presentations will be evaluated in a standard blind peer
> review.
> 
> Format:
> 
> * PAPERS (individual or multi-author) - submit abstract of 600-800 words
> * PANEL PROPOSALS - submit a description of 600-800 words on the panel
> theme, plus a 250-500 word abstract for each paper or presentation. The
> panel organizer must assemble these materials for submission, * ROUNDTABLE
> and FISHBOWL PROPOSALS - submit a statement indicating the nature of the
> discussion and form of interaction, and listing initial participants.  (In
> the case of a fishbowl proposal, this will include the name of the
> moderator, and the names of the first four speakers for the fishbowl.) *
> PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS - please submit all workshop proposals via 
email
> to ir12chair at aoir.org.  Workshop proposals should include names of
> presenters, and a 1,000-word description.
> 
> Papers, presentations and panels will be selected from the submitted
> proposals on the basis of multiple blind peer review, coordinated and
> overseen by the Program Chair.  Each individual may present only one paper
> during the conference, though they may be listed as a co-author on
> multiple papers. In addition to this one presentation, they may also
> appear on a panel, roundtable, or performance.
> 
> PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
> 
> Full papers submitted by the 1 July 2011 deadline will undergo review to be
> published in an open-access, online collection, Papers of the Internet
> Research Conference (ISSN forthcoming).
> 
> Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of
> the journal Information, Communication & Society. Authors selected for
> submission for this issue will be contacted prior to the conference.
> 
> PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
> 
> On October 10, 2011, there will be a limited number of pre-conference
> workshops and symposia that will provide participants with in-depth,
> hands-on and/or creative opportunities. We invite proposals for these
> pre-conference workshops. Local presenters are encouraged to propose
> workshops that will invite visiting researchers into their labs or studios
> or locales. Proposals should be no more than 1000 words, and should
> clearly outline the purpose, methodology, structure, costs, equipment and
> minimal attendance required, as well as explaining its relevance to the
> conference as a whole. Proposals will be accepted if they demonstrate that
> the workshop will add significantly to the overall program in terms of
> thematic depth, hands on experience, or local opportunities for scholarly
> or artistic connections. These proposals and all inquiries regarding
> pre-conference proposals should be submitted as soon as possible to both
> the Conference Chair and Program Chair and no later than March 1, 2011.
> 
> CONTACT INFORMATION
> 
>    * Program Chair: Lori Kendall, Graduate School of Library and
> Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, email:  
> loriken(at)illinois(dot)edu * Conference Chair: Karine Nahon, Information
> School, University of Washington, email: karineb(at)uw(dot)edu
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