[Air-L] CaTaC'14 - keynote speakers and date change

[Charles Ess]

Dear AoIR-ists,

 
CaTaC¹14: Culture, Technology, Communication: Celebration,
Transformation, New Directions ­ important updates.  Please
distribute and cross-post as appropriate.
 

Conference website: <http://www.catacconference.org/>

 
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I¹m very pleased to note that
CaTaC¹14 will be enlivened and inspired by two keynote speakers:

 
Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in the Philosophy of
Technology, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver,
Canada.
Andrew is among the most significant and influential contemporary
philosophers of technology. His work is rooted in Critical Theory and
phenomenology, and emphasizes the critical requirements for democratic
approaches
to technology. 
    
Judith Simon, Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria;
Institute for Technology Assessment, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
Germany
Judith's research focuses on epistemic dimensions of ICTs, and is
rooted in STS and feminist philosophy. Her ideas on distributed epistemic
responsibility in sociotechnical environments play an important role in the
Onlife Manifesto, a project of the European Commission that seeks to foster
more humane and sustainable technology development.

 
Please also the note change of dates: June 18-20, 2014.
 
NB!  June is a busy month for conferences and tourism in
Oslo.  We strongly urge potentially interested participants to explore the
resource lists on the conference website of recommended accommodations and
book
as early as possible.  Notifications of acceptance will be issued
sufficiently early (March 28, 2014) so as to allow cost-free reservation
cancellation if need be.

 
Important Dates:
    Submission of papers (short or full), panel proposals: 16 February 2014
    Notification of acceptance: 28 March 2014
    Final formatted papers (for conference proceedings): 18 April 2014
 

Information regarding submission procedures will be available soon.
Registration fees will be announced in early February.
 

We look forward to welcoming you to Oslo next June!
- charles ess
Professor in Media Studies
 

Conference Co-organizers:
Charles Ess (Department of Media and Communication, University of
Oslo)
Maja van der Velden (Department of Informatics, University of Oslo)
Organizing Committee
José Abdelnour-Nocera (School of Computing and Technology, University
of West London)
Herbert Hrachovec (Philosophy Department, University of Vienna)
Leah Macfadyen (Evaluation and Learning Analytics, University of
British Columbia)
Patrizia Schettino (Communication Studies, Università della Svizzera
italiana)
Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Department of Applied Information Technology
at the University of Gothenburg/Chalmers)
Andra Siibak (Media Studies, University of Tartu)
Michele M. Strano, Program Chair (Communication Studies, Bridgewater
College)
Satomi Sugiyama (Communication and Media Studies, Franklin College
Switzerland)