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<div><font face="Arial"><u><b>IAMCR-CTP Porto Alegre - Call for
Papers</b></u></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">The Communications Technology Policy section
invites submission of abstracts for papers and posters to be presented
at the 2004 IAMCR Conference to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil,
25.-30. July 2004. The Conference will be held under the theme:
Communication and Democracy: Perspectives for a New World. More
information about the conference is available at:
http://www.pucrs.br/famecos/iamcr/</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Digital technology opens up new possibilities
for democratization. Through ICTs citizens may get better access to
information and find new means to participate in democratic debate and
decision-making. Yet, there are a number of political and social
challenges to enable these potentials to be fully realized on local,
national and global levels. These challenges include questions of
culture, capabilities, access and social inclusion, of the openness of
the networks and of the possibilities for citizens to use ICTs
effectively for participatory purposes. How does policy address these
issues - and how does this interact with new market developments?
How do user aspects enable or constrain possibilities of digital
participation? What new dimensions of research can contribute to a
better understanding of the relationships between policy, information
and communication technology and democracy?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Papers and posters to be presented in the CTP
Section should relate to the overall theme of the conference and
contributions on the following sub-themes are especially
invited:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">* Digital Divide vs Democratic Inclusion -
political, social and cultural challenges on local and global
levels.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">* Structures and governance of the
liberalized ICT industries.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">* Strategies and policies regarding gate
keepers in converging markets.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">* Global Technologies and Local Power
Relations - policies, adaptation and use at community
levels.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">The CTP section encourages
papers that address these themes from the perspective of the
production and/or consumption of technologies. Although the sub-themes
above are of particular interest, the section welcomes submissions on
closely related issues and will give consideration to such abstracts.
The section encourages papers offering theoretically informed and
empirically grounded contributions.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Abstracts of about 500 words should be sent by
14. February 2003 to</font><font color="#0000FF"><u>
iamcr-ctp@encip.org</u></font>. In addition you should also put<font
face="Arial"> the four e-mail addresses of the section heads and
deputies in CC (Carbon Copy) (<font
color="#1919FF"><u>hdunn@cwjamaica.com</u></font>,<font
color="#1919FF"><u> Verhoest2@stb.tno.nl, jo.pierson@vub.ac.be,
tanja.storsul@media.uio.no</u></font>). Please indicate whether the
abstract is intended for the paper or poster sessions. All prospective
presenters will be advised by 12. April 2004 of the outcome of their
applications. The full text of accepted papers would be due for
submission no later than 13. July 2004.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">For updates and further information about the
section, please visit eCTP - the section's
website: </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"
color="#1919FF"><u>http://www.komdat.sbg.ac.at/ectp/</u></font></div>
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