[eccr] Conference call for papers

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*** New Media, Technology and Everyday Life in Europe ***

A European Conference organised by EMTEL
The European, Media, Technology and Everyday Life Network
London, April 23-26 2003

__Announcement and call for papers__

The Fifth RTD Framework Programme of the EU, Creating a User-friendly 
Information
Society,  has as its main objective the realisation of the "benefits of the
information society for Europe both by accelerating its emergence and 
by ensuring
that the needs of individuals and enterprises are met".

The New Media, Technology and Everyday Life in Europe Conference addresses this
agenda directly.  It will ask three crucial questions which technology-driven
conferences generally fail to address:

§ What does a user-friendly society mean?
§ What are the facilitators of, and the obstacles to, its realisation?
§ What are the consequences for markets and policy making?

The Conference builds on and expands a range of research activities 
funded by the EC
4th and 5th Framework Programme (2000-03), COST networks actions and 
IST Programmes.
It is  timely in its situation at the interface between 5th and 6th Framework
Programmes. Above all, it draws on the research experience of the EMTEL network
(http://www.emtel2.org).

The conference is intended as a forum for a high-level encounter 
between leading
European academics in the field of media, new media and society, and 
more than forty
doctoral and post-doctoral researchers (under the age of 36) who will 
be invited to
present their research on the areas and themes covered by the conference.

The conference is financed by the EU, under the Improving Human 
Potential, High-level
Scientific Conferences, and will take place in London between 23-26 April 2003.

Conference website: http://www.emtelconference.org

-- 
Maren Hartmann - Researcher @ SMIT - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2 - 1050 Brussel - Belgium
phone (work): + 32 2 629 2572 - fax: + 32 2 629 2861
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