[ecrea] International Transdisciplinary Research and Practice Online Conference "Connect-Universum"

The oldest Siberian Imperial Tomsk University,
presently known as National Research Tomsk State University
(TSU)(http://en.tsu.ru/),
invites you to contribute to the third
International Transdisciplinary Research and Practice Online Conference
“Connect-Universum-2016�(http://connect-universum.com/)
The theme of the Conference:
Digital Nomadism as a Global and Siberian Trend
(May 24-26, 2016)

March 28, 2016 – Conference application form deadline (forms for
researchers and practitioners).
April 30, 2016 – reports and presentations deadline.

Organizers of the Conference:

TSU Center for Research “Trans-Siberian Scientific Way� (TSSW)
TSU Department of Social Communication
Laboratory of High-Hume New Media Technologies

Partners of the Conference:

Research Center for Semiotics, Technical University of Berlin (TUB)
Tomsk Regional Non-Profit Organization of Social Communications
“Strategy of Success�

This year, “Connect-Universum� invites researchers and practitioners who
are interested in the phenomenon of digital nomadism as an object of
philosophical evaluation and transdisciplinary research, as well as a
way of living. Digital nomads are people who work, study, create, and
rest remotely from any fixed location, using Internet technologies and
mobile connections. Originally, such people were residents of “wireless�
metropolises. Today satellite technologies allow them to live in any
part of the world. Therefore, digital nomadism belongs solely to the
modern network information and communication society.
Permanent mobility and continuous connection to the Net (“plugging�) are
the main characteristics of digital nomads’ identity because they make
their culture supermobile. As a result, we are witnessing a revenge of
nomadic lifestyle over the principle of a territorial settled lifestyle
(Bauman, 2000). However, because it is geographically widely spread,
this new sociocultural practice has rarely become an object of serious
scientific research and discourse. One of the reasons for this is that
there is no proper metalanguage to describe digital nomadism as a
sociocultural phenomenon and an object of transdisciplinary research.
Meanwhile, digital nomadism is a factor of serious anthropological
changes that effect social, material, and intellectual culture. It is
also helping to shape brand new types of communicative identity.
Therefore, the main goal of Connect-Universum-2016 Conference is to
discuss the essence of digital nomadism and a metalanguage used to
describe it, as well as its prospects and impacts on humanity in
general.
In addition to the global aspect of the range of issues chosen for the
discussion, there is a regional aspect. Despite growing extensive use of
the Internet and satellite communications, Siberia is not on the list of
favorite places digital nomads choose as their temporary residence. As a
unique area of multifaceted sociocultural interaction, Siberia remains a
blank spot or a collection of obsolete stereotypes for most people
around the world. However, Siberia occupies a large part of the
Euro-Asian continent. It has been a space for multicultural
communications and various lifestyles, influenced by a sedentary
lifestyle but also historically by the processes of nomadism and
migration.
   The influence of different climatic, geopolitical, and sociocultural
factors such as deglaciation of the Arctic, the risks of fundamentalism
in the Central Asia, issues of employment for people who flee from some
countries of Europe and the Eastern Asia, and internationalization of
higher education, may lead to increased migration to Siberia, which in
turn may lead to Siberia being one of the global communication hubs.
This requires new organization of Siberian cities as oases for digital
nomads, ones that consider their directions of mobility, types of
professional and\or educational activity, and their multicultural
interaction via social network and other communication platforms.
Siberia may and must become a territory attractive for urban digital
nomads who move within one metropolis, as well as for global digital
nomads who explore new conservation areas on a global scale.
Both aspects of digital nomadism – global and local – disclose new
horizons for fundamental and applied research of transdisciplinary and
sociocultural nature with possible application of the results in
different spheres of sociocultural practices (such as development of
infrastructure for residents, professional activity, education, and
leisure; manufacture of nomadic goods and technologies, etc.).

The organizers of the conference invite you to participate in a
three-day discussion in the form of a webinar.

The Organizing Committee has a preliminary consent to participate from
the following researchers:


Joerg Gleiter – Professor, Doctor habilitatus; Professor of
Architecture, architect, Head of the Chair of Architectural Theory at
the Institute of Architecture of Technical University of Berlin (TUB,
Germany); managing Director of the Institute of Architecture of TUB and
Member of the Academic Senate of TUB; Co-editor of the internet magazine
on architectural theory Cloud-Cukoo-Land.

Alexander M. Kholod – PhD, Professor of the Department of Journalism and
International Policy Studies at Kiev National University of Culture and
Art (Ukraine); Member of the Russian Association of Communication.

Vitaly E. Klochko – Doctor of Psychology, Professor; Professor of the
Department of General and Pedagogical Psychology at TSU (Russia);
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural History; Member
of the editorial board of the academic journal Siberian Journal of
Psychology.

Lan-Phuong Phan – PhD, co-founder of Renaissance Urbaine Consulting
Agency (France), researcher, participated in multidisciplinary research
network aimed at strengthening social cohesion in neighborhoods across
Europe through integrated social strategies.

John W. Moravec – faculty member in the Department of Organizational
Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of Minnesota;
Author/Editor of Knowmad Society; founder of Education Futures LLC
agency (USA).

Roland Posner – Professor of the Department of Linguistics and
Semiotics, Institute of Language and Communication, TUB (Germany),
Director of the Center for Semiotics, Member of the organizing committee
of the World Congress of Semiotics, Editor in Chief of the international
scientific periodical Semiotics Zeitschrift für Semiotik.

Sergei A. Samoilenko – Master of Communication, Staff Member of the
Department of Communication at George Mason University (USA); faculty
advisor for the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA);
Reader of Oxford University Press.

Saskia Sassen – Professor, Chair of The Committee on Global Thought,
Columbia University (USA); Centennial Visiting Professor of Political
Economy in the Department of Sociology at the London School of
Economics, member of the Royal Academy of the Sciences of the
Netherlands, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French
government. Known for studies of globalization, world cities, and
international migration.

John Urry – Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the
Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University (Great Britain);
Editor in Chief of the journal Mobilities; his latest books are
Offshoring (Polity, 2014) and Cargomobilities (Routledge, 2015).


The Organizing Committee voices a hope that the following practitioners
in the sphere of digital nomadism will be able to participate in the
Conference:


Fabian Dittrich – blogger, entrepreneur, founder of Helpando company.
Speaker and manager of fundraising projects (Germany).  Carries out a
project on digital nomadism Diaries.

Matthew Kepnes or “Nomadic Matt� – travel expert, blogger, writes for
The New York Times, CNN, BBC, National Geographic, The Wall Street
Journal (USA); author of the book How to Travel the World on $50 a Day:
Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter.

Jacob Laukaitis – blogger, online entrepreneur, Co-founder of
ChameleonJohn, traveler, writer (Lithuania).

Tomas Laurinavicius – blogger, designer, entrepreneur (Lithuania).
Founder of the education online platform Despreneur Academy.

Renee Martyna – Co-founder of Hub-in-Ubud (Bali, Indonesia). Certified
conflict manager (Carleton University, NPSIA, Canada). Member of
Knowmads movement. Creator of  www.knowmadsland.com/ website.

Sarah Zendrini – entrepreneur, editor, traveler, expert in web content
(Switzerland). In the process of writing a book on digital nomads.
Creator of www.esprits-nomades.com website.

Working languages of the Conference are Russian and English.

Some issues to be discussed:

-	Ontology of the network society and digital nomadism
-	Technological factors of digital nomadism
-	Netocracy (Bard and Zoderquist) and digital nomadism
-	Classification of digital nomadism
-	Anthropology of digital nomadism
-	Sociopsychological profiles of digital nomads
-	Semiotics as a meta-language to describe digital nomadism
-	Architecture and urban design for digital nomads
-	Risks of digital nomadism
-	Political, economic, and legal regulation of digital nomads' lifestyle
-	Professional activity of digital nomads
-	Education environment for digital nomads
-	Digital nomads as researchers: opportunities and study of previous
experience
-	Creativity and digital nomads
-	Digital nomads as a new target audience for marketing communication
-	Prospects of development of digital nomadism as a global social
phenomenon in relation to Siberia
-	Designing “oases� for digital nomads (developing infrastructure in
Siberia)
     Other issues proposed by the participants are welcome

There are three variants of participation:

1) key speaker (presentation of a report or a case-study at the plenary
session live online with publication of the text of the presentation on
the website of the Conference and free publication in the issue indexed
in the Russian Science Citation Index РИÐ?Ц)
2) speaker (all materials are posted on the website of the Conference
and published in the issue if required).
3) participant of the discussion (registered online participant,
provided with the opportunity to comment and ask questions).

All key speakers and speakers will be provided with personal pages in
two languages on the website of the Conference. Key speaker status is
conferred by the International Council of Experts of the Conference in
accordance with a level of the contribution (relevance, content,
originality and creativity).

Deadlines:

March 28, 2016 – Conference application form deadline (forms for
researchers and practitioners).
April 30, 2016 – reports and presentations deadline.

All materials and questions should be sent to (connectuniversum /at/ gmail.com)

The Program of the Conference will be posted on the website of the
Conference two weeks prior the event.

Registration for the webinar on the website of the Conference will start
on April 24, 2016.

All the materials of the Conference will be posted on the website during
the first two weeks after the webinar. It will provide every user
interested in the issue with the opportunity to ask questions and
comment on the texts.

If the publication in the issue of the Conference is requested, full
text of the paper should be sent not later than April 30, 2016. All
texts should be formatted in accordance with the requirements.

Participation in the Conference, posting all the texts and cases on the
website of the Conference, and publication in the issue of the
Conference are free of charge. Printing and sending the issue to an
author are at the author’s expense.

Please, pay attention:

The Organizing Committee assumes the responsibilities of preliminary
evaluation and consulting on preparing papers of the participants for
publication in international journals indexed in the Scopus and Web of
Science citation databases. However, the final decision of publication
will be made by the editorial boards of the journals.

NB: The journal AI & Society (Springer) published 8 research-length
articles by the participants of the previous Conference
(Connect-Universum-2014).

The Organizing Committee of the Conference:

+7 (3822) 529 537
(connectuniversum /at/ gmail.com)
http://connect-universum.com;
http://connect-universum.tsu.ru




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