[eccr] 2nd Global Conference: New Media and Technological Cultures

>2nd Global Conference
>New Media and Technological Cultures
>
>Monday 9th August - Wednesday 11th August 2004
>Prague, Czech Republic
>
>Call for Papers
>(Please cross post where appropriate)
>
>Keynote Speaker: Owen Kelly
>Author, developer and lecturer in multimedia
>Arcada Polytechnic, Espoo, Finland
>
>Cultural Issues in Developing 3d Worlds
>
>This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
>conference aims to explore, examine and critically
>engage with the issues and implications created by
>the emergence of new media for human living and
>culture. In particular the project will encourage
>innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues in
>wrestling with theoretical and practical debates
>which surround the cultural contexts within which
>emerging media and technological advances are
>occurring.
>
>Papers, presentations, workshops and reports are
>invited on any of the following themes:
>
>* defining the characteristics and features
>of 'new' media
>
>* histories and theories of new media
>
>* visual culture and the impact of entertainment
>
>* digital communications and ways of relating
>
>* new media in political contexts; new forms of
>citizenship
>
>* new media in social and economic contexts;
>the 'modern' society
>
>* culture, cybercultures, virtual reality and the
>impact of technologies
>
>* the rise of the internet, www, and
>online 'communities'
>
>* interaction, interactivity and interfaces
>
>* private and public space; regulation; risk
>
>* issues of access and control; knowledge
>management; security issues
>
>* social movements and the shaping of individual
>and collective identities
>
>* the impact and implications of increasing
>globalisation
>
>* cyberprotest, activism, anti-globalisation and
>social mobilisation
>
>This is purely an indicative list - papers are
>welcome on any related theme. There will also be an
>opportunity for a 'problem-solving' consultative
>exercise whereby projects in development from any
>context can be presented to the delegates for
>feedback and responses.
>
>Papers will be considered on any related theme.
>300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
>7th May 2004. If your paper is accepted for
>presentation at the conference, an 8 page draft
>paper should be submitted by Monday 19th July 2004.
>
>The conference is part of a larger series of
>ongoing projects entitled Critical Issues, which
>aim to encourage innovative cutting-edge dialogue
>and research by bringing together people from
>different disciplines, professions and interests.
>
>All papers accepted for and presented at the
>conference will be published as an ISBN eBook.
>Selected papers accepted for and presented at this
>conference will be published in a hard copy themed
>volume. One themed volume from the previous
>conference is in press.
>
>300 word abstracts should be submitted to both the
>Organising Joint Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
>WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats.
>
>Christopher Macallister
>Department of Politics and IR, University of Kent
>at Canterbury
>Canterbury
>United Kingdom
>Email: (cjm23 /at/ ukc.ac.uk)
>
>Dr Rob Fisher
>c/o Learning Solutions
>Priory House
>149B Wroslyn Road
>Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
>Email: (rf /at/ inter-disciplinary.net)
>
>For further details about the project please visit:
>http://www.inter-
>disciplinary.net/ci/mm/nmtc/nmtc2/nmtc.htm
>
>For further details about the conference please
>visit:
>http://www.inter-
>disciplinary.net/ci/mm/nmtc/nmtc2/nmtc04cfp.htm
>
>Enquiries: (rf /at/ inter-disciplinary.net)
>Web address: http://www.inter-
>disciplinary.net/ci/mm/nmtc/nmtc2/nmtc04cfp.htm

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