[ecrea] Call for Papers International conference "The Influence of New Media on Consciousness and Behavior of Youth"

The Department of Social Communication of the Faculty of Psychology
at National Research Tomsk State University ( NR TSU),
along with the partners, invites
postgraduate students, doctoral candidates, professors, lecturers, scientists,
and practitioners dealing with the problems of social communications
to take part in the International Scientific-Practical Internet-Conference
‘Connect-Universum 2012’ (29-31 May, 2012).

The theme of the conference is
‘The Influence of New Media on Consciousness and Behavior of Youth:
Interdisciplinary Approach'

The main idea of the ‘Connect-Universum’ as an international scientific forum on  the problems of social communications is providing the opportunity of the direct contact and connection. Therefore the Internet-format is the most suitable for the subject matter of such forum. ‘Connect’ is both a condition and a result of forming the modern ‘networks of intellectual communication’ (R. Collins); ‘invisible colleges’ – groups of scientists working in the new research area. Everybody can express their opinions about the object under consideration and be heard as in the information-communicative society every spot of the Earth, every city and every university can become an active Network cell, can be the initiator of communication. No matter how far the participants of the discussion are situated from each other. It is important that they have something to tell each other.
This year the theme of the International scientific Internet-discourse is ‘The Influence of New Media on Consciousness and Behavior of Youth: Interdisciplinary Approach’
‘New’ and, what is more important, ‘social’ media become extremely attractive for the young people and practically are one of the most effective ways of self-expression, ‘extension of the sense organs’ (M. McLuhan) in the process of electronic communication. However their rising popularity, causing drawing into online communication a huge number of young people, has positive and negative consequences for them and the whole society. The participants of the conference representing different spheres of scientific knowledge are to discuss diverse and controversial  potential of the influence of “new media” on youth’s consciousness and behavior.

Interdisciploinary approach to discussing the theme of the conference provides the opportunity to propose materials on various scientific areas such as philosophy, theory of communication, humanities informatics, neuro-physiology,   psychology, sociology, political sciences, culture sciences, semiotics, philology, theory of journalism, marketing, PR and advertising theory, pedagogics, social work, organization of work with youth, new media practice (case-study).

Issues suggested for discussion:

-	‘New Media’ as a complicated and ambivalent technological and socio-cultural phenomenon;
-	Influence of New Media on Human Brain;
-	Psychology of a Young Internet-User and a Member of the Network Society;
-	‘Network’ Identification and Self-Identification of Young People;
-	Global Search Engines and Cognitive Abilities of Young People;
-	Young People’s Manifestations of ‘New Media’ Addiction;
-	Main Trends in Developing of New Media;
-	Value Basis of Social Media;
-	Semiotics of New Media;
-	Languages of New Media;
-	Discursive Practice of New Media;
-	Synergetic Approach to the New Media Analysis;
-	 New Media Potential in Developing Innovation Ecosystems and in Production of New Goods,
      Technologies and Services;
-	 Network Humanities Technologies in Education and in Formation of Professional
      Characteristics of the Future Specialists;
-	New Media museum communication;
-	The Role of Media-Libraries in Formation of Young People’s Culture;
-	The Consequences of the Digital Inequality for Formation of the Professional Career;
-	Gender Resources of New Media in the Process of Self-Realization of Young People;
-	Opportunities of New Media for Young People with Limited Abilities;
-	PR and Advertising in New Media;
-	Young People as the Target Audience of New Media Political and Marketing Communications

Conference Program

The webinars of the key-speakers will be conducted at the three-day plenary session (Moscow time):
May 29th    14-30 – 18-00
May 30th       6-30 – 11-00
Ma7 31st       9-00 – 15-00

English will be the working language of the first two days of the conference (May 29-30th).
Russian will be the working language of the third day of the conference (May 31st).

Later all the presentations of the plenary session will be uploaded to the conference website (http://connect-universum.com   ) in both Russian and English languages.
More details will be provided in the next information letter.

To participate in the webinar must register at:http://webinar.ido.tsu.ru/connect-universum-2012/event/

There are three statuses proposed to the participants: ‘key-speaker’, ‘speaker’, and ‘participator’. Key-speakers will conduct online webinars at the plenary session of the conference. Speakers will provide their papers for uploading them to the conference online system and further publication in journals (optional). Participators will ask questions and comment on the papers during webinars or on the website after all the papers are published.

The participation in the conference and the placing of the materials on the site of the conference are free. The publication conditions will be provided to you later. The authors from other cities will receive their copies of issues by post. The authors of the papers chosen by the expert committee will be proposed to publish them in the partner journals for free (see ‘Organizers and Partners’ section of the website).

The materials provided by all the participants will have been published in appropriate sections on the forum of the conference by May 29, 2012. During two weeks the discussion on the reports will take place there.
Till June 18, 2012, every person can leave comments and questions to the reports on the site of the conference. It’s is an insistent request to all the participants of the discussion to specify their names and surnames while placing their questions and comments to the reports. On June 18, 2012 the opportunity to place comments will be disabled.

The additional information will be provided in ‘Documents’ section on the website of the International Scientific-Practical Web-Conference «Connect-Universum-2012»http://connect-universum.com   The website will function after March the 30th.


CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION IN THE INTERNET-CONFERENCE

In order to take part in the conference you should send your application and annotation of the report to the organizing committee of the conference to the email (addressconnect-universum2012 /at/ yandex.ru)  (with the subject of the letter ‘Application to the conference’)
or register yourself on the Conference website (http://connect-universum.com/registration) till April 5, 2012.

The full text of the report should be sent to the e-mail (addressconnect-universum2012 /at/ yandex.ru)  (with the subject of the letter ‘Report to the conference’) till April 30, 2012:

In the application should be pointed:

Surname __________________________________________________________
Name ____________________________________________________________
Place of employment ________________________________________________
Position __________________________________________________________
Academic rank, academic degree ______________________________________
The title of the report________________________________________________
Tel., e-mail ________________________________________________________
Mailing address for the delivery of the collection__________________________

The text of the report in the format MS Word in Russian or English for placing on the site of the conference and following publication (in the author's edition) designed in accordance with the requirements;
The annotation to the report must be given in Russian and in English (no more than 200 words);
The digital author’s photography must be attached to the sent materials. It is desirable that the report is accompanied with video presentation, illustrative materials.


REQUIREMENTSTO THE REPORTS
• _The volume of the presented materials is 2–8 pages in A4 format.
• _The formatting options:
• font — Times New Roman, size — 12 pt;
• single line spacing;
• margins: top and bottom — 2 cm, left — 2,5 cm, right 1,5 cm;
• justified alignment;
• tables and pictures should be fit into the format of the page;
• _The title of the article is centered, in capital letters (medium-face font), without hyphenation and without a period in the end of the title;
• _The author’s surname and initials (the authors’ surnames and initials) with the evidence of academic degree and position must be placed below the title, with a gap of 1 line, lowercase letters, centered;
• _On the next line the name of the organization, city and e-mail are indicated, a comma-separated, centered;
• _Below, with the gap of 1 line, the text of the report.
• _The references are placed in the alphabetical order in the end of the text.
The organizers reserve the right to select the articles for publication in the issue of the conference.


The organizing committee of the conference: the Department of Social Communication at Tomsk State University, Russia, Tomsk, Moscovsky trakt, 8, office 419.
Tel. 8 (3822) 529 537.http://pr.tsu.ru

Website of the conference:http://connect-universum.com



Best regards,

Julia Stakhovskaya,
senior lecturer of
the Department of Social Communication,
Tomsk State University


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