[ecrea] cfp - Digital Nomadism as a Global and Siberian,Trend

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

We invite researchers and practitioners who are interested in the
phenomenon of digital nomadism to participate in a three-day discussion
in the form of a webinar.

•All the speakers will be provided with personal pages in two languages
on the website of the Conference.

•Conference application form should be sent to
(connectuniversum /at/ gmail.com)

•Registration will be announced one month prior to the Conference.

•Participation in the Conference and publication on the website of the
Conference are free of charge. Conditions of publication in the issue
will be announced additionally.


Organizers of the Conference:
•	TSU Center for Research “Trans-Siberian Scientific Way”
•	TSU Department of Social Communication
•	Laboratory of Liberal New Media Technologies of the TSU Faculty of
Psychology

Partners of the Conference:
•	Research Center for Semiotics, Technical University of Berlin
•	Tomsk Regional Non-Profit Organization “Strategy of Success”

Digital nomads are people who work, study, create, and rest remotely
from a certain place, using Internet technologies and mobile connection.
Originally, such people used to be 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 communication society. Digital nomadism is a factor of
serious anthropological changes that effect social, material, and
intellectual culture. It also helps 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 meta-language used to describe it, as well as its
prospects and consequences for the humanity in general.

We might presuppose, that the influence of different climatic,
geopolitical, and socio-cultural factors (such as deglaciation of the
Arctic, the risk of Islamic fundamentalism in the Central Asia, issues
of employment for the people fled from some countries of Europe and the
Eastern Asia, internationalization of higher education, etc.) will lead
to increasing the migration and nomadic flow in Siberia, which, in its
turn, will lead to making Siberia one of the global communication hubs.
This requires new organization of Siberian cities as oases for digital
nomads, regarding their directions of mobility, types of professional
and\or education activity, and their multi-cultural interaction via
social network and other communication platforms. Siberia may and must
become a territory attractive for city digital nomads, who move within
one metropolis, as well as for global digital nomads, who explore new
conservation areas on the global scale.

Both aspects of digital nomadism – global and local – disclose new
horizons for fundamental and applied research of transdisciplinary and
socio-cultural nature with possible application of the results in
different spheres of socio-cultural practices (such as development of
infrastructure for residents, professional activity, education, and
leisure; manufacture of nomadic goods and technologies, etc.).


Preliminary consent of participation was given by the following
key-speakers:

•	Dr. John W. Moravec – faculty member in the Department of
Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development and the Innovation
Studies/Master of Liberal Studies graduate programs at the University of
Minnesota; Founder and Principal Member at Education Futures,
researcher, writer, and speaker. Author/Editor of Knowmad Society.
Research and action scholarship agenda are focused on the convergence of
globalization, knowledge society, and accelerating change in education;
and building positive futures for “PreK-21” education.


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

•	Professor Roland Posner - Professor of the Department of Linguistics
and Semiotics, Institute of Language and Communication, TUB, 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'').

•	Saskia Sassen – Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Chairs The
Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, 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.

•	Professor John Urry – Professor at Lancaster University, Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts, a Founding Academician of the UK Academy of
Learned Societies for the Social Sciences and a Visiting Professor at
both Bristol and Roskilde Geography Departments, author of books on many
aspects of modern society including the transition away from 'organized
capitalism', the sociology of nature and environmentalism, and social
theory in general, Editor in chief of International Library of Sociology
book series.

The working languages of the Conference are Russian and English.

The exemplary issues to be discussed are:

•	Ontology of the network information communication society, which
predetermined the appearance of digital nomadism.
•	Technological factors, which led to appearance and spread of digital
nomadism.
•	Netocracy (Bard and Zoderquist) and digital nomadism.
•	Classification of digital nomadism
•	Anthropological issues of digital nomadism.
•	Semiotic approach to describing digital nomadism as a socio-cultural
phenomenon.
•	Socio-psychological profiles of digital nomads.
•	Issues of designing city environment, city planning, and architecture,
regarding development of digital nomadism.
•	Social and other types of risks, connected with digital nomadism.
•	Philosophy of the digital nomads' lifestyle: combination of hedonism
and austerity.
•	Political, economic, and legal regulation of the digital nomads'
lifestyle.
•	Professional activity of digital nomads.
•	Education environment for digital nomads.
•	Digital nomads as researchers: opportunities and study of previous
experience.
•	Creative activity of digital nomads in the light of the modern art.
•	Digital nomads as a new target audience for marketing communication.
•	Prospects of development of digital nomadism as a global social
phenomenon in the light of the regional aspect.
•	Designing "conservation areas" for digital nomads (development of
infrastructure in Siberian region).

Other issues proposed by the participants are welcome.


The Organizing Committee of the Conference:

(connectuniversum /at/ gmail.com)
http://connect-universum.com







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