[Eurchap] Fwd: [ciresearchers] Reminder --- Prato CIRN Conference 2013: abstracts for all streams due by May 15.
Michel Menou
michel.menou at orange.fr
Fri Apr 26 05:41:16 EDT 2013
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Subject: [ciresearchers] Reminder --- Prato CIRN Conference 2013:
abstracts for all streams due by May 15.
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:19:54 +0200
From: Larry Stillman <Larry.Stillman at monash.edu>
Reply-To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net, Larry Stillman
<Larry.Stillman at monash.edu>
To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net,
communityinformatics at vancouvercommunity.net
*Prato CIRN Conference Oct 28-30 2013, Monash Centre, Prato Italy:
Nexus, Confluence, and Difference: Community Archives meets Community
Informatics *
Dear Colleagues
You can now register your submission (refereed, non-referred PhD,
workshop, posters) via the database @ conftool.com/prato2013
<http://conftool.com/prato2013>. For more information about the
conference location, travel, and costs, see
cirn.wikispaces.com/prato2013 <http://cirn.wikispaces.com/prato2013>.
Please also forward this email.
In 2013 the Prato Conference is being jointly organised by CIRN, the
Center for Information as Evidence <http://legacy.gseis.ucla.edu/cie/>,
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and theCentre for
Organisational and Social Informatics
<http://infotech.monash.edu/research/about/centres/cosi/> at Monash
University. It will explore the rich synergy of experiences and
viewpoints amongst Community Informatics and Community Archives researchers.
Community Informatics is primarily concerned with improving the
wellbeing of people and their communities, through more effective use of
ICTs. Community Informatics foregrounds social change and transformative
action in emergent social-technical relationships rather than prediction
and control. This orientation also has much in common with Development
Informatics.
Community-centric archival research, education and practice are
concerned with empowering communities in support of such desirable
objectives as democracy, human and civil rights, self-determination,
sustainable development, and social inclusion. Recordkeeping and
archiving are fundamental infrastructural components supporting
community information, self-knowledge and memory needs, thus
contributing to resilient communities and cultures.
The 2012 Prato Conference was the first time that people from Community
Informatics and Community Archives came together. Much of the research
that CI people were reporting was of great interest to archivists
because it addressed memory and identity infrastructures and how
technologies can support them. New approaches to archival research,
education and practice that support community-based scholarship provide
an alternative lens for looking at Community Informatics research,
education and practice. Community Informatics researchers gained new
insights into the characteristics, motivations and interests of diverse,
often underrepresented communities.
2012 Conference participants identified a strong nexus between the two
areas of research in which closer interaction could result in
significant support for each other’s activity. There also appears to be
a strong alignment in values around the principles of
There also appears to be a strong alignment in values around the
principles of transformative research, social justice, and giving voices
to those who currently lack a voice.
* Some topics to consider for conference papers, and presentations or
special workshops.*
* How can Community Informatics and Community Archives inform each other?
* How might such cross-fertilization or convergence (professional,
practical, conceptual) be encouraged?
* The dark side of community activity; dealing with suspicion, trauma,
failure or hostility and their legacies.
* How do we use and tell stories ethically and effectively?
* Addressing incommensurability in community-based research.
* Community-aware management, storage and ownership of community data
and technology.
* Participatory methodologies in Community Informatics and Community
Archives research
* The relationship of other frameworks such as Citizenship Journalism
or Community-based research to Community Informatics and Community
Archives
* Working with the hard end of the Information Sciences.
*Other Papers and Presentations*
We also welcome papers (refereed, non-referred, works in progress) in
any other area of Community Informatics, Development Informatics,
Community Archives and related disciplines. We embrace
interdisciplinarity, and Prato is the ideal place to share ideas!
*PhD colloquium*
We also encourage PhD students in any of these disciplines to
participate in the PhD symposium. Many students have gained much from
participation in this activity.
*Dates and Processes*
In order to enhance the quality of papers in all streams, Program
Chairs will take an active role in guiding papers through the review
process and deadlines will be adhered to.
The following kinds of papers are sought:
* Full papers for blind peer review by at least 2 reviewers (up to
6000 words).
* Works in progress and more speculative pieces (reviewed and
selected, but not peer reviewed)
* Non refereed papers, including practitioner reports (up to 6000 words).
* PhD papers which provide an outline of current or proposed PhD
research (between 2-3000 words, including references).
* Proposals for workshops or panel discussions.
* Proposals for posters.
* Conference papers for all categories MUST use the conference format at *
You can only submit abstracts and proposals via the conference database
@ conftool.com/prato2013 <http://conftool.com/prato2013>
* Call for papers & proposals. Expressions of interest conference
website. Abstracts/papers can only be submitted through the
conference database which will be made available. Submit the
abstract in the online form, not as an attachment. Abstracts up to
550 words. Please submit by May 15 to avoid disappointment.
* Acceptance/modification/ rejection notices As soon as possible
thereafter
* Full papers and abstracts for all streams due 1 July 2013. The
conference format can be accessed @
http://cirn.wikispaces.com/file/view/Prato2013.doc .
* Referee reports to participants by 1 September 2013
* Final version of papers, based on peer review and program committee
decisions due 1 October September 2013
* Conference proceedings Online
* Registrations Available from 1 July
* Post-conference ½ day workshop October 31 October 2013 (more
information will be posted).
*Conference Chairs (partial)*
* Sue McKemmish, Monash University
* Anne Gilliland, UCLA
* Tom Denison, Monash University
* Aldo de Moor, CommunitySense, Netherlands
* Larry Stillman, Monash University
* Nicola Strizzolo, Univ. of Udine, Italy
*Committee (partial)*
* Patricia Arnold, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
* Fiorella de Cindio, University of Milan, Italy
* Mike Arnold, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Ann Bishop, Univ. of Illinois, USA
* Gunilla Bradley, Royal Institute of Tech., Sweden
* Peter Day, University of Brighton, UK
* Wallace Chigona, Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa
* Barbara Craig, Victoria Univ. of Wellington, NZ
* Aldo de Moor, CommunitySense, Netherlands
* Vesna Dolnicar, University of Lubljana, Slovenia
* Alison Elliot, University of Sydney, Australia
* Manuela Farinosi, University of Udine, Italy
* Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine, Italy
* Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington, Seattle
* Marlien Herselman, Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa
* Sarai Lastra, Turabo Univ., Puerto Rico
* Mike Martin, University of Newcastle, UK
* TJ McDonald, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* William McIver, Jr, National Research Council Canada
* Mauro Sarrica, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
* Douglas Schuler, The Public Sphere Project, The Evergreen State
College, USA
* Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
* Steve Thompson, Teesside University, UK
* Will Tibben, University of Wollongong, Australia
* Janet Toland, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
* Emiliano Trere,Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México
* Gilson Schwartz, Univ. São Paulo, Brazil
* Andy Williamson, Future Digital, UK
* Martin Wolske, University of Illinois, USA
Conference Organisation
* Larry Stillman, Monash University, Australia
* Amalia Sabiescu, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
* Nemanja Memarovic, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Queries to prato2013 at fastmail.fm <mailto:prato2013 at fastmail.fm>
Larry Stillman, PhD
for the Conference.
**********************
Larry Stillman, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Community Networking Research
& Oxfam Australia-Monash Collaboration
Monash University
http://ccnr.infotech.monash.edu www.webstylus.net
61 3 9903 1801
Not of the Academy of Lagado
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