[Sigiii-l] Fwd: CATaC12 Call for Papers

[M.J. Menou]

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> Dear colleagues
>
> The theme for this year's Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and
> Communication Conference (CATaC12) is:
>
> Beyond the digital/cultural divide: in/visibility and new media.
>
> The conference will take place 18-20 June 2012, at Aarhus University,
> Aarhus, Denmark.  Please see http://www.catacconference.org for more
> details.

>
> KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
>
> * Dr. Rasha Abdullah (Associate Professor and Chair of the
> Journalism&  Mass Communication Department, The American University
> in Cairo). Provisional title: "Lessons from Egypt: The roles and
> limits of social media in political activism and transformation"
>
> * Dr. Randi Markussen (Associate Professor and Head of Group,
> Technologies in Practice, IT University of Copenhagen). Provisional
> title: "E-Voting and Public Control of Elections"
>
> The biennial CATaC conference series, begun in 1998, has become a
> premierinternational forum for current research on the complex
> interactions between culturally-variable norms, practices, and
> communication preferences, andinteraction with the design,
> implementation and use of information and communication technologies
> (ICTs).
>
> Our 2012 conference, as the title suggests, begins with the
> recognition that the ongoing issues and challenges clustering around
> digital divides - often involving mutually reinforcing cultural
> divides - extends beyond classic and stubborn problems of access to
> new media and communication technologies.
>
> For example, matters of representation come into play, issuing in a
> cluster of questions:
>
> - Whose images and words are seen/presented/promoted and whose
> aren't? And why? If activists are using new media to represent
> realities of, say, oppressed indigenous people in a given country, is
> this better than no visibility at all, even if the people in question
> do not have access or skills to present themselves as subjects?
>
> - In particular: Local and indigenous HCI/ID is about making visible
> the semiotic scripts and political processes of meaning construction
> that shape the process of technology design and knowledge
> representation from a sociotechnical perspective. Making visible
> these scripts enables the assessment of the value of these tools and
> frameworks from indigenous and/or local perspectives. Key concerns
> here are (1) to examine the meaning and validity of democratic values
> that drive participatory design as a discipline, and (2) to question
> 'exported' representations of what constitutes good usability and
> user experience.
>
> And: - How do new practices of cloaking messages in otherwise public
> or semi-public media; for example, the strategies of online
> steganography work to create intentional invisibility in otherwise
> visible spaces? Are there important culturally-variable elements in
> these practices that, when brought to the foreground, help illuminate
> and clarify them in new ways?
>
> Finally: - What are the role(s) of (culturally) diverse
> understandings and representations of gender in structuring the
> frameworks and practices of design and implementation. How do these
> roles foster the visibility of some vis-a-vis the invisibility of
> 'others' (in Levinas' sense, in particular)?
>
> Additional submissions are encouraged that address further conference
> points of emphasis: - Theoretical and practical approaches to
> analyzing 'culture' - New layers of imaging and texting interactions
> fostering and/or threatening cultural diversity - Impact of mobile
> technologies on privacy and surveillance - Gender, sexuality and
> identity issues in social networks - Cultural diversity in e-learning
> and/or m-learning - Culturally-variable approaches to online identity
> management/creation, privacy, trust Copyright and intellectual
> property rights: recent developments, culturally-variable future
> directions - Culturally-variable responses to commodification in
> online environments
>
> Both short (3-5 pages) and long (10-15 pages) original papers are
> sought for presentation.  Panel proposals addressing a specific theme
> or topic arealso encouraged.
>
> Our provisional schedule:
>
> Submission of papers (short or full), panel proposals: 17 February
> 2012 Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2012 Final formatted papers
> (for conference proceedings): 19 April 2012 Conference: 18-20 June
> 2012
>
> Further details regarding program (including keynote speakers and
> pre-conference activities), registration fees, travel and
> accommodations will be available soon on the conference website,
> http://www.catacconference.org.
>
> We look forward to welcoming you to Aarhus next June!
>
> Charles Ess (IMV, Aarhus University, Denmark), Chair
>
> Fay Sudweeks (Professor Emerita, Murdoch University, Australia),
> HonoraryChair
>
> Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna, Austria)
>
> Leah Macfadyen (University of British Columbia, Canada)
>
> Jose Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London, UK)
>
> Kenneth Reeder (University of British Columbia, Canada)
>
> Ylva Hård af Segerstad (Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden))
>
> Michele M. Strano (Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA)
>
> Andra Siibak (University of Tartu, Estonia)
>
> Maja van der Velden (University of Oslo)
>
>




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