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CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'00) |
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6-8 July 2000 Murdoch University, Perth, Australia |
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Send to: catac@it.murdoch.edu.au |
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| SUBMISSIONS All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel of scholars and researchers. There will be the opportunity for selected papers to appear in special issues of journals and a book. CATaC'98 papers, for example, appeared in the Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication (Vol.8, Nos.3-4, 1998) and will appear in the AI and Society Journal (Vol.14, No.1, 2000). Initial submissions are to be emailed to catac@it.murdoch.edu.au as an attachment (Word, HTML, PDF). Submission of a paper implies that it has not been submitted or published elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference. |
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| International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS
TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'00): Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences in
the Global Village Communication-mediated communication networks, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web, promise to realise the utopian vision of an electronic global village. But efforts to diffuse CMC technologies globally, especially in Asia and among indigenous peoples in Africa, Australia and the United States, have demonstrated that CMC technologies are neither culturally neutral nor communicatively transparent. Rather, diverse cultural attitudes towards technology and communication - those embedded in current CMC technologies, and those shaping the beliefs and behaviours of potential users - often collide. This biennial conference series aims to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies. The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme. The first conference in the series was held in London in 1998 (see http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/). For an overview of the themes and presentations of CATaC'98, see http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/01_ess.html. Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. Papers should articulate the connections between specific cultural values as well as current and/or possible future communicative practices involving information and communication technologies. We seek papers which, taken together, will help readers, researchers, and practitioners of computer-mediated communication - especially in the service of "electronic democracy" - better understand the role of diverse cultural attitudes as hindering and/or furthering the implementation of global computer communications systems. Topics of particular interested include but are not limited to: - Communicative attitudes and practices in diverse industrialised countries. - Communicative attitudes and practices in industrialising countries and marginalised communities. - Impact of information and communication technologies on local and indigenous languages and cultures. - Politics of the electronic global village in democratising or preserving hierarchy. - East/West cultural attitudes and communicative practices. - Role of gender in cultural expectations regarding appropriate communicative behaviours. - Ethical issues related to information and communication technologies, and the impact on culture and communication behaviours. - Legal implications of communication and technology. For additional details regarding conference venue, organizing personnel, editorial board, etc., please see the conference web sites as identified above. |
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