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> CALL FOR PAPERS
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> IR 7.0: INTERNET CONVERGENCES
> International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association
> of Internet Researchers
>
> Brisbane, Australia
> 28-30 September 2006
>
> Pre-Conference Workshops: 27 September 2006
>
> INTERNET CONVERGENCES
>
> The Internet works as an arena of convergence. Physically dispersed
> and marginalized people (re)find themselves online for the sake of
> sustaining and extending community. International and
> interdisciplinary teams now collaborate in new ways. Diverse
> cultures engage one another via CMC. These technologies relocate
> and refocus capital, labor and immigration, and they open up new
> possibilities for political, potentially democratizing, forms of
> discourse. Moreover, these technologies themselves converge in
> multiple ways, e.g. in Internet-enabled mobile phones, in Internet-
> based telephony, and in computers themselves as "digital
> appliances" that conjoin communication and multiple media forms.
> These technologies also facilitate fragmentations with greater
> disparities between the information-haves and have-nots, between
> winners and losers in the shifting labor and capital markets, and
> between individuals and communities. Additionally these
> technologies facilitate information filter!
> ing that reinforces, rather than dialogically challenges, narrow
> and extreme views.
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Our conference theme invites papers and presentations based on
> empirical research, theoretical analysis and everything in between
> that explore the multiple ways the Internet acts in both converging
> and fragmenting ways - physical, cultural, technological,
> political, social - on local, regional, and global scales.
>
> Without limiting possible proposals, topics of interest include:
>
> - Theoretical and practical models of the Internet
> - Internet convergence, divergence and fragmentation
> - Networked flows of information, capital, labor, etc.
> - Migrations and diasporas online
> - Identity, community and global communication
> - Regulation and control (national and global)
> - Internet-based development and other economic issues
> - Digital art and aesthetics
> - Games and gaming on the Internet
> - The Net generation
> - E-Sectors, e.g. e-health, e-education, e-business
>
> We call for papers, panel proposals, and presentations from any
> discipline, methodology, and community that address the theme of
> Internet Convergence. We particularly call for innovative,
> exciting, and unexpected takes on and interrogations of the
> conference theme. However, we always welcome submissions on any
> topics that address social, cultural, political, economic, and/or
> aesthetic aspects of the Internet and related Internet
> technologies. We are equally interested in interdisciplinary
> proposals as well as proposals from within specific disciplines.
>
> SUBMISSIONS
>
> We seek proposals for several different kinds of contributions. We
> welcome proposals for traditional academic conference papers, but
> we also encourage proposals for creative or aesthetic presentations
> that are distinct from a traditional written 'paper'. We welcome
> proposals for roundtable sessions that will focus on discussion and
> interaction among conference delegates, and we also welcome
> organized panel proposals that present a coherent group of papers
> on a single theme.
>
> This year AoIR will also be using an alternative presentation
> format in which a dozen or so participants who wish to present a
> very short overview of their work to stimulate debate will gather
> together in a plenary session involving short presentations (no
> more than 5 minutes) and extended discussion. All papers and
> presentations in this session will be reviewed in the normal
> manner. Further information will be available via the conference
> submission website.
>
> - PAPERS (individual or multi-author) - submit abstract of 500-750
> words
>
> - SHORT PRESENTATIONS - submit abstract of 500-700 words
>
> - CREATIVE OR AESTHETIC PRESENTATIONS - submit abstract of 500-700
> words
>
> - PANELS - submit a 250-500 word description of the panel theme and
> abstracts of the distinct papers or presentations
>
> - ROUNDTABLE PROPOSALS - submit a statement indicating the nature
> of the roundtable discussion and interaction.
>
> Papers, presentations and panels will be selected from the
> submitted proposals on the basis of multiple blind peer review,
> coordinated and overseen by the Program Chair. Each person is
> invited to submit a proposal for 1 paper or 1 presentation. People
> may also propose a panel of papers or presentations, of which their
> personal paper or presentation must be a part. You may submit an
> additional paper/presentation of which you are the co-author as
> long as you are not presenting twice. You may submit a roundtable
> proposal as well.
>
> Detailed information about submission and review is available at
> the conference submission website http://conferences.aoir.org. All
> proposals must be submitted electronically through this site.
>
> PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
>
> All papers presented at the conference are eligible for publication
> in the Internet Research Annual, on the basis of competitive
> selection and review of full papers. Additionally, several
> publishing opportunities are expected to be available through
> journals, again based on peer-review of full papers. Details on the
> website.
>
> GRADUATE STUDENTS
>
> Graduate students are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. Any
> student paper is eligible for consideration for the AoIR graduate
> student award. Students wishing to be a candidate for the Student
> Award must also send a final paper by 31 July 2006.
>
> PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
>
> Prior to the conference, there will be a limited number of pre-
> conference workshops which will provide participants with in-depth,
> hands-on and/or creative opportunities. We invite proposals for
> these pre-conference workshops. Local presenters are encouraged to
> propose workshops that will invite visiting researchers into their
> labs or studios or locales. Proposals should be no more than 1000
> words, and should clearly outline the purpose, methodology,
> structure, costs, equipment and minimal attendance required, as
> well as explaining its relevance to the conference as a whole.
> Proposals will be accepted if they demonstrate that the workshop
> will add significantly to the overall program in terms of thematic
> depth, hands on experience, or local opportunities for scholarly or
> artistic connections. These proposals and all inquires regarding
> pre-conference proposals should be submitted as soon as possible to
> the Conference Chair and no later than 31 March 2006.
>
> DEADLINES
>
> Final date for proposal submission: 7 February 2006
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> Presenter notification: 21 March 2006
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> Final workshop submission deadline: 31 March 2006
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> Submission for publication/student award: 31 July 2006
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> Submission for conference archive: 30 September 2006
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> CONTACT INFORMATION
>
> Program Chair: Dr Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia,
> sudweeks@...
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> Conference Chair: Dr Axel Bruns, Queensland University of
> Technology, Australia, a.bruns@...
>
> President of AoIR: Dr Matthew Allen, Curtin University of
> Technology, Australia m.allen@...
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> Association Website: http://www.aoir.org
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> Conference Website: http://conferences.aoir.org
>