[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Association of Internet Researchers (Australia) (2/7/06; 9/27/06-9/30/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: M/C - Media and Culture <mc@media-culture.org.au>

CALL FOR PAPERS

IR 7.0: INTERNET CONVERGENCES
International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of
Internet Researchers

Brisbane, Australia
28-30 September 2006
Final date for proposal submission: 7 February 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 
filtering
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 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 500-750 words

- CREATIVE OR AESTHETIC PRESENTATIONS - submit abstract of 500-750 words

- PANELS - submit a 250-500 word description of the panel theme (and 
abstracts
of the distinct papers or presentations)

- ROUNDTABLE PROPOSALS - submit a 250-500 word 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

Submission site available: 1 December 2005

Final date for proposal submission: 7 February 2006

Presenter notification: 21 March 2006

Final workshop submission deadline: 31 March 2006

Submission of paper for publication/student award: 31 July 2006

Submission of paper for conference archive: 30 September 2006

CONTACT INFORMATION

Program Chair: Dr Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia,
sudweeks@murdoch.edu.au

Conference Chair: Dr Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology,
Australia, a.bruns@qut.edu.au

President of AoIR: Dr Matthew Allen, Curtin University of Technology,
Australia m.allen@curtin.edu.au

Association Website: http://www.aoir.org

Conference Website: http://conferences.aoir.org (from 1 December)



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