[Bilimsel Haber] CFP/Online CONF.: Technoculture/Computers and Writing Online 2007 (11/17/06; 2/5/07-2/9/07)

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CFP Technoculture
Computers and Writing Online 2007
February 5 through February 9, 2007

Conference Co-Chairs:
Dr. Keith Dorwick, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Dr. Kevin Moberly, St. Cloud State University

Conference Co-Chairs Keith Dorwick and Kevin Moberly are seeking
synchronous and asynchronous presentations that address a wide
conception of scholarship that focuses on a range of issues that could
be briefly summed up as “technology and society,” or, perhaps,
“technologies and societies.” Successful papers for this online
conference should focus on the ways humanists read technology as a
special case of cultural studies.

In particular, the conference co-chairs are interested in a conception
of “technology” and the “humanist impulse” that pushes beyond
contemporary American culture and its fascination with computers; we
seek papers that deal with any technology or technologies in any number
of historical periods from any relevant theoretical perspective.

Presentations from scholars in all disciplines who are working on the
intersection of culture and technology (see our now lapsed call for
"Technoculture," a special issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities
archived on this site for a further description of our interests) are
welcome. Papers need not focus on writing instruction, in spite of the
name of the conference, to be considered. Papers about how to do
or work with technology that do not look beyond the use of technology to
its cultural meaning will NOT be accepted.

NOTE ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: For years, the research of scholars involved
with the connections between computers and writing (CW) has focused
largely on, well, “computers” and “writing.” With the continued
maturation of that sub-discipline, CW scholars have begun to think about
a wider conception of our own work, with research and teaching that
focuses on a range of issues that could be briefly summed as “technology
and society.”

Successful presentations for Computers and Writing Online 2007 should
focus on the ways compositionists and other scholars currently studying
the use of technology might rethink our work and move beyond composition
to a larger focus on cultural studies that could include but not be as
dependent on writing instruction.

The keynote events will consist of panels comprising first, second and
third generation scholars (those who founded the subdiscipline without
specific training in CW but in other areas of English studies; those
trained by those first wave scholars specifically in CW; and those new
voices trained by specialists by training and research now graduating
and entering their careers) and other online events that focus on
where we’ve been and where we need to go.

For both asynchronous and synchronous events, eight page papers will be
due in .doc, .rtf, .pdf (or the hypertext equivalent) and placed on the
computersandwriting.org website for pre-conference reading by Jan. 31,
2007; discussions will follow during the conference period. The
conference will be held February 5 through February 9, 2007. Synchronous
events will be held in AcadianaMOO at http://acadianamoo.org;
asynchronous events will be held on the Computers and Writing website.

One page conference proposals due to kdorwick at louisiana.edu by midnight,
Friday November 17, 2006.


Dr. Keith Dorwick
Assistant Professor of English and Rhetoric
Department of English
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
P.O. Box 44691
Lafayette, LA 70504-4691
USA

Internet (VoIP) Number: 1 (773) 362 4707

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