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INET'96: Call for Papers, Internet and Social Transformation
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 23:23:30 -0800
From: "HANS K. KLEIN"
INET'96 The Internet: Transforming Our Society Now 25 - 28 June 1996 Montreal, Canada
Call for Papers
INET'96, the 6th Annual Conference of the Internet Society focusing on worldwide issues of Internet networking will be held 25-28 June 1996 in Montreal, Canada. This call for papers emphasizes one topical area, "Internet and Social Transformation." The full conference announcement is included below.
Internet and Social Transformation
The Internet promises to redistribute access to information and communication. In so doing, it may weaken existing social hierarchies and empower individuals and groups. In this topical area we examine the issue of empowerment through two broad focus areas. First, we examine practices and projects by which empowering social change is occurring today. We seek papers documenting Internet-based transformative activities and relating them to larger questions of empowerment and social transformation. Second, we seek papers that critique existing social structures and relate them to on-going activities with the Internet. These papers might be more theoretically informed, bringing concepts from the social sciences to bear on existing hierarchies and to the real or potential effects of the Internet.
For suggestive purposes, the following areas are offered:
Internet and Politics How has the Internet been used in political activism? How has it been used by rebels in Chiapas, the American "militia," Israeli-Arab peace negotiators?
Internet and Democracy How has the Internet changed the democratic process in terms of group-formation, access to the policy process, on-line petitions, and grassroots organizing?
Power, Information, and the Mass Media Does the new technology facilitate greater editorial control in the media or allow a thousand flowers to bloom? How has it affected the techniques of journalists as they seek information and viewpoints?
Science Policy and Knowledge Diffusion What are the implications of the change from knowledge as a free value to knowledge as merchandise? How does it affect the production and diffusion of science and technology? What are the present and foreseeable impacts on international cooperation at the level of scientific and technological communities?
Political Economy and the Net What are the implications of the change from an economy based on labor value to one based on knowledge value? How does this affect employment, class, and equity? How has the Internet been used in conflict and cooperation between labor and management?
Internet and Developing Countries Will Internet foster a single world by empowering less wealthy countries or will it deepen the gap that divides the world in two? Does it bridge national political boundaries or does it reinforce old nationalisms and ethnic boundaries?
Lessons from History The Internet is the latest in a long line of technologies hailed as agents of social change. Is it really different from the printing press, broadcast television, public access cable TV, radio, or educational computing? What lessons can we learn from history?
Identity, Culture, Community Will the Internet transform who we are and where we belong? Will we be enriched or impoverished by entering a realm where space and place have less meaning?
Authors need not fit their proposals into this framework. All proposals dealing with social transformation are welcome. Theoretically-grounded papers are encouraged, but should be accessible by a broad audience.
One-page abstracts for INET'96 are due on January 15. However, this social transformation track will consider submissions until January 31. Full papers are due at the end of March. (Note: This is a change from the original conference announcement.)
Internet and Social Transformation Co-Chairs: Hebe Vessuri, Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research Hans Klein, CPSR and Institute of Public Policy/George Mason Univ.
========== INET'96 FULL CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT ==============
INET'96 The Internet: Transforming Our Society Now 25 - 28 June 1996 Montreal, Canada
Call for Papers
INET'96, the 6th Annual Conference of the Internet Society focusing on worldwide issues of Internet networking will be held 25-28 June 1996 in Montreal, Canada. This conference brings together those extending the reach and use of Internet networks. Participants include those developing and implementing Internet networks, applications, and policies for worldwide infrastructure development. The development of Internet networks in an ever wider variety of social, cultural, economic and linguistic contexts is also a focal point of this conference.
INET'96 will encompass certain horizontal threads reflecting the general tone of this conference. In particular, the desire to treat the Internet as a unified, complex, phenomenon meshing highly technical issues with deeply social, economic, and cultural concerns is stressed in order to help the whole world better understand the Internet revolution.
Conference Topics. Topics for paper submissions include but are not limited to the following:- Internet Applications and Services The Internet provides a foundation for the delivery of many advanced services. The technologies to deliver these services include advanced tools for managing, searching, and accessing distributed information. They also include techniques for dealing with multimedia, files systems, computing, collaboration, user interfaces, multiple language support and mobility.- Transforming Internet Commerce and Reshaping the Market Place The Internet and its related technologies provide an important platform for transformation of business and commercial activities. Business activities continue to evolve on the Internet. New product offerings such as commerce servers, publishing servers, community servers and electronic malls have captured the imagination of the public and many business leaders. Internet networks deeply transform the reach of firms, allowing small companies to have global reach. New forms of competition emerge with related questions about the nature and security of transactions, the need for new electronic currencies. New customer relationships emerge with implications for advertising and distribution and delivery of products and services.- Internet Learning and Teaching The Internet provides unparalled richness from the standpoint of the individual learner. Focused attention on organization and presentation of teaching and learning material in a highly interactive environment produces new learning and teaching paradigms. Organizations of all kinds including primary and secondary schools, post-secondary education institutions, government institutions and commercial enterprises seek to use the Internet and its related technologies to enhance the learning and teaching process.
The application of Internet technologies to education accelerates such developments as "just-in-time learning". Some of these trends deeply reshape functions and objectives of traditional learning institutions. Experiments with new teaching applications and the building of global communities also tranform the nature of education.- Networking Technology Frontiers The increasing sophistication of network applications and enormous growth in number of people using the Internet demand new networking solutions. Advanced technologies and services to expand, rationalize and manage core network services develop quickly. Networking designs, protocols, registry processes and services, transport services and security requirements continue to undergo rapid evolution to meet the growing demand.- Internet and Social Transformations The global Internet is affecting how people interact and how society works. Ideas and opinions flow faster and in new directions, and as a result power is being distributed in unexpected ways. Until the Internet, the growth of mass media pointed to a world with an increasingly homogeneous culture. Now, the Internet holds the promise to enhance cultural and linguistic diversity on a global scale. New kinds of communities are coming to light. Borders become porous to ideas, opinions, rumors and facts. Politics and governments are changing. If the Internet is truly the equivalent of printing with moveable type, what can we already say about its effect on our societies?- Growing and Regulating the Internet: Economic & Policy Issues More countries and the international community recognize Internet evolution as an important economic and policy issue. Major challenges continue as global and national communities struggle to understand the incremental nature of Internet evolution and how to encourage, regulate or discourage its use and growth. Advancing Internet technologies also cause redefinition of current economic activities, regulatory and economic policies, and political issues.- Expanding and Enhancing Internet Access Most parts of the world struggle to provide reliable access with reasonable performance. Many geographic areas also struggle to extend access to more individuals and institutions. Technical, economic, social and political barriers and solutions continue to evolve. Projects within geographic regions, countries and industries illustrate the nature of the challenges and the dimensions of potential solutions.- Internet Case Studies Individuals, organizations and governments use the Internet for a wide range of activities. These experiences, both successes and failures, form an important knowledge base of information about the Internet and also help define frontiers for further exploration and development.
Submissions.- The official language of the conference is English.- Papers will be selected based on one-page abstracts.- Abstracts must include the title or topic, the names of the author(s), organizational affiliation(s), addresses, telephone number, fax number, and E-mail addresses and must identify a single point of contact if more than one author is listed. Abstracts should also include a keyword list, tied to the topics listed above.- Upon acceptance papers must be resubmitted in the format required for publication in the proceedings. Detailed instructions will be provided upon acceptance.- Abstracts in plain ASCII text should be submitted by 15 January 1996 to: inet-submission@isoc.org
The Program Committee can be contacted at: inet-program@isoc.org
Developing Countries Workshop. The INET'96 Conference will be preceded by a seven-day program of intensive instruction with a hands-on emphasis on Internet set up, operations, maintenance and management.
For information and general questions about the Developing Countries Workshop, please send E-mail to: workshop-info@isoc.org
For an application to attend the Developing Countries Workshop, please send E-mail to: workshop-apply@isoc.org
Primary and Secondary School Workshop. The INET'96 Conference will also be preceded by a tentative two day program bringing together active Kindergarten thru Secondary School Internet innovators from around the world to share experiences and learn new advanced tools and collaboration techniques.
For information and general questions about the Primary and Secondary School Workshop, please send E-mail to:
inet-k12@isoc.org
Information concerning the conference is available from the Internet Society Secretariat:
URLs: http://www.isoc.org/conferences/inet96/ gopher://gopher.isoc.org:70/11/isoc/conferences/inet96/ ftp://ftp.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet96/ Email: inet96@isoc.org Tel: +1 703 648 9888 Fax: +1 703 648 9887 Address: INET'96 Internet Society Secretariat 12020 Sunrise Valley Dr., Suite 270 Reston VA 22091 USA Carol Gray Internet Society - International Secretariat 12020 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 210 Reston, VA 22091, USA voice: +1 703 648 9888 fax: +1 703 648 9887 http://www.isoc.org ```
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