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Rhetorics and Politics of the Information Society
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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 14:11:51 +0200
From: Matti Malkia
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International Social Science Council, Standing Committee on Conceptual and Terminolocical Analysis (ISSC/COCTA)
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First call for papers
RHETORICS AND POLITICS OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: Behind the Theories, Visions, Texts, and Programs
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Information Society is one of the most popular catch words of our time. For many of us Information Society is the slogan for technological paradise, the Brave New World of the turn of the Century. Thus Information Society is the promise, the salvation and the ultimate solution for many of our current economic, social and political problems: Information Society is the Way out of the Darkness into the Light.
International Social Science Council, Standing Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (ISSC/COCTA) is organizing a set of sessions on the topic of
RHETORICS AND POLITICS OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY.
Papers which take a deeper look to and beyond this topic are invited to these sessions. The expression "Rhetorics and Politics" should be understood broadly, to cover a wide variety of approaches analysing- basic underlying assumptions, motives, strategies and goals- cognitive categories, concepts and conceptualizations- argumentative structures and reasoning- discoursive styles, patterns and contexts
of the recent texts, visions and programs for and against Information Society, or theories about Information Society. The main target is to scrutinize how the topic "information society" is socially constructed or conceptualised and how these conceptualizations are related to different theoretical, practical or political contexts.
The organizers are planning to compile a book based on a selection of papers presented at these sessions.
During 1998 sessions are organized at the occasion of two international conferences. The first part of these sessions will be organized at conference "Crossroads in Cultural Studies: 2nd International Conference", to be held at Tampere, Finland, June 28th - July 1st, 1998. For general information on this conference see
http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/sosio/culture/index.html
The second part of the sessions will be organized at the International Sociological Association's 14th World Congress of Sociology, to be held at Montreal, Canada, July 26th - August 1st, 1998. The ISA sessions (2 sessions) will be part of the program of the Research Committee 35, Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (ISA/COCTA). For more information concerning the ISA World Congress see http://www.BCOC.UMontreal.CA/socio98/ or
http://www.ucm.es/OTROS/isa/cong.htm
PARTICIPATION
Persons interested in participating these sessions should offer their papers, including a provisional title and short abstract (about 150 words), to the gonvenor (address below) as soon as possible.
More information on the sessions, including final deadlines and the provisional programs will be emailed or sent to the participants and to the persons expressing their interest to participate.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For further information, please contact
Matti M=E4lki=E4 University of Tampere Department of Administrative Science P.O. Box 607 FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland
Tel. +358-40-5042498 (cellular); +358-3-2156362 (office) Fax: +358-3-215 6020 Email: malkia@uta.fi
WWW-Information page: http://www.uta.fi/~malkia
Additional information on International Social Science Council and its Standing Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (ISSC/COCTA) can be found from:
http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/hallinto/issc.htm/
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Matti Malkia Matti M=E4lki=E4 University of Tampere Tampereen yliopisto Dept of Administrative Science Hallintotieteen laitos P.O. Box 607 PL 607 FIN-33101 TAMPERE 33101 TAMPERE Finland
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Email Internet: malkia@uta.fi
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