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[RRE]Citizens at the Crossroads: Whose Information Society?
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:07:49 -0400
From: Bernd Frohmann
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The University of Western Ontario, Government of Canada's Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canadian International Development Agency Call for Papers CITIZENS AT THE CROSSROADS: WHOSE INFORMATION SOCIETY? October 21-24, 1999, London, ON Canada
Abstracts and papers are invited for a conference to address issues related to the growth of the knowledge-based economy and society. Specifically the conference, as part of a government-wide policy research agenda, will address citizenship in the information society by exploring the forces that advance and impede civic participation domestically and internationally, in the developing and developed world.
The conference is expected to attract both researchers and policy professionals.
Abstracts and papers are invited on these topics:
Ownership and control of electronic and other media networks, services and information; different forms of commercial and political control; impact on access and on the exercise of citizenship
Controversial content, censorship, propaganda, and privacy; tensions between freedom of expression and the control of illegal activities; new forms of propaganda and censorship; the protection of children
Civic knowledge, education, and participation: rights and responsibilities and citizenship in an information society; is a virtual education, education?; how the net and other forms of communication expand and constrain civic participation.
Democracy and political action: effects of new networks and the freer flow of information on national and other identities, political cultures and the way people mobilize for action within and across borders (esp. in biotechnology as information)
Human rights, diversity, and marginalization: importance of access to information and communication media for human rights; risks of marginalization and homogenization.
Abstracts: May 31, 1999 Papers: October 1, 1999
Submissions should be sent electronically to fims-conference@julian.uwo.ca and should include a one-page abstract of a paper or panel proposal in MS word or ASCII format. In addition, the Program Committee needs a one-page C.V. or biography, which includes citations of relevant work. Selected papers should be no more than 30 pages. Papers not received by the October 1 deadline will be removed from the program. The conference also intends to provide access to all accepted papers either through publication or via our web site. A monograph will be published based on a selected number of papers presented at the conference. Please check our web site at www.fims.uwo.ca after May 1 for conference and registration information.
Manjunath Pendakur, Dean Chair, Conference Program Committee Faculty of Information and Media Studies The University of Western Ontario London, ON N6A 5B7 Canada
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Bernd Frohmann, Associate Professor Faculty of Information & Media Studies The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A 5B7 CANADA voice: (519) 661-2111 ext. 4235 | fax: (519) 661-3506 http://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/faculty/frohmann.html ```
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