CFP: Internet Research - Technologies as Crafts, Techniques and Systems (UK, Oct ‘12)

Internet Research 13.0 will focus on the theme of technologies, understood in the broadest sense as crafts, techniques, and systems. The conference will examine the place of the Internet in the contemporary world and in relation to a range of existing and emerging technologies, considering its impact in a context where life is entangled with technologies of all kinds as never before. The conference will bring together scholars, researchers, students and practitioners from many disciplines to map and situate the development of the Internet as part of the history of human technology.

Submissions Due: 1 March 2012 (Papers, Panels and Pre-Workshops)

Internet Research 13.0: Technologies. The 13th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). October 18-21, 2012. MediaCity:UK - University of Salford. Salford - Greater Manchester - UK. http://ir13.aoir.org

Internet Research 13.0 will focus on the theme of technologies, understood in the broadest sense as crafts, techniques, and systems. The conference will examine the place of the Internet in the contemporary world and in relation to a range of existing and emerging technologies, considering its impact in a context where life is entangled with technologies of all kinds as never before. The conference will bring together scholars, researchers, students and practitioners from many disciplines to map and situate the development of the Internet as part of the history of human technology.

To this end, we call for papers, panel and pre-conference workshop proposals from any discipline, methodology, community or a combination of them that address the conference themes, including, but not limited to, papers that intersect and/or interconnect with the following:

  • the speed and acceleration of technological change
  • the past, present and future of technology
  • emerging and converging technologies
  • educational technology
  • cultures of crafting
  • connectivity and access
  • space, location and mobile technologies
  • technology, networks and attachments
  • technology and the body
  • technologies of the self
  • technology, regulation and ethics

Find all details about this call on http://ir13.aoir.org

6 notes

Show

  1. mobile-broadbandservice reblogged this from medeamalmo
  2. buy-iphone-accessories reblogged this from medeamalmo
  3. gadget-of-this-year reblogged this from medeamalmo
  4. worldedness reblogged this from medeamalmo
  5. medeamalmo posted this

Blog comments powered by Disqus