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>                         Shaping the Network Society
>
>                The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace
>
>                                   DIAC-00
>
>  A Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC) Symposium
>
>     Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
>
>
>                       First Call for Abstracts / Papers
>
>
>                            May 20 - May 23, 2000
>
>                           Seattle, Washington, USA
>    _________________________________________________________________
>
>Cyberspace may become the dominant medium through which people create
>and share information and ideas. How their conversations about the
>environment, culture, leisure, and political decisions, are conducted
>and how they are resolved are likely to have major social implications
>in the future. What directions and implications does cyberspace foretell
>for community, democracy, education and culture? Addressing those
>questions may be among the most urgent tasks facing humankind today.
>
>The objective of DIAC-00 is to integrate many perspectives,
>conversations, and people from around the world on the topic of public
>space in cyberspace: What is it? What should it be? What would we do
>with it? What can we do about it?
>
>While DIAC-00 will present "best practices" and other lessons learned
>"from the field" there is an urgent need for theoretical work (or
>"condensed practice") as well. For that reason, DIAC-00 is strongly
>encouraging reflective work on strategic and policy levels. There is
>enormous energy found at the grassroots level and it is growing. The big
>problem today is framing the idea of public space in cyberspace in a way
>that engages intellectuals, decision-makers, artists, and citizens. This
>can only be done by combining "best practice" stories with strong
>provocative conceptualizations of what is happening in our world and how
>public cyberspace can play a role. We need theories, concepts that can
>help us discuss, reflect, and take action on these critical matters. As
>an integral part of the DIAC-00 conference social scientists, engineers,
>computer scientists, artists, journalists, and other members of the
>research community will contribute their thinking on these pressing
>issues:
>
>      * Community Informatics
>      * Civic Knowledge, Civic Infrastructure
>      * New Tools, Applications, Services, and Institutions
>      * Theoretical Frameworks
>      * Methodological Frameworks
>      * Critical Theory
>      * Social Economy of the Internet
>      * Computers, Work, and Cyberspace
>      * New -- and Retooled -- Media
>      * Participatory and Community-Centered Design
>      * Community Initiatives
>      * Public Access and Community Networks
>      * Practitioner and Researcher Co-Learning
>      * Bridging the Digital Divide
>      * Cyberspace Policy -- Social Policy -- Cultural Policy
>      * Computer-Supported Community Work
>      * Localism and Globalism
>      * International Perspectives and Partnerships
>      * Social Movements and Collaborations
>
>DIAC-00 will be a multifaceted event. This call for abstracts / papers
>addresses the research or academic component of the symposium. There are
>other opportunities for participation within this framework. The
>guidelines for workshop proposals will be released soon.
>
>DIAC-00 will be the seventh symposium sponsored by Computer
>Professionals for Social Responsibility in the "Directions and
>Implications of Advanced Computing" series. DIAC-00 is intended to
>broaden the discussion and awareness about the future of cyberspace both
>in terms of topics and in terms of participation. It is also our intent
>to provide visibility to topics and perspectives that are often
>neglected by the media.
>
>Each extended abstract should contain a description and outline of the
>work, supporting evidence and data, and references. Abstracts and papers
>should be written in English. All extended abstracts should be submitted
>(in plain text only!) electronically to Peter Day
>(p.day at btinternet.com). Abstracts should be fewer than 2,000 words.
>Authors should remember that they will be addressing non-academics as
>well as academics at this conference and avoid jargon whenever possible.
>Citations should follow the Harvard Citation guidelines.
>
>Academic Program Committee: Phil Agre (US), Amy Bruckman (US), Natasha
>Bulashova (Russia), Steve Cisler (US), Greg Cole (US), Peter Day
>(co-chair; UK), Fiorella de Cindio (Italy), Susana Finquelievich
>(Argentina), Michael Gurstein (Canada), Toru Ishida (Japan), Peter
>Mambrey (Germany), Kate ODubhchair (UK), Volkmar Pipek (Germany), Jenny
>Preece (US), Lodis Rhodes (US), Douglas Schuler (co-chair; US), Lisa
>Servon (US), Erik Stolterman (Sweden), Peter van den Besselaar
>(Netherlands), Murali Venkatesh (US), Ken Young (Australia).
>
>Important Dates: February 15, 2000 extended abstracts due; March 15,
>2000 feedback given to authors; May 1, 2000 revised abstracts due. May
>20 - May 23, 2000 DIAC-00. The final papers, ready for book / journal,
>will be due sometime in summer 2000. We are planning to publish all
>submitted abstracts on our web site. We are planning to publish accepted
>papers in a book or journal. The academic program will be thoroughly
>integrated with the rest of DIAC-00.
>
>We are pleased to be a member of the Global 2000 Virtual Community
>Coalition. The Global 2000 Virtual Community Coalition is a loosely
>affiliated group of people, organizations, and events all over the world
>who are working together in the year 2000 to help promote democratic use
>of communication technology and discourage social exclusion due to
>inequitable access to communication.
>
>DIAC-00 is sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
>and co-sponsored by Friends and Partners. Please contact us if your
>organization would like to become a co-sponsor or endorser.  We'd like
>to thank the Morino Foundation for their support.
>
>For more information about the symposium, please see the web site
>(http://www.scn.org/cpsr/diac-00) or contact conference organizer Doug
>Schuler, douglas at cpsr.org, 206.634.0752.
>

peter