Fwd: Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, Berkeley, February 2005 - Call for Papers

[Susan Penfield]

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>Dear Colleague,
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>I am writing to you on behalf of the Conference Organising Committee to
>inform you of the call-for-papers for:
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>THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY
>University of California, Berkeley, Friday 18 - Sunday 20 February 2005
>http://www.Technology-Conference.com
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>This conference takes a broad and cross-disciplinary approach to
>technology in society. With a particular focus on digital information and
>communications technologies, the interests addressed by the conference
>include: human usability, technologies for citizenship and community
>participation, and learning technologies. Participants will include
>researchers, teachers and practitioners whose interests are either
>technical or humanistic, or whose work crosses over between the applied
>technological and social sciences.
>
>As well as an impressive line up of international main speakers, the
>conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium
>presentations. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the
>conference call for papers. Papers submitted for the conference
>proceedings will be fully peer-refereed and published in print and
>electronic formats in the new International Journal of Technology,
>Knowledge and Society. If you are unable to attend the conference in
>person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit
>a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed
>academic journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the
>conference proceedings. The deadline for the first round call for papers
>is 30 November 2004. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission.
>
>Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form,
>are to be found at the conference website.
>
>Yours Sincerely,
>
>
>Dr Christopher Scanlon
>The Globalism Institute
>RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
>
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Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.
Department of English
   The Writing Program
   Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Ph.D. Program (affiliate faculty)
   Indigenous Languages and Technology
Southwest Center, Research Associate in Anthropology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721