Inet'96 (fwd)
Vladimir Vrabec
vrabec at cs.felk.cvut.cz
Sun Dec 24 12:25:00 CET 1995
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 23:23:30 -0800
From: "HANS K. KLEIN" <hklein at osf1.gmu.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list cpsr-announce at cpsr.org" <errors at snyside.sunnyside.com>
Subject: INET'96: Call for Papers, Internet and Social Transformation
INET'96
The Internet: Transforming Our Society Now
25 - 28 June 1996 Montreal, Canada
** Call for Papers **
INET'96, the 6th Annual Conference of the Internet Society
focusing on worldwide issues of Internet networking will be held
25-28 June 1996 in Montreal, Canada. This call for papers emphasizes
one topical area, "Internet and Social Transformation." The full
conference announcement is included below.
*Internet and Social Transformation*
The Internet promises to redistribute access to information
and communication. In so doing, it may weaken existing social
hierarchies and empower individuals and groups.
In this topical area we examine the issue of empowerment through
two broad focus areas. First, we examine practices and projects
by which empowering social change is occurring today. We seek
papers documenting Internet-based transformative activities and
relating them to larger questions of empowerment and social
transformation.
Second, we seek papers that critique existing social
structures and relate them to on-going activities with the
Internet. These papers might be more theoretically informed,
bringing concepts from the social sciences to bear on existing
hierarchies and to the real or potential effects of the Internet.
For suggestive purposes, the following areas are offered:
Internet and Politics
How has the Internet been used in political activism? How has it
been used by rebels in Chiapas, the American "militia,"
Israeli-Arab peace negotiators?
Internet and Democracy
How has the Internet changed the democratic process in terms of
group-formation, access to the policy process, on-line petitions,
and grassroots organizing?
Power, Information, and the Mass Media
Does the new technology facilitate greater editorial control in
the media or allow a thousand flowers to bloom? How has it
affected the techniques of journalists as they seek information
and viewpoints?
Science Policy and Knowledge Diffusion
What are the implications of the change from knowledge as
a free value to knowledge as merchandise? How does it affect the
production and diffusion of science and technology? What are the
present and foreseeable impacts on international cooperation at
the level of scientific and technological communities?
Political Economy and the Net
What are the implications of the change from an economy based on
labor value to one based on knowledge value? How does this
affect employment, class, and equity? How has the Internet been
used in conflict and cooperation between labor and management?
Internet and Developing Countries
Will Internet foster a single world by empowering less wealthy
countries or will it deepen the gap that divides the world in
two? Does it bridge national political boundaries or does it
reinforce old nationalisms and ethnic boundaries?
Lessons from History
The Internet is the latest in a long line of technologies hailed
as agents of social change. Is it really different from the
printing press, broadcast television, public access cable TV,
radio, or educational computing? What lessons can we learn from
history?
Identity, Culture, Community
Will the Internet transform who we are and where we belong? Will
we be enriched or impoverished by entering a realm where space
and place have less meaning?
Authors need not fit their proposals into this framework.
All proposals dealing with social transformation are welcome.
Theoretically-grounded papers are encouraged, but should be
accessible by a broad audience.
One-page abstracts for INET'96 are due on January 15. However,
this social transformation track will consider submissions until
*January 31*. Full papers are due at the end of March.
(Note: This is a change from the original conference announcement.)
Internet and Social Transformation Co-Chairs:
Hebe Vessuri, Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research
Hans Klein, CPSR and Institute of Public Policy/George Mason Univ.
========== INET'96 FULL CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT ==============
INET'96
The Internet: Transforming Our Society Now
25 - 28 June 1996 Montreal, Canada
Call for Papers
INET'96, the 6th Annual Conference of the Internet Society
focusing on worldwide issues of Internet networking will be held
25-28 June 1996 in Montreal, Canada. This conference brings
together those extending the reach and use of Internet networks.
Participants include those developing and implementing Internet
networks, applications, and policies for worldwide infrastructure
development. The development of Internet networks in an ever
wider variety of social, cultural, economic and linguistic
contexts is also a focal point of this conference.
INET'96 will encompass certain horizontal threads reflecting the
general tone of this conference. In particular, the desire to
treat the Internet as a unified, complex, phenomenon meshing
highly technical issues with deeply social, economic, and
cultural concerns is stressed in order to help the whole world
better understand the Internet revolution.
Conference Topics. Topics for paper submissions include but are
not limited to the following:
o Internet Applications and Services
The Internet provides a foundation for the delivery of many
advanced services. The technologies to deliver these services
include advanced tools for managing, searching, and accessing
distributed information. They also include techniques for
dealing with multimedia, files systems, computing, collaboration,
user interfaces, multiple language support and mobility.
o Transforming Internet Commerce and Reshaping the Market Place
The Internet and its related technologies provide an important
platform for transformation of business and commercial
activities. Business activities continue to evolve on the
Internet. New product offerings such as commerce servers,
publishing servers, community servers and electronic malls have
captured the imagination of the public and many business leaders.
Internet networks deeply transform the reach of firms, allowing
small companies to have global reach. New forms of competition
emerge with related questions about the nature and security of
transactions, the need for new electronic currencies. New
customer relationships emerge with implications for advertising
and distribution and delivery of products and services.
o Internet Learning and Teaching
The Internet provides unparalled richness from the standpoint of
the individual learner. Focused attention on organization and
presentation of teaching and learning material in a highly
interactive environment produces new learning and teaching
paradigms. Organizations of all kinds including primary and
secondary schools, post-secondary education institutions,
government institutions and commercial enterprises seek to use
the Internet and its related technologies to enhance the learning
and teaching process.
The application of Internet technologies to education accelerates
such developments as "just-in-time learning". Some of these
trends deeply reshape functions and objectives of traditional
learning institutions. Experiments with new teaching applications
and the building of global communities also tranform the nature
of education.
o Networking Technology Frontiers
The increasing sophistication of network applications and
enormous growth in number of people using the Internet demand new
networking solutions. Advanced technologies and services to
expand, rationalize and manage core network services develop
quickly. Networking designs, protocols, registry processes and
services, transport services and security requirements continue
to undergo rapid evolution to meet the growing demand.
o Internet and Social Transformations
The global Internet is affecting how people interact and how
society works. Ideas and opinions flow faster and in new
directions, and as a result power is being distributed in
unexpected ways. Until the Internet, the growth of mass media
pointed to a world with an increasingly homogeneous culture. Now,
the Internet holds the promise to enhance cultural and linguistic
diversity on a global scale. New kinds of communities are coming
to light. Borders become porous to ideas, opinions, rumors and
facts. Politics and governments are changing. If the Internet
is truly the equivalent of printing with moveable type, what can
we already say about its effect on our societies?
o Growing and Regulating the Internet: Economic & Policy Issues
More countries and the international community recognize Internet
evolution as an important economic and policy issue. Major
challenges continue as global and national communities struggle
to understand the incremental nature of Internet evolution and
how to encourage, regulate or discourage its use and growth.
Advancing Internet technologies also cause redefinition of
current economic activities, regulatory and economic policies,
and political issues.
o Expanding and Enhancing Internet Access
Most parts of the world struggle to provide reliable access with
reasonable performance. Many geographic areas also struggle to
extend access to more individuals and institutions. Technical,
economic, social and political barriers and solutions continue to
evolve. Projects within geographic regions, countries and
industries illustrate the nature of the challenges and the
dimensions of potential solutions.
o Internet Case Studies
Individuals, organizations and governments use the Internet for a
wide range of activities. These experiences, both successes and
failures, form an important knowledge base of information about
the Internet and also help define frontiers for further
exploration and development.
Submissions.
o The official language of the conference is English.
o Papers will be selected based on one-page abstracts.
o Abstracts must include the title or topic, the names of the
author(s), organizational affiliation(s), addresses, telephone
number, fax number, and E-mail addresses and must identify a
single point of contact if more than one author is listed.
Abstracts should also include a keyword list, tied to the topics
listed above.
o Upon acceptance papers must be resubmitted in the format
required for publication in the proceedings. Detailed
instructions will be provided upon acceptance.
o Abstracts in plain ASCII text should be submitted by 15 January
1996 to: inet-submission at isoc.org
The Program Committee can be contacted at: inet-program at isoc.org
Developing Countries Workshop.
The INET'96 Conference will be preceded by a seven-day program of
intensive instruction with a hands-on emphasis on Internet set
up, operations, maintenance and management.
For information and general questions about the Developing
Countries Workshop, please send E-mail to: workshop-info at isoc.org
For an application to attend the Developing Countries Workshop,
please send E-mail to: workshop-apply at isoc.org
Primary and Secondary School Workshop.
The INET'96 Conference will also be preceded by a tentative two
day program bringing together active Kindergarten thru Secondary
School Internet innovators from around the world to share
experiences and learn new advanced tools and collaboration
techniques.
For information and general questions about the Primary and
Secondary School Workshop, please send E-mail to:
inet-k12 at isoc.org
Information concerning the conference is available from the
Internet Society Secretariat:
URLs: http://www.isoc.org/conferences/inet96/
gopher://gopher.isoc.org:70/11/isoc/conferences/inet96/
ftp://ftp.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet96/
Email: inet96 at isoc.org
Tel: +1 703 648 9888
Fax: +1 703 648 9887
Address: INET'96
Internet Society Secretariat
12020 Sunrise Valley Dr., Suite 270
Reston VA 22091
USA
Carol Gray
Internet Society - International Secretariat
12020 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 210
Reston, VA 22091, USA
voice: +1 703 648 9888 fax: +1 703 648 9887
http://www.isoc.org
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