14.0026 CATAC'00 update

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                    Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 26.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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             Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 05:47:34 +0100
             From: "Fay Sudweeks" <sudweeks@murdoch.edu.au>
             Subject: CATAC'00

    Hi all
    Here's the latest update on CATAC'00.
    Hope to see you in Perth in July.
    Fay

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    REGISTER NOW ....

    Register for CATaC'00 by 9 June 2000 to take advantage of the discount
    registration fees!

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    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

    International Conference on
    CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND
    COMMUNICATION (CATaC'00):
    Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences in the Global Village

    12-15 July 2000, Fremantle, Australia
    http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/
    http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac00

    Computer-mediated communication networks, such as the Internet and the World
    Wide Web, promise to realise the utopian vision of an electronic global
    village. But efforts to diffuse CMC technologies globally, especially in
    Asia and among indigenous peoples in Africa, Australia and the United
    States, have demonstrated that CMC technologies are neither culturally
    neutral nor communicatively transparent. Rather, diverse cultural attitudes
    towards technology and communication - those embedded in current CMC
    technologies, and those shaping the beliefs and behaviours
    of potential users - often collide.

    This biennial conference series aims to provide an international forum for
    the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research on how diverse
    cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and
    communication technologies. The conference series provides diverse
    perspectives, both in terms of cultures and disciplines. The first
    conference in the series was held in London in 1998 (see
    http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/ for copies of the papers
    presented).

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    PROGRAM
    The focus of the conference is on discussion of the issues raised in
    presentations by a variety of scholars representing Australia, France,
    Germany, Hungary, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, South Africa,
    Spain, UK, USA and Venezuela (see
    http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/list_of_papers.html).

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    Fay Sudweeks
    Senior Lecturer in Information Systems
    School of Information Technology
    Murdoch University WA 6150 Australia
    +61-8-9360-2364 (o) +61-8-9360-2941 (f)
    sudweeks@murdoch.edu.au
    www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks



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