Call for Abstracts for Chapters Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (editors Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen) Abstracts due June 1 2014; full chapters due Sept. 1 2015 After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a […]

Call For Papers: Special Issue of New Media & Society on the Democratization of Hacking & Making Research on hacker culture has historically focused on a relatively narrow set of activities and practices related to open-source software, political protest, and criminality. Scholarship on making has generally been defined as hands-on work with a connection to […]

Please join us in a workshop on learning and research in Second Life on October 17, 2007 in Vancouver at Internet Research 8.0 (http:// wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=About_IR8.0) Paper Deadline August 15th. Second Life(R) is a 3d virtual environment created by Linden Lab which has captured the attentions of researchers and teachers from around the world from a […]

Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0: Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 The Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), University of York, will be running a conference on 5/6th September entitled ‘Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0′. This is in collaboration with the Taylor and Francis Journal Information, Communication & Society (iCS) and […]

The 3rd Living Knowledge conference ‘Communities building knowledge: innovation through citizens’ science and university engagement’ will take place in Paris from 30 August 30 till 1 September 2007. The conference will provide a forum where information on community based research, carried out in both community and academic settings, on new forms of partnerships between research […]

4th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society: Technology Conference 2008 Welcome to website of the Fourth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society. The inaugural Technology Conference was held at the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco, in February 2005. Since then, the conference has been held in Hyderabad, India, 12-15 December 2005, a […]

Changing politics through digital networks: The role of ICTs in the formation of new social and political actors and actions. 5-6 October 2007, Political Science Faculty, University of Florence, Italy Organized by: Department of Political Science and Sociology (DISPO), University of Florence in collaboration with the Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU) based in the Department […]

Designed Objects: New Craft – Future Voices (conference): New Craft – Future Voices (conference) New Craft – Future Voices is an international conference and exhibition organised to encourage debate surrounding the future of craft. It seeks to expose and articulate craft issues currently being investigated via doctoral research, post-doctoral research and craft practitioners, and to […]