[SDH/SEMI Members] CFP, Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age (23 and 24 October 2009, U Victoria)

[Ray Siemens]

Call for Papers: INKE 2009


Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Research Foundations for
Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age


23 and 24 October 2009, University of Victoria (http://www.uvic.ca)
Proposals by 1 June 2009 to inke.conference at gmail.com

Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing,
reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a
gap between core social/cultural practices that depend on stable reading and
writing environments and the new kinds of digital artifacts--electronic
books, being just one type of many--that must sustain those practices now
and into the future.

This conference explores research foundations pertinent to understanding
those new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work
leading toward [1] theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and
post-electronic media, [2] documenting the facets of how people experience
information as readers and writers, [3] designing new kinds of interfaces
and artifacts that afford new reading abilities, [4] conceptualizing the
issues necessary to provide information to these new reading and
communicative environments, and [5] and reflection on interdisciplinary team
research strategies pertinent to work in the area.

We invite paper and poster/demonstration proposals that address these and
other issues pertinent to research in the area to INKE 2009, to be held at
the University of Victoria, 23-24 October 2009. Proposals should contain a
title, an abstract (of approximately 250 words) plus list of works cited,
and the names, affiliations, and website URLs of presenters; fuller papers
will be solicited after acceptance of the proposal.

Some funding is available to assist in graduate student travel to this
event; if you wish to apply for this, please indicate this when submitting
your proposal.

Please send your proposals before 1 June 2009 to inke.conference at gmail.com.
Proposals will be reviewed and participants contacted by 1 July 2009, and
papers for publication in the conference volume will be due 15 August 2009.
Conference details will be posted as they are available to
http://www.inke.ca/inke2009, beginning 1 May 2009. 

Programme Committee: Ray Siemens (U Victoria), Teresa Dobson (U British
Columbia), Stan Ruecker (U Alberta), Alan Galey (U Toronto), Richard
Cunningham (Acadia U), Claire Warwick (U C London), Tassie Gniady (U
Victoria, Coordinator).

 

 

 

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R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC,
Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Ph.(250)721-7272  Fax.(250)721-6498
siemens at uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/

 

 

 

 

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R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC,
Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Ph.(250)721-7272  Fax.(250)721-6498
siemens at uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/

 

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