>
>From: Dr Rob Fisher <[log in to unmask]>
>
>Subject: CFP: Cybercultures 3: Exploring 
>Critical Issues (Czech Republic) (6/3/05; 
>8/11/05-8/13/05)
>
>3rd Global Conference
>Cybercultures: Exploring Critical Issues
>
>Thursday 11th - Saturday 13th August 2005
>Prague, Czech Republic
>
>Call for Papers
>(please cross post where appropriate)
>
>This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference 
>aims to examine, explore and critically engage 
>with the issues and implications created by the 
>growth of cybercultures and the continuing 
>emergence of new media for human living and 
>culture. In particular the conference will 
>encourage innovative dialogues in wrestling with 
>theoretical and practical debates which surround 
>the cultural contexts within which emerging 
>media and technological advances are occurring.
>
>Papers, presentations, workshops and reports are 
>invited on any of the following themes;
>
>1. Cyberspace and Cyberculture
>Disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives 
>in cyberspace and cyberculture. Identifying key 
>features and issues.
>
>2. Cybermedias: New Media and Technology
>Defining the characteristics and features of 
>'new' media; histories and theories of new 
>media; technology as a culture; visual culture 
>and the impact of entertainment; digital 
>communications and ways of relating. New forms 
>of literacy.
>
>3. The Virtual and Virtuality
>The rise of the internet, www, and online 
>'communities'; interaction, interactivity and 
>interfaces; private and public space; 
>regulation; risk; issues of access and control; 
>knowledge management; education; security 
>issues. The influence of AI; weak and strong 
>artificial intelligence, cluster intelligence 
>and agent driven intelligence
>
>4. Cyberpunk: Writing and Film
>Art related communication of cyber worlds. 
>Themes emerging and developing within cyberpunk. 
>Fiction, science fiction, anime, film. Cyberpunk 
>as a subculture. Cyberpunk as a medium for 
>exploring the nature of persons.
>
>5. Digital and Interactive Arts
>Collaborative hypermedia projects; Net.Art and 
>Digital Culture; New Textualities: Hyperfiction, 
>Cyberliterature
>
>6. Computers and Games
>The aesthetic and architectural aspects of 
>computer games. Advergames, online games, 
>narrative and games.
>
>7. Identities, Bodies, Cyborgs and the Human
>Robot, Androids, Cyborgs. Birth of the Cyber 
>body and cyber human. Gender related issues, 
>cross gender bodies and human machine bodies.
>
>8. Cybercultures and Politics
>The impact and influence on national and local 
>politics. Cybercultures and democracy. New media 
>in political contexts; new forms of citizenship; 
>new media in social and economic contexts; the 
>'modern' society.
>
>9. Cybercultures, Cybersubcultures and Communities
>Social movements and the shaping of individual 
>and collective identities; the impact and 
>implications of increasing globalisation. 
>cyberprotest, activism, anti-globalisation and 
>social mobilisation. Social exclusion.
>
>These are indicative themes. Papers are welcome on these and related themes.
>
>Papers will be considered on any related theme. 
>300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 
>3rd June 2005. If an abstract is accepted for 
>the conference, a full draft paper should be 
>submitted by Friday 29th July 2005.
>
>300 word abstracts should be submitted to the 
>Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, 
>WordPerfect, PDF or RTF formats
>
>Dr Owen Kelly
>Arcada Polytechnic
>Helsinki
>Finland
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>
>Dr Rob Fisher
>Inter-Disciplinary.Net
>Freeland, Oxfordshire
>United Kingdom
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>
>Stephen Morris
>Independent Scholar,
>New York, USA
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>
>The conference is part of the ëCritical Issuesí 
>programme of research projects. It aims to bring 
>together people from different areas and 
>interests to share ideas and explore various 
>discussions which are innovative and exciting.
>
>All papers accepted for and presented at this 
>conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. 
>Selected papers will be developed for 
>publication in a themed hard copy volume.
>
>For further information about the project please visit:
>http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/mm/nmtc/nmtc.htm
>
>For further Information about the conference please visit:
>http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/cybercultures/c3/cfp.htm
>
>

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