[chisigmail] FW: [HCSNet] HCSNet Call for Papers - From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen

[Daryl Ku]

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Call for Papers


 From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen - A HCSNet Workshop on Social and  
Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement

Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane,  
Australia

June 19th, 2009  Workshop position papers due
June 26th, 2009  Author notifications sent
July 13th/14th, 2009 Workshop

http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/2943

This workshop brings together people from a diverse range of disciplines  
to discuss social and mobile technologies and how they can be studied,  
designed and developed further to support local participation and civic  
engagement in urban environments.

Web applications such as blogs, wikis, video and photo sharing sites, and  
social networking systems have been termed 'Web 2.0' to highlight an  
arguably more open, collaborative, personalisable, and therefore more  
participatory internet experience than what had previously been possible.  
Giving rise to a culture of participation, an increasing number of these  
social applications are now available on mobile phones where they take  
advantage of device-specific features such as sensors,location and context  
awareness. This workshop will make a contribution towards exploring and  
better understanding the opportunities and challenges provided by tools,  
interfaces, methods and practices of social and mobile technology that  
enable participation and engagement. It will bring together a group of  
academics and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines such as  
computing and engineering, social sciences, digital media and  
human-computer interaction to critically examine a range of applications  
of social and mobile technology, such as social networking, mobile  
interaction, wikis (eg.,futuremelbourne.com.au), twitter, blogging,
virtual worlds(eg,hub2.org), and their impact to foster community  
activism, civic engagement and cultural citizenship.


Audience

We hope to attract a multidisciplinary range of HCSnet members and  
colleagues working in areas such as user experience design, human-computer  
interaction, digital media, social sciences and computing and engineering.  
The topic and themes to be explored are timely, relevant and significant  
to the research work of many academics in Australia and overseas who are  
looking at ways to help engender a culture of local and national  
participation and engagement. Many colleagues find that the underlying  
systems architecture and principles that have given rise to participatory  
culture in many social and lifestyle domains should be examined with a view
to reappropriate them to foster civic engagement and a revival of  
citizenship.


Event Format

The workshop will be held over two days, on Mon 13th and Tue 14th July  
2009, at the Creative Industries Precinct of Queensland University of  
Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane. Participants will be given the  
opportunity to present their work with a view to stimulate an informed  
debate. The workshop will allow plenty of time for both breakout and  
plenary discussions.


Submissions

We are calling for 300-500 word position statements expressing the  
interest in the workshop or abstracts of proposed presentations from  
prospective participants. Queries can be sent via email to Marcus Foth at  
m.foth [AT] qut.edu.au. Please submit your abstract online by 19 June 2009  
at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/add/submission/2943

Note that, although attendance at the workshop is free, membership of  
HCSNet and registration for this workshop are required in advance of the  
event. Registration deadline: Friday 3rd July 2009


Travel Bursaries

HCSNet will fund a number of travel bursaries of $300 each to help cover  
the costs of travel and accommodation for participants from outside the  
Brisbane and South East Queensland area. HCSNet has also approved a  
Student Support Grant to enable students to participate.

The provision of a submission as described above is a prerequisite for  
funding. If not all participants can be covered, funding grants will be  
allocated based on the relevance of your abstract to the workshop theme;  
also, students and early career researchers will have priority.


Organisers

Dr Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology
Dr Martin Gibbs, University of Melbourne
Dr Christine Satchell, Queensland University of Technology



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