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3rd Quarter 1998
ejcrec@lib.drury.edu
Conference
1-3 August 1998
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P R O G R A M
We invite you to read the
introductory chapter of the proceedings, "First Looks: CATaC'98" by Charles
Ess, for an overview of the conference themes and papers (HTML
or PDF (57Kb)).
All sessions of the
conference (unless otherwise specified) will be held in the Fellows Room
of the Science Museum. Registration will be on the first level foyer of
the north entrance to the Museum. All breaks and lunches will be in the
Ante Room, adjacent to the Fellows Room.
Friday
31 July
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17:00-18:00 |
Registration |
Foyer
of the Ante Room |
18:00-19:00 |
Reception |
Ante
Room |
Saturday 1 August
|
08:45-09:00 |
Opening |
Charles
Ess and Fay Sudweeks
Co-Chairs |
09:00-10:00 |
Keynote
Speaker |
Dr John Durant
Professor of Public Understanding of Science
Imperial College, London |
10:00-11:00 |
Session
1
The Politics of the Electronic Global Village |
Chair:
Charles Ess, Drury College, USA
Understanding micropolis and compunity
Steve Jones, University of Illinois
- Chicago, USA (30m)
New kids on the net
Herbert Hrachovec, University
of Vienna, Austria (30m) |
11:00-11:30 |
Break |
11:30-12:30 |
Session
1 (cont'd)
The Politics of the Electronic Global Village |
Chair:
Charles Ess, Drury College, USA
Electronic media and civil society
Barbara Becker, Josef Wehner,
GMD, Germany (30m)
Global diffusion of interactive networks: The impact of culture
Carleen Maitland, Michigan State
University, USA (30m) |
12:30-13:00 |
Discussion |
Session
1 issues |
13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-15:30 |
Session
2
Homogeneity, Marginalization, and the Preservation of Local Cultures |
Reflections
on cultural bias and adaptation
Daniel Pargman, Linkoping University,
Sweden (30m)
Aspects of diversity, access and community
networks
Cyd Strickland, The Fielding
Institute, USA (30m)
NGOs and Internet Use in Uganda: Who Benefits?
Scott McConnell, University of
Guelph, Canada (30m) |
15:30-16:00 |
Break |
16:00-16:30 |
Discussion |
Sessions
2 issues
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18:00 |
Conference
Dinner: Elizabethan Banquet, Hatfield House (bus departs from Crofton
Hotel) |
Sunday 2 August
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09:00-10:40 |
Session
3
Communication in Virtual Communities
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Cybersocialism:
Group consciousness and transnational communities
Fay Sudweeks, University of
Sydney, Australia (30m)
CMCs and the problem of "grounding" virtual utopias
Cameron Richards, Queensland
University of Technology, Australia (20m)
Striving for closure: Interactive ASCII art on Internet Relay Chat
Brenda Danet, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel (20m)
Attitudes towards technology and communication across the
multiple cultures of Switzerland
Lucienne Rey, TA Program, Switzerland
(30m) |
10:40-11:10 |
Break |
11:10-12:30
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Session
4
Sociocultural Convergence |
National security and democracy on the Internet
in Israel
Michael Dahan, Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Israel (20m)
Virtual environments as spaces of symbolic construction and cultural
identity: Latin American Virtual Communities
Jose Nocera, Simon Bolivar
University, Venuezuela (20m)
Addressivity and sociability in "Celtic men"
Jason Rutter and Greg Smith,
University of Salford, UK (20m)
Cultural attitudes and technology
Jerome Heath, North Seattle
Community College, USA (20m)
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12:30-13:00 |
Discussion |
Sessions
3 and 4 issues |
13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-16:00 |
Panel
Global Culture, Local Culture, and Vernacular Computing: The
excluded 95% in South Asia |
Kenneth
Keniston, MIT, USA (Chair)
Pat Hall, The Open University |
16:00-16:30 |
Break |
16:30-17:45 |
Session
5
East/West cultural attitudes and communicative practices |
Preserving
communication context: Virtual workspace and interpersonal space
in Japanese CSCW
Lorna Heaton, University of New
Mexico, USA (30m)
Global culture, local cultures, and the Internet: The Thai example
Soraj Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn
University, Thailand (30m)
The cultural Interface: The role of self
Satinder Gill, NTT Basic
Research Labs, Japan (20m) |
17:45-18:15 |
Discussion |
Session
5 and panel issues |
Monday 3 August
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09:00-10:30 |
Session
6
Culture and the Design of Technology |
Bridging
the gap: Issues in the design of computer user interfaces for multicultural
communities
Adrie Stander, Cape Technikon,
South Africa (20m)
Cross-cultural understanding of metaphors in interface
design
Vanessa Evers, Open University,
UK (20m)
Culture and participation in development of CMC: Indigenous cultural
information system case study
Andrew Turk, Kathryn Trees,
Murdock University, Australia (20m)
Building cyberspace: Information, place and policy
Ken Friedman, Norwegian School
of Management, Norway (20m) |
10:30-11:00 |
Discussion |
Sessions
6 issues |
11:00-11:30 |
Break |
11:30-12:30 |
Session
7
Culture and Communication in Organizations |
Why
people use the world wide web: An application of uses and gratifications
theory
Diane Witmer, Chutatip Taweesuk,
California State University - Fullerton, USA (30m)
Cross-cultural issues affecting information technology use
in logistics
Paul Tully, California State
University - Sacramento, USA (15m)
Analysing cultural impacts of computer-mediated communication in
organisations
Heejin Lee and Richard Varey,
University of Salford, UK (15m) |
12:30-13:00 |
Discussion |
Sessions
7 issues |
13:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-16:00 |
Plenary |
Summary
reports from previous sessions: "Trialogue": Philosophy,
Communication Theory, and Cultural Criticism
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16:00-16:30 |
Closing Discussion |
18:00- |
Dinner/Theatre:
Optional (not included in conference fee) |
Tuesday 4 August
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10:00-13:00 |
Tour: Science Museum
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