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Call for Papers

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Registration

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the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register
at any time. For registration options or to register for the 2011
Technology Conference, see:
http://techandsoc.com/conference-2011/register/.

Themes

• Theme 1: Technologies for Human Use
• Theme 2: Technologies for Participatory Citizenship
• Theme 3: Technologies for Autonomous Communities
• Theme 4: Technologies for New Learning
• Theme 5: Technologies for Common Knowledge
• Theme 6: Technologies for Development

The New York Times

Mark Brooks wants the whole Web to know that he spent $41 on an iPad case at an Apple store, $24 eating at an Applebee’s, and $6,450 at a Florida plastic surgery clinic for nose work.

Too much information, you say? On the Internet, there seems to be no such thing. A wave of Web start-ups aims to help people indulge their urge to divulge — from sites like Blippy, which Mr. Brooks used to broadcast news of what he bought, to Foursquare, a mobile social network that allows people to announce their precise location to the world, to Skimble, an iPhone application that people use to reveal, say, how many push-ups they are doing and how long they spend in yoga class.

To Read More…

The latest issue, Volume 6, Number 1,  of The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society includes:

• Should I Stay or Should I Run? Attitudes and Subjective Norms About Disaster Alarms by Stephen Rice, David Trafimow, David Keller and Gayle Hunt.
• We Don’t Dislike the Alarm: We Dislike Complying with the Alarm by Stephen Rice, David Trafimow, Gayle Hunt and David Keller.
• How to Think about Intellectual Property of Open Source Software from a Feminist Political Economic Perspective? by Micky Lee.
• Contemporary Computer System Model by Floyd Ploeger.
• Digital Visualisation Technology Reinterpreted through Chinese Aesthetics by Christin Bolewski.
• An Exploration of the Artistic Applications of MEMS: Gallery on a Chip by Kathryn Ecsedy, Ian Harvey, Alex Hogan, Kurtis Ford, Brian Baker, Paul Stout, Solomon Brumbaugh and Jacob Piatt.