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From: fays  at arch.usyd.EDU.AU
Subject:       Cultural Attitudes towards Technology & Communication Conf

                       INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 
   CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'98)

                1-3 August 1998, Science Museum, London         

                http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/
                http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac/
                         catac98@arch.usyd.edu.au

CATaC'98 will explore the complex interactions between culture,
technology, and communication, as these shape local and global
responses to and uses of CMC technologies. CATaC conjoins current
theoretical research and praxis of cross-cultural communication
mediated by new technologies. We seek to avoid the overt and covert
forms of ethnocentrism often at work in current Internet and Web
practices and thereby contribute to a better understanding of the
limits and strengths of these technologies as global communication
media.

We invite you to participate in a program that promises to be 
stimulating and varied. Highlights include:

    - Professor John Durant as Keynote Speaker
      Professor of Public Understanding of Science 
      Imperial College, London
    - Panel on Global Culture, Local Culture, and Vernacular
      Computing: The excluded 95% in South Asia
    - Closing Plenary Session on "Trialogue": Philosophy,
      Communication Theory, and Cultural Criticism

as well as papers and brief presentations from representatives of
Africa, the Americas (North and South), Asia and South Asia,
Australia, Europe, the Middle-East and Scandinavia. Ample opportunity 
will be given for in-depth roundtable discussions on the conference themes:

* The politics of the electronic global village
* Homogeneity, marginalization, and the preservation of local cultures
* Globalization and Localization
* Communication in industrialized cultures
* Social Convergence of North, South, East and West
* Communication in industrializing/capitalizing countries
* East/West cultural attitudes and communicative practices

CATaC is supported by Asian, North American, and European scholarly
organizations (representing the disciplines of communication theory,
cultural science, philosophy and comparative philosophy), the Science
Museum, London (the conference venue), and the Technology Assessment
Program of Switzerland.

For complete information, including the conference program, registration
and accommodation reservations, please visit our web sites or contact the
conference co-chairs (Charles Ess, Drury College, Springfield, Missouri,
USA; Fay Sudweeks, University of Sydney, Australia) at the e-mail address
listed above.  
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