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
June 19, 2009 Workshop position papers (300-500 words) due
June 26, 2009 Author notifications sent
July 13/14, 2009 Workshop
http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/2943
Keynote Speaker
We are pleased to announce Adam Greenfield, author of 'Everyware' and
Head of Design Direction for User Interface and Services at Nokia in
Helsinki, as the keynote speaker for this workshop. His talk "The city
is here for you to use" will give us a preview of the ideas in his
forthcoming new book.
Workshop Theme
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.
This workshop will be held back-to-back with an ARC Cultural Research
Network (CRN) workshop on the 11th and 12th of July 2009 at QUT
titled, "Unboxing the iPhone: The Circuits of Digital Culture,"
organised by Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess and Ingrid Richardson,
supported by the CRN's Cultural Technologies Node. This will provide
opportunities to exchange ideas and experiences. http://www.uq.edu.au/crn/activities/glamm-iphone.html
The workshop is also very timely in that it coincides with the six
week residency of Prof. Carlo Ratti, Director of the SENSEable City
Lab at MIT, and the 2009 inaugural Queensland Innovator in Residence: http://yearofcreativity.deta.qld.gov.au/innovator.html
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 Fri
19 June 2009 at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/add/submission/2943
This workshop is free for anyone who has been HCSNet Member for 2
months prior to the workshop. Non-members need to pay $100
registration fee for this workshop via the online facility. Please
register online by Fri 3 July 2009 at http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/events/register/2943
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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Dr Marcus Foth
Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation
Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J)
Victoria Park Rd, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia
Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88238 - Office K506, KG
m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.urbaninformatics.net/
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