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From: Yohanna_Loucheur@pch.gc.ca <Yohanna_Loucheur@pch.gc.ca>
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Date: September 25, 1998 2:55 PM
Subject: Call for Papers - Citizens and Information Society


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>CALL FOR PAPERS
>Citizens at the Crossroads:
>Whose Information Society?
>May 26-28, 1999
>Government Conference Centre, Ottawa
>
>The Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canadian International
>Development Agency invite abstracts and papers for a conference to
>address issues related to the growth of the knowledge based economy
>and society.  Specifically the conference, as part of a government-wide
>policy research agenda, will address citizenship in the information
>society by exploring the forces that advance and impede civic
>participation domestically and internationally, particularly in the
>developing world.  The conference is expected to attract both
>researchers and policy professionals.
>
>Abstracts and papers are invited on these topics:
>
>---Ownership and control of electronic and other media networks,
>services and information:
>     Different forms of commercial and political control; impact on
>access and on the exercise of citizenship.
>
>---Controversial content, censorship, propaganda, and privacy:
>     Tensions between freedom of expression and the control of
>illegal activities; new forms of propaganda and censorship; the
>protection of children.
>
>---Civic knowledge, education, and participation:
>     Rights and responsibilities of citizenship in an information
>society; is virtual education, education?; how the net and other forms
>of communication expand and constrain civic participation.
>
>---Democracy and political action:
>     Effects of new networks and the freer flow of information on
>national and other identities, political cultures and the way people
>mobilize
>for action within and across borders.
>
>---Human rights, diversity, and marginalization:
>     Importance of access to information and communication media for
>human rights; risks of marginalization and homogenization.
>
>
>
>DEADLINES:     Abstracts      January 15, 1999
>          Completed Papers    April 14, 1999
>
>The conference will publish a book of selected papers.
>
>Abstracts (300 words maximum) and enquiries should be addressed to:
>
>Ned Ellis, Director
>Strategic Research and Analysis             Phone: 819-997-1734
>Department of Canadian Heritage             Fax:     819-997-6765
>25 Eddy Street, 12th Floor                  E-Mail: Ned_ellis@pch.gc.ca
>Hull, Quebec K1A 0M5
>
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>DEMANDE  DE  COMMUNICATIONS
>La citoyennetÊ ¼ la croisÊe des chemins:
>une sociÊtÊ de l?information pour qui?
>Du 26 au 28 mai 1999
>Centre de confÊrence gouvernemental, Ottawa
>
>Le ministËre du Patrimoine canadien et l?Agence canadienne de
>dÊveloppement international invitent chercheur(e)s et intervenant(e)s
>¼ soumettre des propositions de communication pour une confÊrence
>portant sur la croissance de l?Êconomie et de la sociÊtÊ axÊes sur le
>savoir.  Cette confÊrence, qui fait partie d?une initiave fÊdÊrale de
>recherche sur les politiques, portera plus prÊcisÊment sur la notion
>de citoyennetÊ dans la sociÊtÊ de l?information en se penchant sur les
>facteurs qui renforcent ou affaiblissent la participation ¼ la sociÊtÊ
>civile au Canada et ailleurs, notamment dans les pays en dÊveloppement.
>L?audience prÊvue est ¼ la fois acadÊmique et gouvernementale.
>
>Les thËmes suggÊrÊs pour les communications sont les suivants:
>
>---Possession et contr le des rÊseaux, des services et de
>l?information, Êlectroniques ou autres
>     Les formes de contr le politique ou commercial, leur effet
>sur l?accËs et sur l?exercice de la citoyennetÊ.
>
>---Contenu controversÊ, censure, propagande, protection des
>renseignements personnels
>     Tensions entre libertÊ d?expression et contr le des activitÊs
> illÊgales, nouvelles formes de propagande et de censure, protection
> des enfants.
>
>---Sens civique, Êducation et participation
>     Droits et devoirs associÊs ¼ l?appartenance ¼ une sociÊtÊ de
> l?information; l?Êducation virtuelle est-elle bien de l?Êducation?; la
>faÄon dont Internet et d?autres types de communication facilitent ou
>entravent la participation ¼ la sociÊtÊ civile.
>
>---DÊmocratie et action politique
>     Effets des nouveaux rÊseaux et de la libre circulation de
>l?information sur les identitÊs, nationales ou autres, les cultures
>politiques et les formes de mobilisation ¼ l?intÊrieur ou au-del¼
>des frontiËres.
>
>---Droits de la personne, diversitÊ et marginalisation
>     Importance de l?accËs aux mÊdias et ¼ l?information pour les
>droits de la personne; risques de marginalisation et d?homogÊnÊisation.
>
>
>DATES LIMITES:       rÊsumÊs                 15 janvier 1999
>                   texte des communications    14 avril 1999
>Un livre rÊunira certaines communications.
>
>Les rÊsumÊs (300 mots maximum) et les questions doivent ¾tre adressÊs ¼:
>
>Ned Ellis, Directeur
>Recherche et analyse stratÊgique          TÊlÊphone:    819-997-1734
>MinistËre du Patrimoine canadien          TÊlÊcopieur:  819-997-6765
>25, rue Eddy, 12iËme Êtage              Courriel:  Ned_Ellis@pch.gc.ca
>Hull, QuÊbec K1A 0M5
>
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