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From:                   Yohanna_Loucheur@pch.gc.ca
Date sent:              Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:55:17 -0400
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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