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Help build a Pattern Language for civic and community communication. Click on the "Pattern System" button below to view -- or add -- patterns. We have 150 but we need more! |
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Researchers, community workers, social activists, educators and students, journalists, artists, policy-makers, and citizens are all concerned about the shape that this new infrastructure will take.
Will it meet the needs of all people?
Will it help the citizenry address current and future issues?
Will it promote democracy, social justice, sustainability?
Will the appropriate research be conducted?
Will equitable policies be enacted?
Help Shape the Network Society!
Giant media conglomerates and computer companies
are rapidly increasing their control of the information and communication
infrastructure upon which this public sphere depends. Governments, too
are often part of this problem: instead of promoting access and multi-way
access to this infrastructure they actively or passively discourage civic
sector uses.
Civic society is fighting back in a million ways. The opportunities and threats offered by a global "network society" are too great to be ignored.
The "Shaping the Network Society" symposium is designed to help us build a "public sphere" where people learn about, discuss, deliberate, and take action on important issues such as economic disparity, militarization, environmental degradation, racism or sexism is critical to our future.
Join us in (sometimes) sunny Seattle May 16-19 2002 for our eighth bi-annual "Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing" (DIAC) symposium. (detailed schedule)
The symposium program includes invited speakers, panel discussions, and pattern presentations as well as numerous opportunities for informal working sessions -- both planned and spontaneous:
- Keynote address: "A New Politics of Places on Global Networks," by Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, The University of Chicago
- Keynote address: "The Digital Divide, Facts and Fiction," by Larry Irving, former undersecretary of Commerce
- Keynote address: "Open Research Access for an Open Society," by Stevan Harnad, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Southampton
- Two events: Naaperori Shirampari Ashenika Mino of the Ashanika Indigenous community of Marankiari Bajo (Territory of the Snakes) in Central Amazon Zone Peru
- Workshop: Wireless Community Networking 101
- Panel discussion with Stuart Cowan, Conservation Economy Research Director, Ecotrust, A Pattern Language for Living Communication
- Workshop convened by Richard Lowenberg and Richard Civille on Preparing for United Nations 2003 "World Summit on the Information Society"
- Other topics: Global forces: Citizen voices; Exploring the digital divide; Human rights activism: Roles for privacy and security; "Open content" research: Making research freely accessible; Marginalization or transformation? ICT for Indigenous people and developing countries; The Internet after 9-11; Community access to broadband; Values and design; The virtual bonfire: The Internet and the future of organizing.
- Pattern Presentations: 60 "patterns" on civic, community, and activist uses of information and communication technology.
- Save time and money on hotels, airfare (for both domestic and international travel), and car rentals.
- Explore some of Seattle's most important waterfront landmarks with a beautiful three-hour Lakes, Locks, and Lively Reception Cruise, a memorable passage from salt to fresh water through Seattle's famous Hiram Chittenden Locks. (additional charge)
The focus of this symposium will be on "patterns" that people can use to help them develop and use communication and information technology in ways that affirms human values.
We believe that this orientation will be useful and ultimately exciting for all participants. If you're tempted to submit a pattern we encourage you to do so. Although this approach may require slightly different thinking we believe that it will be worth the extra effort.
Patterns are SOLUTIONS to PROBLEMS in a given CONTEXT
Patterns can be observable actions, empirical findings,
hypotheses, theories, or "best practices"
Patterns exist at all levels; they can be "global" as well
as "local;", theoretical as well as practical
Patterns are the springboard for discussion, research, and
activism
Pattern Submission
The preferred way to submit patterns is through the
pattern resource site
(http://diac.cpsr.org/cgi-bin/diac02/pattern.cgi/).
If you cannot
access the intake site, please send your pattern(s) as email text (no
attachments) to
docrod99@hotmail.com.
If you lack email access, you may
submit your pattern(s) via surface mail to:
Rod Carveth, School of Mass Communications, Texas Tech
University, P.O. Box 43082, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA.
Please consult the help page (http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/diac02/patterns/help.html), for guidance on email and surface mail submission.
Please see the patterns page for more explanation about patterns (including examples) and the author's advice page to assist potential contributors.
Important Dates
| August 1, 2001 | Patterns can be entered via web page |
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| October 15, 2001 | Web registration available |
| March 18, 2002 | extended abstracts (notfull papers) (based on accepted patterns and posters) due |
| April 20, 2002 | Last day for early registration. (Fees go up April 21) |
| May 1, 2002 | Last day to submit patterns for first pattern language |
| May 16 - 19, 2002 | Shaping the Network Society Symposium; Seattle, Washington US |
Sponsored by:
Public Sphere Project of
Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility
National Communication Association Task Force on the Digital Divide
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Support
We'd like to thank the University of Washington
Department
of Communication
for its invaluable
assistance as a co-sponsor of this symposium. Special
thanks to Gerry Philipsen, Nancy Dosmann, Paul Ford,
and Beatrice Restoule.
We'd also like to thank the Daniel J. Evans School of
Public Affairs at the University of Washington and the
School of Telecommunications at Ohio University.
We'd like to acknowledge the generous support of several
organizations.
Travel grants provided by the Ford Foundation through the
International Institute of Education.
A grant for conference support and research was awarded by the
Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science, and Technology Program -
Ethics and Values Studies, Research on Science and Technology
office of the National Science Foundation. Travel assistance
was also provided by the Open Society Institute.
Feedback
Please contact symposium coordinator Doug Schuler
douglas@cpsr.org with
any questions or comments.
Updated April 11, 2002
Created before October 2004
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