2nd International Workshop on Comparative Informatics (IWCI-2011)
Website: http://www.itu.dk/people/rkva/IWCI-2011/
Comparative informatics is the study of design, development, evaluation, use, and impact of information technologies across a diverse set of domains, organizations, contexts, cohorts, cultures, and countries. The scientific focus of the 2nd International Workshop on Comparative Informatics (IWCI-2011) is on the following core questions:
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How can we better understand the mutual relations between information and communication technologies and cultures?
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To what extent is the appropriation of technologies culturally relative?
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To what extent do technologies exert their own agency regardless of local practices and cultural accommodations?
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To what extent do people shape, alter, bend, adapt, adjust, align, configure, reconfigure, and re-imagine technologies?
Layered into the inherent complexities of technologies themselves as artifact whose qualities we do not fully understand are the technologies’ uptake and appropriation in multiple cultural contexts. Temporality will be a key discussion point at the workshop and we will discuss methodological and epistemological aspects of time and its relation to technologically mediated activity. Methodological discussion will also examine the applicability of the comparative method to informatics and will proceed to identify a range of appropriate research methods.
Preliminary List of Workshop Participants
Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Torkil Clemmensen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Mads Bødker, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Abid Hussain, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Zeshan Jaffari, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Morten Hertzum, Roskilde University, Denmark
Scott Robertson, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Bonnie Nardi, University of California-Irvine, USA
Ruy Cervantes, University of California-Irvine, USA
Sean Goggins, Drexel University, USA
Christopher Mascaro, Drexel University, USA
Zhengjie Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China
Yair Amichai-Hamburger, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel
Vanessa Evers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Jose Abdur Nocera, Thames Valley University, UK
Kerstin Rose, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
André Liem, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Bijan Aryana, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
For more details, please contact Associate Professor Ravi Vatrapu (vatrapu@cbs.dk).