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:

Friday, December 9, 2011 - 08:00 to Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 22:00

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:

  • How can we better understand the mutual relations between information and communication technologies and cultures?

  • To what extent is the appropriation of technologies culturally relative?

  • To what extent do technologies exert their own agency regardless of local practices and cultural accommodations?

  • 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).

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