[liberationtech] 4th Annual International Conference on Communication and Management (ICCM2018)

[Dr Margarita Kefalaki_COMinG]

 

Dear friend/ colleague,

 

Good day!

 

Dear friend/ colleague,

The   Communication Institute of Greece (COMinG) invites you 
to submit your paper at its 

4th Annual International Conference on Communication and Management (ICCM2018), 
23 -26 April 2018, Athens, Greece.

Here you have the Call for papers and participation:  
 
http://coming.gr/index.php/call-for-papers/

 

The aim of this cross-disciplinary conference is to bring together academics, 
students, researchers and professionals from different disciplines and cultural 
backgrounds, encourage them present their work, communicate, exchange and 
collaborate. You can participate to present a paper, chair a session, organise 
a panel, or even be an observer. Past conferences drew participants from 
different continents and countries (more than 50), presenting papers on diverse 
topics such as political communication, multicultural & cultural issues, 
Education and Management, Political Communication, European themes, Νew Media / 
artificial intelligence, Advertising, Branding, Marketing, New technology & 
Communication, Crisis Communication & Media, E-communication – Journalism, 
Management and Business Communication, cultural studies, public relations and 
advertising, among others.

This year we propose a Panel on Education, as a part of ICCM2018 with  
 Dr Jacqueline Stefkovich 
, Ac. Member COMinG & Professor Emeritus, The Pennsylvania State University, 
USA (Head of the Panel) and   
Ailson J. De Moraes (teaching education responsible). To register for the Panel 
on Education, please use  

 ICCM2018_AT_EDU following the same procedure.

Important deadlines & dates
Deadline to submit your abstract: 20 September 2017
Deadline to Register & to submit Full Papers : specified at your Acceptance 
Letter sent to you after the acceptance of your abstract 

The conference (!): 23 -26 April 2018

Call For Papers :   
http://coming.gr/index.php/call-for-papers/

Website :   http://coming.gr/   

For more information :   i...@coming.gr  

Abstract Submission 
You can submit your abstract (no more than 300 words) using the  
 
ICCM2018_AT  by email at   
registrat...@coming.gr  by September 20 th 2017 or/and can attach it at   
 abstract submission form  
 

Deadline to register and to submit your full paper will be specified at your 
acceptance letter. Decisions will be made within two (2) weeks after your 
submission. If you do not receive an acknowledgement of your registration or 
you meet any kind of problem, please contact us at   
i...@coming.gr 



In case you would like to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. organise 
a panel (session, mini conference), chair a session, review papers to be 
included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing of a 
book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Margarita 
Kefalaki, President of Communication Institute of Greece ( 
 m...@coming.gr ).

Publication policy
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings online with 
ISBN. Selected papers will be published at the  
 Journal of Media Critiques [JMC] 
and/or the   Cambridge Scholars and/or the  
 Journal of Management and 
Training for Industries.

Fees
The registration fee is €300 (euro), covering access to all sessions, 2 
lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. In addition, a number of 
cultural activities are organised such as a Greek Night entertainment with 
dinner, an educational tour around Athens (includes the Acropolis), a social 
dinner, a Greek islands’ cruise and a one-day visit to Delphi. For details 
concerning the social program, please click at  
 Conference Social 
Program The conference will take place at a luxurious hotel. A special price is 
reserved for ICCM2018 conference participants (you will get more information 
after you receive your Acceptance Letter).

Conference Topics
Papers can include topics on the areas of Communication, Management, and 
Marketing. Related disciplines will be considered, including papers on 
Education for the panel on Education. For more information please visit:  
 
http://coming.gr/index.php/call-for-papers/

Conference Heads
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[liberationtech] Imagining a New Public Information and Communication Infrastructure

[Doug Schuler]

The idea of a big open-source collaboration for a problem-solving
not-for-profit global platform seems to becoming more popular. I wouldn't
call it a juggernaut just yet.

I wanted to mention my recent article for the Computers and Society
Newsletter: "Imagining a New Public Information and Communication
Infrastructure which is available at
http://www.sigcas.org/newsletter/volume-47-issue-1/6.pdf for a few weeks at
least (and on the public sphere project site at
http://publicsphereproject.org/sites/default/files/public-infrastructure.preprint.pdf
).

Incidentally a reporter at vice.com did a write-up (
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a-plea-for-multispace-the-diy-civic-internet-that-will-never-exist)
of the article. It was somewhat encouraging while mentioning the technical
naiveté of the author a couple of times (a "rosy treatise"). In my note
back to him I mentioned that I believe the technical challenges are
miniscule when stacked up against the social challenges.

The way I'd propose starting something like this from the ground up would
be to start developing a "pattern language" that depicts the broad — and
evolving —"rules" that would help guide us. These would be incrementally
developed by the researchers / developers / practitioners and would change
over time to reflect current and expected circumstances. This process bears
some resemblance to the Request for Comments (RFC) and the Portland Pattern
Repository (which led to Wikis, Wikipedia, etc.) approaches that was used
in the development of the Internet.

I'd suggest a number of Public Infrastructure Development Pattern
Categories under which the pattens would fit. Here's the draft list so far:

Purpose
Principles
Community
Architecture
Governance
Development
Functionality and Services
Looks and Feels
Policy
Outreach / Communication
Users and Use Cases
Projects & Experiments
Long View, Strategy, and Planning

And the patterns within the categories could be in various states: in
development / comments requested / accepted / accepted provisionally /
tabled / others?

I'm curious whether people think this approach sounds useful or practical.

Thanks!

— Doug

PS. I also looked into this via another perspective in Creating the World
Citizen Parliament,
http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament
.
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