13th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge & Society (TKS 2017)

May 26-27,2017

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Call for Papers:

The Thirteenth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge & Society features research addressing the following annual themes and the 2017 Special Focus.We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, or colloquia addressing one of the following themes:

Topics of Interest:

Theme 1: Technologies and Human Usability

• Technology, knowledge and society: re-examining the connections
• Human-technology interaction, interfaces and usability
• Cybernetics, informatics, systemics and distributed networks
• New media, new communications channels: broadcasting, to narrowcasting, to pointcasting
• Open computing: the theory and practice of open source and free software
• Creative Commons
• Copyright and digital rights management
• Proprietary software and its human influences
• Data and metadata: meanings, boundaries, functions
• Open standards and the logistics of communicability and interoperability
• Structure and semantics in information
• The semantic web
• Markup languages, new markup practices, new literacies
• Wireless and mobile information and communications technologies
• Multilingualism, Unicode and machine translation
• Artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, intelligent agents
• Human-machine interfaces

Theme 2: Technologies in Knowledge Sharing

• Communities of practice and knowledge-creating communities
• Virtual communities
• Technologies for participatory citizenship
• Technology in capacity development
• Digital development: bridging the digital divide
• E-government, e-democracy and cyber-civics
• Participatory systems
• The politics of information
• Globalization and technology
• Multilingualism and cultural diversity in the digital age
• Technological meets social transformation
• Technical and social systems of sustainability
• The wild world of the Web: regulation and its discontents
• Communities as publishers
• Communities as networks: the dynamics of collaboration and community building
• Information architectures: scaffolds for autonomy or restrictive straight-jackets?
• Multi-channel publishing
• Digital repositories, archives and libraries
• Disability and access
• Differences of sensibility and access: gender, language, culture
• Cyber-identities
• Creative sources: the technologies of art and the arts of technology
• Cyber-ethics and cyber-law

Theme 3: Ubiquitous Learning

• Learning by design: curriculum and instruction in the era of networked computing
• Edutainment: gaming as pedagogy
• Perception, cognition and interactivity
• Children of the digital era: learning styles and the challenges of engagement
• Interactive and collaborative learning
• Digital meanings, multimodal communications and multiliteracies
• Lifelong and lifewide learning
• E-learning on the job and in work-related training
• E-learning in the professions
• Organizational learning and the learning organization
• Formal and informal learning
• Help menus and user-guides: website and software-integrated learning
• The virtual university

Theme 4: Technologies in Society

• Technology in the service of the ‘knowledge society’
• Data, information, knowledge, wisdom: re-examining core concepts
• Knowledge management: nurturing personal and common knowledge
• Information systems and people in organizations
• Research infrastructures
• Participatory design
• Intellectual property: approaches digital rights management
• Creative Commons and commercial realities: what are the economic conditions for knowledge and innovation?
• E-commerce, open markets and open knowledge: contradictions or complementarities?
• Collaborations: from personal to interpersonal computing
• Technologies for development
• Information and communications technologies and development
• ICTs: how the poor benefit or does not benefit
• Situating ICTs in development policies and strategies
• Global interactions: technologies, development and globalization

Important Dates

Submission Deadline :October 15,2016

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