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Call for Papers
CHILDREN, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE
The 2nd International Conference on Children and Social Competence
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY
West London, UK
1-3 July 1998
Childhood is increasingly saturated by technology: from television to the
internet, video games to 'video-nasties', camcorders to personal computers.
Despite the development of specifically child-oriented technologies such as
computer software packages, children also engage with and exercise
competence in a whole range of technologies unmediated and uncensored by
adults in the home, at school, and in the public social world.
The interplay of children and technology poses critical questions for how
we understand the nature of childhood in late modern society. What kinds of
changes are technologies bringing to children's social worlds?
This conference aims to bring together researchers from a range of
disciplines to further our understanding of the implications and
consequences of children's relationships with technology.
We are seeking papers to address a range of relevant themes including, but
not restricted to, the following:
* children in interaction with technology
* the social relations of childhood and technology
* technologies and the constitution of childhood
* technology as an arena of social competence
* relationships between gender, age, peer groups, and technology
Proposals are invited in the form of a 500 word abstract which should be
submitted to the organisers (below) by 1 March 1998. Decisions will be
given by 31 March 1998. Delegates will receive separate details of
registration and accommodation fees.
One copy of the abstract should be submitted to each of the organisers:
Ian Hutchby
Department of Human Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge
UB8 3PH, Middlesex, UK.
(E-mail submissions will be accepted at: Ian.Hutchby who-is-at brunel.ac.uk)
Jo Moran-Ellis
Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 5XH,
Surrey, UK.
(E-mail submissions will be accepted at: scs1jm who-is-at soc.surrey.ac.uk)
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Ian Hutchby, Department of Human Sciences, Brunel University
Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1895 274000 ext. 3527.
Fax: +44 (0)1895 232806.