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     Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:43:55 -0700
     From: Ray Siemens <[log in to unmask]>
  Subject: [DHSI] CFP: Research Foundations for Understanding Books
and Reading in the Digital Age
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Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age:
Textual Methodologies and Exemplars
15 December 2010
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), The Hague
in conjunction with the conference Text & Literacy (16-17 December)
Proposals due 30 September 2010
Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to
writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change
has created a gap between core social/cultural practices that depend
on stable reading and writing environments and the new kinds of
digital artefacts--electronic books being just one type of many--that
must sustain those practices now and into the future.

This one-day gathering explores research foundations pertinent to
understanding those new practices and emerging media, specifically
focusing on work in textual method, in itself and via exemplar,
leading toward [1] theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and
post-electronic media, [2] documenting the facets of how people
experience information as readers and writers, [3] designing new kinds
of interfaces and artifacts that afford new reading abilities, [4]
conceptualizing the issues necessary to provide information to these
new reading and communicative environments, and [5] reflection on
interdisciplinary team research strategies pertinent to work in the
area.

The gathering is offered in conjunction with the Text & Literacy
conference (16-17 December) and is sponsored by the Koninklijke
Bibliotheek (the National Library of the Netherlands), the Book and
Digital Media Studies department of Leiden University, and the
Implementing New Knowledge Environments research group.

We invite paper and poster/demonstration proposals that address these
and other issues pertinent to research in the area. Proposals should
contain a title, an abstract (of approximately 250 words) plus list of
works cited, and the names, affiliations, and website URLs of
presenters; fuller papers will be solicited after acceptance of the
proposal. Please send proposals before 30 September 2010 to
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Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Ph.(250)721-7272 Fax.(250)721-6498
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