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Call for Papers: AAA November 17-21, 2004
For Your Information
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We are looking for people interested in presenting work related to the
following panel at the American Anthropological Association annual
meeting in San Francisco:
Utopian Visions and their Technicalities: Social Change and the Internet
As a mode of social organization, the Internet has been integral to the
development of oppositional discourses and knowledge practices that
often cast themselves as utopian, egalitarian, "other-worldly",
idealistic and anti-establishment. Whether subversive, overt,
revolutionary or incremental, collectives of all sorts have adopted and
transformed online technologies in efforts to advance their agendas and
frame ways of knowing.
The net has proven to be a particularly conducive tool for groups with
organizational structures that parallel, or benefit from, its dispersed
and non-hierarchical roots. Through ethnographic case studies, this
panel will explore the co-adaptive relationship between network
technology and the diverse range of groups whose use of it privileges
utopian values and social change.
Please send abstracts by March 19th to either of the panel's
co-organizers.
All relevant submissions welcome.
Jay Hasbrouck
Department of Anthropology
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089
gera-*at*usc.edu
Jenny Cool
Department of Anthropology
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089
jen-*at*cool.org