[spectre] CFP: Situated Advocacy

[Mark Shepard]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Situated Technologies Pamphlet 3: Situated Advocacy
http://situatedtechnologies.net/?q=node/76

Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2008

The Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series invites submissions for its  
upcoming volume on “Situated Advocacy.”

Advocacy is the act of arguing on behalf of a particular issue, idea  
or person, and addresses issues including self-advocacy,  
environmental protection, the rights of women, youth and minorities,  
social justice, the re-structured digital divide and political  
reform. How might Situated Technologies be mobilized toward changing  
and/or influencing social or political policies, practices, and  
beliefs? What new forms of advocacy are enabled by contemporary  
location-based or context-aware media and information systems? How  
might they lend tactical support to the process of managing  
information flows and disseminating strategic knowledge that  
influences individual behavior or opinion, corporate conduct or  
public policy and law?

+ Submission details:
We are seeking submissions from pairs of authors, in keeping with the  
format of a “conversation” between two individuals or groups. Please  
submit a 500 word abstract and short bio for each author (150 words  
max) in Rich Text Format (RTF) by February 15, 2008 to  
editors at situatedtechnologies.net. We expect final manuscripts will  
range from 7500-10,000 words and will be due by May 16, 2008. Please  
contact us if you have questions about potential essays or the  
Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series in general. More information is  
available at http://www.situatedtechnologies.net.

+ About the Series:
The Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series consists of nine short  
pamphlets to be published over the next three years, exploring the  
implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism:  
how our experience of space and the choices we make within it are  
affected by a range of mobile, pervasive, embedded or otherwise  
“situated” technologies. The series, published via print-on-demand  
(POD), consists of a succession of “conversations” between  
researchers, writers and other practitioners from architecture, art,  
science and technology studies, comparative media study, performance  
studies, and engineering.

+ Series Editors:
Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard

+ Advisory Committee:
Keller Easterling, Anne Galloway, Malcolm McCullough, Howard Rheingold

+ Publisher:
The Architectural League of New York
http://www.archleague.org