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** Fifth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society **
30 January to 1 February 2009
Huntsville, Alabama, USA
http://www.Technology-Conference.com/

** Plenary Speakers **
*Jeffery Sands, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
For the latest updates, see: http://t09.cg-conference.com/main-speakers.

** Call for Papers **
If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types and other options, see: http://t09.cg-conference.com/proposal-types. To submit a proposal, see: http://t09.cg-conference.com/proposal-entry-intro. Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.

** Registration **
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options, see: http://t09.cg-conference.com/options-fees. To register for the 2009 Technology Conference, see: http://t09.cg-conference.com/registration.

** International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society **
Paper submissions are now open for Volume 5 of the Journal.

Submission guidelines may be found at http://t09.cg-conference.com/publish-your-paper. You will first need to submit a Conference proposal. Please find details at http://t09.cg-conference.com/proposal-entry-intro. Once you receive notification that your proposal has been accepted, you will be able to upload your full paper for refereeing.

Five issues of Volume 4 have been published. You may view the contents at http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.407. The sixth, and final issue will be published shortly.

You may order the full issue in hardcopy or electronic formats, as well as purchase individual papers in both print and electronic formats.

** Creator Sites **
All officially registered Technology Conference participants can make their own Creator Website. To start, visit the CGPublisher Creator page at http://www.cgpublisher.com/ui/about/for_creators.html.

** Would you like to be an Associate Editor? **
All referees will be credited as Associate Editors for the volume of the Journal to which they have contributed (the particular papers they refereed will not be identified). If you would like to referee papers, please email cg-support@commongroundpublishing.com and provide a short resume along with any research interests. If we have any appropriate papers, we will contact you.

** Conferences **
Ninth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations
24-27 June 2009, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
See: http://www.ManagementConference.com

Living, Reinvented: The Technology of Abundance and Constraints
OReilly Emerging Technology Conference
9-12 March 2009, San Jose, California, USA
See: http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/content/home

2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference
26-28 April 2000, San Francisco Hilton, San Francisco, California, USA
See: http://www.nten.org/ntc

Icon-2008
Sixth International Conference On Natural Language Processing
20-22 December 2008, Pune, India
See: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/diary#p:42:60

How Obama Really Did It (video)

Jascha Franklin-Hodge, co-founder and chief technology officer of Blue State Digital, describes how the company helped create and manage Barack Obama's highly successful online social network.
See:
http://www.technologyreview.com/video/index.aspx?id=21222&brightcove=1668487184&iframe=infotech&autoplay=true

Digging a Smarter Crowd (video)
By Erica Naone - Tuesday, 08 July 2008
Digg's new recommendation system relies on the wisdom of crowds.
Video by Digg/Vimeo/Kevin Rose
Digg, a popular social bookmarking website, began rolling out a recommendation engine late last week.
See:
http://www.technologyreview.com/video/index.aspx?id=21045&brightcove=1653611761&iframe=infotech&autoplay=true

An Anthropological Introduction To Youtube (video)
Presented at the Library of Congress
Michael Wesch/YouTube This video explores the use of YouTube from a cultural and anthropological standpoint, focusing on user communities, how the service affects the lives of amateur videographers, and even how YouTube "stardom" can propel an individual or group into notoriety in the "real world."
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU

OECD policy guidance for digital content
OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry
Appropriate policies can increase the contribution of digital content to growth and welfare and spread the benefits more widely. The objective of the principles in this document is to help provide and inform the context for policy discussion, policy analysis, review and development.
See: http://www.creative.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=226062

** Conferences **
Ninth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations
24-27 June 2009, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
For more info: http://www.ManagementConference.com

Living, Reinvented: The Technology of Abundance and Constraints
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
9-12 March 2009, San Jose, California, USA
For more info: http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/content/home

2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference
26-28 April 2009, San Francisco Hilton, San Francisco, California, USA
For more info: http://www.nten.org/ntc

Icon-2008
Sixth International Conference On Natural Language Processing
20-22 December 2008, Pune, India
For more info: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/diary#p:42:60

** Video **
How Obama Really Did It
Jascha Franklin-Hodge, co-founder and chief technology officer of Blue State Digital, describes how the company helped create and manage Barack Obama's highly successful online social network.
For more info:
http://www.technologyreview.com/video/index.aspx?id=21222&brightcove=1668487184&iframe=infotech&autoplay=true

Digging a Smarter Crowd
Erica Naone - Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Digg's new recommendation system relies on the wisdom of crowds.
Video by Digg/Vimeo/Kevin Rose
Digg, a popular social bookmarking website, began rolling out a recommendation engine late last week.
For more info:
http://www.technologyreview.com/video/index.aspx?id=21045&brightcove=1653611761&iframe=infotech&autoplay=true

An Anthropological Introduction To Youtube
Presented at the Library of Congress
Michael Wesch/You Tube
This video explores the use of YouTube from a cultural and anthropological standpoint, focusing on user communities, how the service affects the lives of amateur videographers, and even how YouTube "stardom" can propel an individual or group into notoriety in the "real world."
For more info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU

OECD policy guidance for digital content
OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry
Appropriate policies can increase the contribution of digital content to growth and welfare and spread the benefits more widely. The objective of the principles in this document is to help provide and inform the context for policy discussion, policy analysis, review and development.
For more info: http://www.creative.org.au/linkboard/results.chtml?filename_num=226062

** Technology Journal Volume 5 **
Paper submissions are now open for Volume 5 of the Journal.

Submission guidelines may be found at: http://t09.cg-conference.com/publish-your-paper. You will first need to submit a Conference proposal. Please find details at:
http://t09.cg-conference.com/proposal-entry-intro.

Once you receive notification that your proposal has been accepted, you will be able to upload your full paper for refereeing.

** Technology Journal Volume 4 **
Five issues of Volume 4 have been published and you can view the contents at

Volume 4, Number 1: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.408
Volume 4, Number 2: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.434
Volume 4, Number 3: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.460
Volume 4, Number 4: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.486
Volume 4, Number 5: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.507

You may also order the full issue in hardcopy or electronic format as well as purchase individual papers in both print and electronic formats.

The sixth, and final, issue will be published shortly.

** Would you like to be an Associate Editor? **
All referees will be credited as Associate Editors for the volume of the Journal in which they have contributed (although, of course, the particular papers they refereed will not be identified). If you would like to referee papers please email cg-support@commongroundpublishing.com, provide a short resume and research interests, and if we have any appropriate papers we will contact you.

** Fifth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society **
30 January to 1 February 2009, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
http://www.Technology-Conference.com/

** Call for Papers **
If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types and other options, see:
http://t09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_types.html. To submit a proposal:
http://t09.cg-conference.com/proposal-entry-intro. Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.

** Registration **
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options, see: http://t09.cg-conference.com/options-fees. To register for the 2009 Technology
Conference, see: http://t09.cgpublisher.com/registration.

** Fifth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society **
30 January to 1 February 2009, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
http://www.Technology-Conference.com/

** Call for Papers **
If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types and other options, see: http://t09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_types.html. To submit a proposal: http://t09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro.
Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.

** Registration **
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present can register at any time. For registration options, see: http://t09.cgpublisher.com/registration_types.html. To register for the 2009 Technology Conference, see: http://t09.cgpublisher.com/registration.

** Award Winner Announcement **
Congratulations to Dr Yasmin Ibrahim, the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the area of Technology, Knowledge and Society.

Paper abstract: Mobility and the convergence of technologies have enabled the wired body to be celebrated as a site for private consumption of music, media and simulated realities. The trends towards personalisation of mobile technologies is implicating the individual body as a collaborator in the creation of media events where the personal gaze of the consumer is contributing to the visual narratives of global and local events. This co-optation of the mediated mobile body as part of the media gaze has initiated new media rituals in constructing event-driven news. This paper examines the personal gaze in the political economy of events construction and the notion of post-surveillance society where mobile bodies become new sites for personal and collective technological gaze into society on an everyday basis.

Dr Ibrahim's paper, The Wired Body and Event Construction: Mobile Technologies and the Technological Gaze, may be accessed in the online bookstore: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.457.

If you have purchased or read this paper, please add a review at
http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.457/add Review.

** International Award - List Of Runners Up **
Mapping Race through Admixture
Catherine Bliss
http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.491

A Content Analysis of Social Identity Cues within the Online Discussions of a White Supremacist Discussion Board
Scott Crabill
http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.455

The Role of ICT in the Development of Empowered Modern Communities
Georgia Gouga
http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.437

Developing Communities of Practice Amongst e-Learning Students: A New Zealand Story
Trevor Nesbit
http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.484

Online Bounded Learning Community Using Universal Design and Adult Learning
Linda E. Robinson, Robert D. Hannafin and David R. Parker
http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.475

** Technology Journal Volume 5 **
Paper submissions are now open for Volume 5 of the Journal.
Submission guidelines can be found at http://t09.cgpublisher.com/publish.html.
You will first need to submit a conference proposal, please see details at http://t09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro.

Once you receive notification that your proposal has been accepted you will be able to upload your full paper for refereeing.

** Technology Journal Volume 4 Five issues of Volume 4 have been published and you can view the contents at **
Volume 4, Number 1: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.408
Volume 4, Number 2: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.434
Volume 4, Number 3: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.460
Volume 4, Number 4: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.486
Volume 4, Number 5: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.507

You may also order the full issue in hardcopy or electronic format as well as purchase individual papers in both print and electronic formats.

** Would you like to be an Associate Editor? **
All referees will be credited as Associate Editors for the volume of the Journal in which they have contributed (although, of course, the particular papers they refereed will not be identified). If you would like to referee papers please email cg-support@commongroundpublishing.com, provide a short resume and research interests, and if we have any appropriate papers we will contact you.

** An Anthropological Introduction To Youtube **
Presented at the Library of Congress
Michael Wesch / You Tube
This video explores the use of YouTube from a cultural and anthropological standpoint, focusing on user communities, how the service affects the lives of amateur videographers, and even how YouTube "stardom" can propel an individual or group into notoriety in the "real world."
For more info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU

** OECD policy guidance for digital content **
OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry
Appropriate policies can increase the contribution of digital content to growth and welfare and spread the benefits more widely. The objective of the principles in this document is to help provide and inform the context for policy discussion, policy analysis, review and development.
For more info: http://www.creative.org.au/linkboard/results. chtml?filename_num=226062

**Conference Announcement**
Icon-2008
6th International Conference On Natural Language Processing
20-22 December 2008, Pune, India
For more info: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/diary#p:42:60

** Call for Papers **
i-manager's Journal of Educational Technology
April-June 2008, Published by i-manager Publications, India
http://www.imanagerpublications.com

For more info: http://ijt.cgpublisher.com/diary#p:42:59