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NEW TECHNOLOGIES & SOCIAL WELFARE
December 17, 2001
University of Nottingham
A one-day conference to examine the impact that
new technologies are having upon social welfare
As Information and Communication Technologies grow in importance what are
the implications for citizenship, inequality and welfare services? This
conference will explore these issues by bringing together some of the key
influences on the debate. It will be of principal interest to those in
Social Policy, Politics, Public Policy & Sociology.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Paul Frissen, Tilburg University, Netherlands
“Reinventing the Social Domain”
Author of Politics, Governance and Technology, Edward Elgar, 1999
David Lyon, Queens University, Canada
“Virtual citizens? Speed, Distance, and Moral Selves”
Author of Surveillance Society, Open U. P., 2001
Mark Poster, University of California at Irvine, USA
“Citizenship, Digital Media and Globalization”
Author of The Second Media Age, Blackwell, 1995
Flis Henwood, University of Brighton
“Negotiating Gender and ICTs in Health Care”
Co-editor of Technology and In/equality, Routledge, 2000
Roger Burrows, University of York, UK
“Reflexive Modernization and the Emergence of Wired Self-Help”
Co-author of 'Virtual Community Care? Social Policy and the Emergence of
Computer Mediated Social Support' Information, Communication and Society
(2000)
Brian Loader, University of Teeside
“ICTs and Social Welfare”
Co-editor of Community Informatics, Routledge, 2001
Call for Papers
There will also be opportunities available for those interested in
presenting a paper.
Abstracts (100-200 words) must be submitted by October 31 to the organiser.
Registration
This conference is being subsidised by the University of Nottingham and
there is no conference fee. However, participants must register by
November 28 at the latest. Registration forms are available from the
organiser. Further details on the conference will be sent out from the
beginning of October.
Organised by
Tony Fitzpatrick
School of Sociology & Social Policy
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, UK
+44 (0) 115 951 5230
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