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Dear Dr Hodkinson

I am a Sociology Mphil student researching on youth and new technology in
mainland China. I am interested in the Conference, but does my research field
related to the theme of the conference?

I am looking forward to your reply. 

Regards
Gary 






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 Due to the timing of the Easter break we have decided to extend the deadline
 for receipt of abstracts for the Young People and New Technologies
 conference. The new deadline is *15th April*.
 
 We have already received a number of excellent proposals and look forward to
 receiving many more over the next two weeks. If in doubt, please do submit
 something! Abstracts need only be approximately 200 words in length. Please
 include full contact details and let us know what equipment you will
 require.
 
 The full call for papers is reproduced below.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Paul.
 
 
 
 CALL FOR PAPERS
 ‘Young People and New Technologies?
 University College Northampton, U.K. September 7th-9th 2005
 Organised by the British Sociological Association Youth Study Group.
 
 KEY SPEAKERS CONFIRMED AS SONIA LIVINGSTONE AND BILL OSGERBY
 
 Abstracts are invited for an interdisciplinary conference focused upon the
 relationships between young people and new technologies.
 
 As the use of new media technologies has become increasingly widespread in
 Western societies, the significance of such new technologies for
 adolescents has become a crucial area of research. Whether in respect of
 their patterns of leisure and identity, their modes of learning and
 transition, or their everyday domestic lives, youth are among the heaviest
 and most dynamic users of a variety of new technologies, most notably
 perhaps, the various facets of the internet, together with mobile phones,
 digital television, games consoles and digital music players. At the same
 time however, it is clear that levels of access and use are subject to
 considerable variations in quantity and quality.
 
 The conference organisers invite proposals from academics and other
 researchers, as well as those working with young people in a professional
 capacity, whether in the voluntary or state sector.
 
 Papers should fall within the area of ‘young people and new technologies?
 and we would particularly encourage contributions which address the topic
 from the point of view of one or more of the following categories:
 
 * Questions of access/exclusion/inclusion
 * New media, leisure and lifestyle
 * Community learning/participation and ICTs
 * Place, space and globalisation
 * Surveillance and risk
 * Use of mobile communications technologies
 * Individual and/or collective use of the internet
 * Youth subcultures/scenes/tribes
 * Gender/sexuality
 * Education/training/transitions
 * Work and employment
 * Gaming Cultures
 * Production and marketing of ‘youth?technologies
 * Questions of policy and/or regulation
 * Ethnicity and/or nation
 * Methodological questions
 
 At this stage these areas of interest are merely intended to illustrate
 the range of topics which may be included within the conference.
 Conference streams will be decided upon subsequent to the receipt and
 review of abstracts.
 
 *The deadline for abstracts  has been extended to April 15th 2005*
 Please send all abstracts (approx 200 words) by email to Paul Hodkinson:
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