This will be a great get-together.
How do the Christian faith and the Internet impact upon each other?
What place might the Bible have in our digital world?
Come and join us as our panel of expert speakers engage with these topics and others relating to issues of faith in the digital world.
Speakers:
Mark Brown
CEO, Bible Society New Zealand & founder Anglican Cathedral in Second Life.
Stephen Garner
Lecturer in Theology and Popular Culture, School of Theology, University of Auckland.
Heidi Campbell
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication, Texas A&M University & author of Exploring Religious Community Online.
Tim Bulkeley
Lecturer in Old Testament, Carey Baptist College & developer of the Amos Hypertext Commentary & podBible projects.
Saturday 5 September 2009
9am-12pm
OGGB4 Lecture Theatre, Level 0, Owen G Glenn Building, Grafton Road, The University of Auckland
Please register your attendance by Wednesday 2 September, with theologyadmin@auckland.ac.nz
Cost $5 (morning tea provided)
This is not my area, and I won’t be attending the conference, but it looks both interesting and very important, so when it came across my inbox I thought I shouldn’t not promote it. Thanks to Jaz Choi for sending the notice out.
Call for Participation
Hungry 24/7? HCI Design for Sustainable Food Culture
Full day workshop at OZCHI 2009
24 Nov 2009, The University of Melbourne
http://food.urbaninformatics.net/events/ozchi2009/
http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/HUNGRY247
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128413300549
This workshop proposes to explore new approaches to cultivate and support sustainable food culture in urban environments via human computer interaction design and ubiquitous technologies.
Food is a challenging issue in urban contexts: while food consumption decisions are made many times a day, most food interaction for urbanites occurs based on convenience and habitual practices. This situation is contrasting to the fact that food is at the centre of global environment, health, and social issues that are becoming increasingly immanent and imminent. As such, it is timely and crucial to ask: what are feasible, effective, and innovative ways to improve human-food-interaction through human-computer-interaction in order to contribute to environmental, health, and social sustainability in urban environments?
This workshop is an open and active forum for forward- thinking practitioners and scholars across disciplines to discuss this question, and plan and promote individual, local, and global change for sustainable food culture.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE WORKING IN FOOD HCI RESEARCH.
YOU DO NEED TO BE HUNGRY (for networking, knowledge, creativity, fun, and of course, food!)
We suggest, but do not limit to, three broad topics of interests for this workshop:
- Participatory networks
- Research and design methods
- Deployability and interoperability
We kindly ask prospective participants to submit a short position statement (300-500 words) or abstract by 20th September 2009. Please send all submissions and queries to Jaz Choi at h.choi@qut.edu.au.
Acceptance notification will be sent by 27th September 2009.
Important Dates:
- 20 Sep 2009: Submission of position statements
- 27 Sep 2009: Notification of acceptance
- 24 Nov 2009: Workshop
Organisers:
- Jaz Hee-jeong Choi (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Marcus Foth (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Greg Hearn (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Eli Blevis (Indiana University, USA)
- Tad Hirsch (Intel, USA)
In this article, Nicholas Carr questions the impact of Internet use on how we think. It’s a well-informed piece if you’re interested in histories of media technology and human interaction with text. But it’s sooooooo hyped – he talks about his flailing ability to read long tracks of words, and is quicker to blame the Internet than the fact he may well just be getting a little older. And he links inability to concentrate with stupidity. So wrong.
