Connected Action

A great conference on social aspects of technology is coming up soon:

2009 Communities and Technologies Conference

C&T 2009
June 25-27, 2009
The Pennsylvania State University
Information Sciences and Technology Building

In an increasingly networked world, the concept of community has taken on new meanings and inspired the development of a wide range of technologies aimed at forging connections, improving communication, and enabling coordination among groups of people. Today, such terms as virtual community, blogging, podcasting, and smart mobs have become commonplace, yet each represents a complex system of hardware, software, and people, shaped by perceptions, norms, rules, and habits, and occurring within varied social and cultural settings.

The Communities and Technologies biennial international conference serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – both physical and virtual – and information and communication technologies. Researchers studying aspects of this interaction between communities and technologies, regardless of disciplinary background, are providing original contributions to the Fourth International Conference on Communities and Technologies.

http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/workshops.cfm

http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/program.cfm

I am please to note that a paper about NodeXL will appear at the Communities and Technologies conference, there will also be a workshop on the use of the tool presented prior to the official start of the conference.

Penn State hosts C&T 2009

Hope to see you there!

Here are some pictures from the prior Communities and Technologies conference in 2007 on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.