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[Paul B. Hartzog]

anyone interested in pairing up to do one of these?
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Trebor Scholz sent a message to the members of Institute for
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 Subject: Call for Proposals

 The Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series invites submissions for its
upcoming volume on "Situated Advocacy."

 Advocacy is the act of arguing on behalf of a particular issue, idea
or person, and addresses issues including self-advocacy, environmental
protection, the rights of women, youth and minorities, social justice,
the re-structured digital divide and political reform. How have
Situated Technologies been—or might be—mobilized toward changing
and/or influencing social or political policies, practices, and
beliefs? What new forms of advocacy are enabled by contemporary
location-based or context-aware media and information systems? How
might they lend tactical support to the process of managing
information flows and disseminating strategic knowledge that
influences individual behavior or opinion, corporate conduct or public
policy and law?

 We are seeking submissions from pairs of authors, in keeping with the
format of a "conversation" between two individuals or groups. Please
submit a 500 word abstract and short bio for each author (150 words
max) in Rich Text Format (RTF) by February 15, 2008 to editors [at]
situatedtechnologies [dot] net. We expect final manuscripts will range
from 7,500-10,000 words and will be due by May 16, 2008. Please
contact us if you have questions about potential essays or the
Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series in general.


 About
 The Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series extends a discourse
initiated in the summer of 2006 by a three-month-long discussion on
the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) mailing list, which
culminated in the Architecture and Situated Technologies symposium at
the Urban Center and Eyebeam in New York that October, co-produced by
the Center for Virtual Architecture, the Architectural League of New
York, and the iDC.

 The series aims to explore the implications of ubiquitous computing
for architecture and urbanism: How are our experience of the city and
the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive
media, ambient informatics, and other "situated" technologies? How
will the ability to design increasingly responsive environments alter
the ways we conceive of space? What do architects need to know about
urban computing, and what do technologists need to know about cities?
How are these issues themselves situated within larger social,
cultural, environmental, and political concerns?

 Published three times a year over three years, the series is
structured as a succession of nine "conversations" between
researchers, writers and other practitioners of architecture, art,
philosophy of technology, comparative media study, performance
studies, and engineering. It takes on the urgent and ambitious task of
exploring the implications of emerging technologies and their
intersection with daily life.

 Such a rapid insertion of texts into discourse is rarely witnessed
within the context of traditional US publishing, which often requires
years to go from manuscript to distribution of the printed book. We
feel strongly that the discussion about Situated Technologies cannot
be postponed that long. At the same time, we acknowledge that the
subject is itself a moving target, as these technologies continue to
evolve rapidly. Given these considerations, we've opted to publish the
series using Print On Demand (POD) technology. Widely used but still
little known, this publishing technique allows fast turnaround of
books that can be ordered through online bookstores and are
indistinguishable from many books in your bookshelf.

 Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard
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