<nettime-ann> France: call to participation 2006 (Vox Internet user's guide)

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

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From: contact@voxinternet.org

>  Call to participation 2006
>
> The Vox Internet project seeks to build an open network within the 
> French scientific field of researchers and experts dedicated to the 
> study of the Internet from the perspective of its technological, 
> social and political development. As the network is based on a portal 
> for the management of documents and publications, its momentum and 
> richness are largely dependent on its breadth and the involvement of 
> each of its members.
>
> The central theme of the 2006-2009 program is entitled : "Internet 
> governance : the democratic construction of standards". In the 
> collaborative process of producing and capitalizing on knowledge which 
> Vox Internet wishes to implement, aside from regular seminars and two 
> colloquia (one to be held half-way through the program and the second 
> at the end of the program), we have launched the web portal 
> voxinternet.org for phase II. This portal is set to become the 
> infrastructure that underpins scientific production within the four 
> program axes that the main issue is broken down into.
>
>  The history and conceptions of communication techniques
> The Internet of things
> Global Practices, Local Governances and Subjectivities
> Media convergences & new subjectivities
>
> As a tool for monitoring and transmitting knowledge, the portal aims 
> to become a free-access knowledge base, a selection of relevant 
> current events and a directory of resources, by making use of all the 
> possibilities offered to researchers by information and communication 
> technologies (ICT).
>
> The portal's objective is to demonstrate the relevance of work carried 
> out in an open and non-hierarchical group that makes efficient use of 
> time and material resources without sacrificing in any way the 
> scientific rigor required of an academic production. Through the 
> disinterested preoccupation of vitalizing and mutualizing SHS research 
> into the questions of the development and regulations of the Internet, 
> we have been led to experiment with the use of ICT as a tool for 
> managing information, measured against the work of knowledge 
> production in a single discipline and constructing the 
> multidisciplinary knowledge necessary for understanding some of the 
> major challenges faced by contemporary societies.
>
>  The project's final aim is to become a crucial body of French, 
> Francophone and European works, to be compared with the abundant North 
> American scientific production on these questions. The project's final 
> aim is to build a crucial body of French, Francophone and European 
> works, to be compared with the abundant North American scientific 
> production on these questions. For this open research network to 
> function successfully, three roles are necessary :
> 	• 	 Participants : (see the user's guide below)
> 	• 	 Authors : An author is a participant who has proposed an article 
> published on the site. The interest of an online publication lies in 
> the ability to make its content dynamic and interactive, by : leading 
> a discussion of the articles proposed and setting up web links to 
> external references.
> 	• 	 Working group moderators : Participants and authors. A moderator 
> guides the evolution of a working group by reviewing and evaluating 
> online resources and managing common resources. Within the piloting 
> committee, he or she will have a key role in organizing the program's 
> seminar sessions and colloquia.
>
>  The Vox Internet network is open to all proposals to take part in its 
> program. As the continuous adaptability and permeability of the 
> network are a major challenge, our knowledge production process is 
> intended as an experiment in the forms of Internet organization 
> applied to the research field.
>  
> Françoise Massit-Folléa
>
>  Scientific coordinator École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences 
> humaines / Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Paris 
> (francoise.massit@club-internet.fr)
>
> Amar Lakel
>
> Research & development Docteur en Sciences de l'information et de la 
> communication Chercheur associé au CRIS, Paris X - Nanterre / FMSH 
> (amar.lakel@u-paris10.fr)
>   
> Projet Vox Internet - Bureau 313
> Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
> 54 bd Raspail
> F - 75270 Paris cedex 06
>  
> Editeur: Vox Internet - Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme - 
> Paris
> http://www.voxinternet.org

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