From Folksonomies to Facebook: All Things Web 2.0 (MPCA/ACA)

From Folksonomies to Facebook: All Things Web 2.0 (MPCA/ACA)

Location:	Ohio, United States
Call for Papers Date:	2008-04-30 (Archive)
Date Submitted:	2008-03-24
Announcement ID:	161644

The Web 2.0 Area (formerly Blogs and Wikis) of the Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association seeks papers on any aspect of collaborative online technologies such as blogs, wikis, social networking software, tagging and folksonomies.

Possible topics include:
*What is Web 2.0?
*Issues of authority in Web 2.0
*Bottom-up technologies in top-down institutions
*Social networking on Facebook and MySpace
*YouTube, Flickr, Google Images, and the new visual vocabulary
*Lowerarchies: tagging and folksonomies
*Wikiquette
*WikiFolk or Fauna
*Prosumption: collapse of production/consumption in Web 2.0

Please send a brief abstract (250 words) and a note about your field and institutional affiliation by April 30, 2008. Email submissions and inquiries to Molly at this address:

MPCA/MACA - Regional Conference
October 3-5, 2008
Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio

Molly Moran
Graduate student, Program in Communication, Culture, and Technology,
Georgetown University
Senior New Media Advisor, U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC
moranme@state.gov
202.663.0244
Email: mem96@georgetown.edu
Visit the website at http://www.mpcaaca.org/conference

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