SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES SUMMIT

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13-16 May 2009
Manchester UK

Digital culture burns bright with social connectivity

Futuresonic's acclaimed international conference, the Social Technologies Summit brings 500 opinion formers, futurologists, artists, researchers, technologists and scientists from the digital culture, technology and art communities together around shared issues to do with social media, society, art and the city.

The Social Technologies Summit has prefigured new trends and is a place where important international discussions take place on the latest developments in social media and their implications for society. Discover the small sparks that unfold into new ways of seeing the world and critically explore the latest upgrade affecting
today's digital culture.

It will combine keynotes, critical debates, demos and experiences with open space and participatory sessions, in a fun and engaging event.

Computers have become social interfaces for sharing digital media and collaborating to build online communities and folksonomies. Social technologies create an extension of social space, and new ways for people to come together, meet and share in today's society.

The Social Technologies Summit will explore the new social spaces and the social implications of technologies for the many different kinds of people who make, use and are affected by them. In keeping with the Environment 2.0 theme of Futuresonic in 2009, this year it will also explore the interface between our digital footprint and our environmental footprint, and new thinking on sustainability in a globalised world.

Inviting proposals for talks, presentations, workshops and session themes. Submissions of innovative formats for social interaction and experimentation are encouraged.

Call For Submissions -- Deadline extended 5pm, 3 November 2008

Download an application form / guidelines here:
downloads.futuresonic.com/social2009.zip

See also -- A GBP 5000 commission plus many other opportunities are available in the Futuresonic 2008 Art & EVNTS calls for submissions.
http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved