The journal Information Communication & Society (iCS) will be holding a conference on the 5th and 6th of September 2007, entitled ‘Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0’. For information about the conference see:
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/siru/web2.0conferenceCFP.pdf
I’d encourage you to consider submitting a paper or attending. These events are kept to numbers that enable interchange and good discussion of presentations. They also provide a useful opportunity to become more familiar with the journal and its editors.
By the way, if you have an interest in the origin of the term ‘Web 2.0’, you might find the following article of interest:
http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html
Great that you will be participating, Bill
The Personal Research Portal: Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0
The 5th and 6th of September 2007 takes place the conference Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0, organized by the Information, Communication and Society Journal. The conference will be hold at the National Science Learning Centre, York, UK.
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