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April 14, 2012
April 14, 2012
#TtW12 is under way!
April 13, 2012 Pre-Registration ends at 10 pm EST. On-site registration will follow the same pay-what-you-model. $5 minimum. April 12, 2012 Friday Pre-Conference Event Plans We'll be meeting at Hill Country BBQ for lunch at 2:30 on Friday. From lunch we'll go to the Art of Video Games exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery/American Art Museum. Then, at 7:00 we'll be hosting a happy hour at BlackByrd Warehouse in the historic U Street neighborhood downtown.
April 11, 2012 Presenters: #TtW12 conference rooms have projectors and sound; however, Mac users should note that the video inputs are vga only.
April 10, 2012 #TtW12 will take place in the Art-Sociology building at the University of Maryland. Parking in Lot 1 on is free and convenient on Saturday.
April 9, 2012 Register here for the screening of Over & Out and get a free lunch.
April 4, 2012 Share the #TtW12 promo flyer:
April 3, 2012 A .pdf of the print program is now available!
March 28, 2012 Overhauled program based on feedback. Now more mobile friendly and includes presentation titles.
March 27, 2012 Now, by popular demand: a new mobile version of the program.
March 26, 2012 We've posted a preliminary program complete with an introductory letter. Get excited!
March 25, 2012 "Backchannel Moderators" added to each session. This is a little experiment that we are conducting aimed at augmenting the conference by better connecting online and offline. The backchannel moderator will act as a panel's official livetweeter and will compile questions from Twitter for the Q&A session.
March 22, 2012 Excited to announce #TtW12 will feature a screening of Over & Out, "a queer romantic comedy about using alternative and older modes of communication in a world dominated by digital technology." Includes an interesting take on "logging off" of social media. Writer Kelsey Brannan will be on hand to disccuss. March 1, 2012 Presenters: Be sure to fill out the participant information form. February 15, 2012 Registration is live! Sign up now to attend #TtW12. February 6, 2012 Two big announcements: 1.) We are making arrangements to live-stream and video archive all sessions. 2.) We are working out the details of a possible Theorizing the Web special issue of Future Internet to compliment the conference. More details to follow. February 5, 2012 In light of the overwhelming response to our call for papers, we are Extending Our Deadline one day to February 6th, 11:59 EST. We will start the review process on February 7th and contact submitters within the next couple weeks. January 25, 2012 #TtW12 keynote announced: “Social Media & Social Movements” Andy Carvin (NPR; @acarvin) with Zeynep Tufekci (UNC; @techsoc)
January 16, 2012 The abstract submission form for #TtW12 is available:
January 15, 2012 We are pleased to announce that planning for Theorizing the Web 2012 is under way. Find the Call for Papers here. Follow @TtW_conf for all the latest updates. On April 9th, 2011, over 200 people attended the first “Theorizing the Web” conference held on the University of Maryland campus. The program consisted of 14 panels, two workshops, two symposia (one on social media’s role in the Arab revolutions, the other, a conversation with Martin Irvine, Director of the Irvine Contemporary Gallery, on social media and street art), two plenaries (by Saskia Sassen on “Digital Formations of the Powerful and the Powerless” and George Ritzer on “Why the Web Needs Post-Modern Theory”), and a keynote by Danah Boyd, Microsoft Research, on “Privacy, Publicity Intertwined.” Presenters travelled from around the world (including Hong Kong and New Zealand).
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