Shaping the Network Society: The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace

2000年5月20日至23日在西雅图的华盛顿大学举行的“塑造网络社会：网络空间公共领域的未来”专题讨论会非常成功。 来自20多个国家的350多名来自各种学术和其他学科的人士参加了会议。 这次研讨会有助于确定和表达大量的跨学科工作。 它帮助揭示了新研究课题的丰富脉络，以及渴望研究这些课题的研究人员的蓬勃发展：组织者收到了100多份回应我们摘要要求的投稿。 也许最重要的是，社区在很大程度上是一个年轻的社区;新一代的研究人员正在加紧解决这些叛乱问题。 这种支助的目的是向广大民众传播专题讨论会的结果。 由于这是第一次也是最值得注意的会议专门讨论这些主题，因此将结果提供给其他研究人员尤为重要。 与此同时，同样重要的是要向非专业人员和一般公众伸出援手。 计算机技术正在迅速地传播到社会的各个部门，“普通”人对他们如何塑造技术以及技术如何塑造他们非常感兴趣。这项工作将帮助人们了解互联网和其他通信技术的挑战和机遇，以及他们自己如何在其持续发展中发挥作用。 本组织计划在这项工作的基础上，以多种方式进一步扩大对这项新工作的认识。 这一建议的主要任务是：（1）根据邀请的专家论文编写一本书;（2）根据研究论文编写一本书;（3）在期刊上开发专题部分（特别是ACM的通信）;（4）将当前和以前的CPSR/DIAC提交到网站上;以及（5）为CPSR通讯编写材料，并为印刷和电子发行编写社论。 这种支持有助于调动志愿人员的强大力量。

The symposium "Shaping the Network Society: The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace" held on May 20 - 23, 2000 at the University of Washington in Seattle was highly successful. Over 350 people from over 20 countries from a wide variety of academic and other disciplines attended the conference. This symposium helped to identify and give voice to a large body of interdisciplinary work. It helped reveal a rich vein of new research topics and a burgeoning community of researchers eager to work on them: organizers received over 100 submissions in response to our call for abstracts. Perhaps most importantly the community was in good measure a younger one; a new generation of researchers is stepping up to address these insurgent issues. The objective of this support is to disseminate the findings of the symposium to a large number of people. Since this was among the first and most notable of conferences devoted to these themes it is particularly important to make the results available to other researchers. At the same time it is equally important to reach out to non-specialists and the general public. Computer technology is rapidly spreading into all sectors of society and "ordinary" people are intensely interested in how they can shape technology and how technology can shape them. This work will help people understand challenges and opportunities of the Internet and other communication technology and how they might themselves play a part in its ongoing development. The organization plans to build on this work and to further expand the awareness of this new work in many ways. The major tasks covered by this proposal are: (1) to develop a book based on invited panelist papers; (2) to develop a book based on research papers; (3) to develop special sections in journals (particularly the Communications of the ACM); (4) to add current and previous CPSR/DIAC submissions to the web site; and (5) to develop material for the CPSR Newsletter and an editorial for print and electronic distribution. This support helps to leverage a strong volunteer effort.