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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">The Center for the Study of Information and Religion in Kent State's School
of Library and Information Science welcomes abstracts for consideration for its fifth annual Conference on Information and Religion, scheduled for June 4 and 5, 2015, at Kent State University. </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#1F497D">DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS IS OCT. 1, 2014.
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SUBMIT HERE: <a href="http://digitalcommons.kent.edu/cgi/login.cgi?return_to=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcommons.kent.edu%2Fcgi%2Fir_submit.cgi%3Fcontext%3Dacir&context=acir">
http://digitalcommons.kent.edu/cgi/login.cgi?return_to=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcommons.kent.edu%2Fcgi%2Fir_submit.cgi%3Fcontext%3Dacir&context=acir</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">The conference theme is “New Technologies and Religious Communities.” David Michels,
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white">Ph.D.,
<span style="color:black">Head of Public Services at the Sir James Dunn Law Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, will present the keynote address.</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Technology offers new resources that impact preaching by integrating multimedia in worship, expanding outreach through streaming services and podcasts, and providing live feedback through tools such as Twitter/chat. The life of
religious communities is also impacted by new communication technologies that blur the boundaries of local and remote participation and challenge traditional ideas of koinonia. Our keynote speaker and participants will explore these issues and others. </span><br>
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<span style="background:white">This call for proposals seeks original contributions in all areas related to information and religion. The conference theme invites participants to share their work in a variety of areas that might be called intersections of technology
with religion and information. Topics that might be addressed include but are not limited to the following:</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Uses of information technology and/or social media in preaching, ministry and the life of the religious community as a whole – including (but not limited
to) worship, children’s and youth ministries, organizational management, record-keeping, operation of religious libraries;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Privacy and security issues in information management or social media applications for religious organizations;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Uses of information by members of religious communities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Uses of information to add value to membership in a religious organization;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Dissemination of information by religious organizations;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Auto-ethnography as a research method in religious organizations;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Prospective participants are encouraged to submit abstracts that report on recent research and scholarship. Contributions to this call for papers should not have been previously published. There are no restrictions on research methodology. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Deadlines:<br>
Oct. 1, 2014: Deadline to submit abstracts - Click on the "Submit Event" link on the left side of this page.<br>
Nov. 15, 2014: Notification of acceptance<br>
May 1, 2015: Deadline to submit final, completed papers in order for them to be considered for publication in ASIR: Advances in the Study of Information and Religion. <br>
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Papers must be in proper APA style. Additional details regarding submission of full papers will be sent to those whose abstracts are accepted for conference presentation. Once selected, presenters are responsible for their own expenses related to the conference,
including but not limited to registration fees, lodging, transportation and meals. <br>
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STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE.<br>
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For more information, please contact Dr. Don Wicks (<a href="mailto:dwicks@kent.edu">dwicks@kent.edu</a>), Director of CSIR, or Dr. Dan Roland (<a href="mailto:droland1@kent.edu">droland1@kent.edu</a>), CSIR Primary Researcher.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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