To encourage openness and the sharing of information, the conference—excepting formal paper presentations—will operate under the Chatham House Rule, which states:
"When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed".
The Rule and our request for adherence to it will be prominently signposted throughout the conference venue.
For more on the Chatham House Rule, see http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/about/chathamhouserule/.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Monday is Closing Date for Registration
The last date for registration for DCU's forthcoming Terrorism and New Media Conference is MONDAY, 23 AUGUST. (There will be no on-site registration).
Registration should be completed online at http://www.dcu.ie/~cis/TNM/registration/
Fees are as follows:
NB: Conference fee includes all refreshments, lunch, welcome reception on the evening of Tuesday, September 7 and the conference dinner on the evening of Wednesday, September 8.
Registration should be completed online at http://www.dcu.ie/~cis/TNM/registration/
Fees are as follows:
NB: Conference fee includes all refreshments, lunch, welcome reception on the evening of Tuesday, September 7 and the conference dinner on the evening of Wednesday, September 8.
- Standard = €195
- Graduate Student (Full-Time, ID Required) = €110
- Accompanying Partner (Welcome Dinner and Reception only) = €60
Friday, August 13, 2010
Information/Guidelines for Paper Presenters
The following was emailed to all paper presenters on Aug. 9, 2010, and is reproduced here FYI:
Dear TNM Conference Paper Presenters,
It's under a month until DCU's Terrorism and New Media Conference. Please find below some new information and some reminders for paper presenters.
PAPER GUIDELINES
Full conference papers must be submitted to us by 23 August 2010. Papers should be in Word format and emailed as an attachment to terrorisminternetconf@dcu.ie.
Those wishing to have their paper considered for publication in Media, War & Conflict should follow the Guidelines for Authors of the journal (see http://tinyurl.com/368gn3d) and indicate their desire for the paper to be considered for publication in their email submission.
PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
Each conference session will be 90 minutes in duration. Each paper presenter will have 15 minutes to present their paper. Please note that, in the interests of fairness, this time limit will be strictly enforced by Chairs. The time remaining after all papers have been presented will be devoted to Q&A/discussion with the audience, moderated by the Chair.
Presenters are welcome to employ PowerPoint in their presentations. All presenters using PowerPoint should load their files from a memory stick/flash drive onto the computer in the appropriate room directly prior to their panel start time.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The DRAFT conference programme is now available online at http://www.dcu.ie/~cis/TNM/programme/.
There will be a welcome reception in the Trinity Capital Hotel from c.7.30 - 9pm on the evening of Tuesday, 7 September. The conference proper will run from c.8.30am - 6pm on Wednesday and Thursday, 8 - 9 September in Dublin city centre. The conference dinner will take place on the evening of Wednesday, 8 September, also in Dublin city centre.
If you have any further queries, please don't hesitate to drop us a line at terrorisminternetconf@dcu.ie.
We look forward to seeing you all in Dublin next month.
Dear TNM Conference Paper Presenters,
It's under a month until DCU's Terrorism and New Media Conference. Please find below some new information and some reminders for paper presenters.
PAPER GUIDELINES
Full conference papers must be submitted to us by 23 August 2010. Papers should be in Word format and emailed as an attachment to terrorisminternetconf@dcu.ie.
Those wishing to have their paper considered for publication in Media, War & Conflict should follow the Guidelines for Authors of the journal (see http://tinyurl.com/368gn3d) and indicate their desire for the paper to be considered for publication in their email submission.
PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
Each conference session will be 90 minutes in duration. Each paper presenter will have 15 minutes to present their paper. Please note that, in the interests of fairness, this time limit will be strictly enforced by Chairs. The time remaining after all papers have been presented will be devoted to Q&A/discussion with the audience, moderated by the Chair.
Presenters are welcome to employ PowerPoint in their presentations. All presenters using PowerPoint should load their files from a memory stick/flash drive onto the computer in the appropriate room directly prior to their panel start time.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The DRAFT conference programme is now available online at http://www.dcu.ie/~cis/TNM/programme/.
There will be a welcome reception in the Trinity Capital Hotel from c.7.30 - 9pm on the evening of Tuesday, 7 September. The conference proper will run from c.8.30am - 6pm on Wednesday and Thursday, 8 - 9 September in Dublin city centre. The conference dinner will take place on the evening of Wednesday, 8 September, also in Dublin city centre.
If you have any further queries, please don't hesitate to drop us a line at terrorisminternetconf@dcu.ie.
We look forward to seeing you all in Dublin next month.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Some general discussion re. conference
We posted our CfP and conference updates on Linked-In and have recently received some comments on the conference that I thought it might be interesting to share. The original comments are below and my response follows.
Comment 1: "I'm certainly interested, but I'm very sceptical about academic conferences on this subject, especially when there is already a pretty strong body of knowledge on this very field in the intelligence and security community."
Comment 2: "While I'm certain the individual presentations will be of utmost interest and important contributions to the field, it is not entirely accurate to claim that “This is the first academic conference to subject the relationship between terrorism and new media, particularly the Internet, to truly multi-disciplinary scrutiny.” In mid-September 2006 I participated in a NATO Advanced Workshop on “Hypermedia Seduction for Terrorist Recruiting” that brought together multidisciplinary experts from the fields of terrorism, counterterrorism, media, graphic design, and marketing to explore these issues in entirely new ways. It resulted in the edited volume (see below). Since 2006, lots of other conferences that look at this issue in multidisciplinary ways have also been organized. A problem in the community is that no one keeps track of their multidisciplinary makeup or builds and advances on their findings, so that every time a conference on this topic is held—thanks to the generosity of unaware funders—the organizers can get away in claiming that their conference is the first such effort in the field instead of advancing the state of knowledge to the next level, as is common practice in the scientific and technical disciplines. This is intended as a critique of the discipline of terrorism studies, not any individual conference." [Details of book arising out of NATO workshop snipped].
Conway response: "I am the Chair of the conference under discussion and welcome your comments.
Regarding [the first commenter's] scepticism about academic conferences on terrorism and the Internet that is based, at least partly, in his belief that “there is already a pretty strong body of knowledge on this very field in the intelligence and security community”: obviously, the intelligence and security communities don’t have the same function(s) as academe, one of which is to produce and communicate--both to students and the general public--research and analysis about topics such as the intersection of terrorism and the Internet. This is in contrast to the “pretty strong body of knowledge” that may (or may not) be possessed by the intelligence and security communities, which is not widely disseminated outside of these.
This, in turn, raises the question of interest(s): namely the interests of academia versus those of the intelligence and security communities. My interest, as an academic, is generally with macro-level questions, like ‘Can people be radicalised online?’ It seems to me that persons working in the intelligence and security communities are generally more concerned with tactical- or operational-level issues. Our interests are not necessarily therefore at odds, but they are certainly different. This is without touching at all upon the interests of those who work within government circles (or indeed, increasingly, the private security sector) and the effects their positioning may produce in terms of their analyses versus the benefits of outsider status and thus the ability to engage in more robust critique of especially received government wisdom.
On [the second commenter's] assertion that the claim that ours “is the first academic conference to subject the relationship between terrorism and new media, particularly the Internet, to truly multi-disciplinary scrutiny” is inaccurate: I must disagree. I am familiar with the NATO workshop that [the second commenter] mentions; it was called a “workshop” for a reason, because the presenters were all invitees (and perhaps the audience, if there was such, also). This is common in this area, which is not to say that it should be encouraged. For our part, we made a conscious decision to publish an open call for papers, which we made the effort to distribute as widely as possible. In particular, we were interested in having not just a good mix of academics and, for want of a better word, ‘practitioners,’ but also contributions from both established scholars in this area and young researchers. These young researchers, given that they have grown-up with the Internet and are most of them heavy users of same, are surely well-placed to be conducting relevant research in the area and thus deserve a hearing. They are not generally invited--or not many of them, at least--to the invite-only ‘meetings,’ ‘workshops,’ ‘symposia,’ etc., common in this field. Ours is an ‘academic conference’ as traditionally understood therefore, in which the only criteria for selection was the quality of one’s submitted abstract."
Comment 1: "I'm certainly interested, but I'm very sceptical about academic conferences on this subject, especially when there is already a pretty strong body of knowledge on this very field in the intelligence and security community."
Comment 2: "While I'm certain the individual presentations will be of utmost interest and important contributions to the field, it is not entirely accurate to claim that “This is the first academic conference to subject the relationship between terrorism and new media, particularly the Internet, to truly multi-disciplinary scrutiny.” In mid-September 2006 I participated in a NATO Advanced Workshop on “Hypermedia Seduction for Terrorist Recruiting” that brought together multidisciplinary experts from the fields of terrorism, counterterrorism, media, graphic design, and marketing to explore these issues in entirely new ways. It resulted in the edited volume (see below). Since 2006, lots of other conferences that look at this issue in multidisciplinary ways have also been organized. A problem in the community is that no one keeps track of their multidisciplinary makeup or builds and advances on their findings, so that every time a conference on this topic is held—thanks to the generosity of unaware funders—the organizers can get away in claiming that their conference is the first such effort in the field instead of advancing the state of knowledge to the next level, as is common practice in the scientific and technical disciplines. This is intended as a critique of the discipline of terrorism studies, not any individual conference." [Details of book arising out of NATO workshop snipped].
Conway response: "I am the Chair of the conference under discussion and welcome your comments.
Regarding [the first commenter's] scepticism about academic conferences on terrorism and the Internet that is based, at least partly, in his belief that “there is already a pretty strong body of knowledge on this very field in the intelligence and security community”: obviously, the intelligence and security communities don’t have the same function(s) as academe, one of which is to produce and communicate--both to students and the general public--research and analysis about topics such as the intersection of terrorism and the Internet. This is in contrast to the “pretty strong body of knowledge” that may (or may not) be possessed by the intelligence and security communities, which is not widely disseminated outside of these.
This, in turn, raises the question of interest(s): namely the interests of academia versus those of the intelligence and security communities. My interest, as an academic, is generally with macro-level questions, like ‘Can people be radicalised online?’ It seems to me that persons working in the intelligence and security communities are generally more concerned with tactical- or operational-level issues. Our interests are not necessarily therefore at odds, but they are certainly different. This is without touching at all upon the interests of those who work within government circles (or indeed, increasingly, the private security sector) and the effects their positioning may produce in terms of their analyses versus the benefits of outsider status and thus the ability to engage in more robust critique of especially received government wisdom.
On [the second commenter's] assertion that the claim that ours “is the first academic conference to subject the relationship between terrorism and new media, particularly the Internet, to truly multi-disciplinary scrutiny” is inaccurate: I must disagree. I am familiar with the NATO workshop that [the second commenter] mentions; it was called a “workshop” for a reason, because the presenters were all invitees (and perhaps the audience, if there was such, also). This is common in this area, which is not to say that it should be encouraged. For our part, we made a conscious decision to publish an open call for papers, which we made the effort to distribute as widely as possible. In particular, we were interested in having not just a good mix of academics and, for want of a better word, ‘practitioners,’ but also contributions from both established scholars in this area and young researchers. These young researchers, given that they have grown-up with the Internet and are most of them heavy users of same, are surely well-placed to be conducting relevant research in the area and thus deserve a hearing. They are not generally invited--or not many of them, at least--to the invite-only ‘meetings,’ ‘workshops,’ ‘symposia,’ etc., common in this field. Ours is an ‘academic conference’ as traditionally understood therefore, in which the only criteria for selection was the quality of one’s submitted abstract."
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