Dear Colleagues,

ABCIBER – BRAZILIAN ASSOCIATION OF CYBERCULTURE RESEARCHERS has extended the due date for the registration of works to participate in the thematic panels of its 2nd National Symposium, to be held from November 10 to 13, 2008 at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP).
Thank you in advance for disseminating this document among your Research Groups, Programs, Departments and Universities
Warm regards,

Eugênio Trivinho
President of ABCiber
General Coordinator of the Organizing Commission

ABCIBER – BRAZILIAN ASSOCIATION OF CYBERCULTURE RESEARCHERS
2nd NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

PUC-SP
November 10 to 13, 2008
Promotion, sponsorship and organization: see technical info below.

CALL FOR PAPER
 
Reference: participation in thematic panels
Registration: August 29, 2008
Textual reference: expanded abstract (3 pages or 10,800 characters)
Submission of proposed abstract: file sent via Internet
Email address of the Organizing Commission: cencib@pucsp.br
Required data: Title/subtitle of the text, author’s name and affiliation
List of approved papers will be published on: September 15, 2008
Due date for presentation of full papers: September 29, 2008.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

[1] THE PAPERS SUBMITTED FOR THIS EVENT SHOULD BE UNPUBLISHED (i.e., written exclusively for participation in this Symposium, not presented or published prior to this event).

[2] Papers will be evaluated and selected by a Judging Committee composed of members of the Directorate and/or ABCiber’s Scientific Advisory Board (see below).

[3] The thematic panels for presentation of papers will be organized according to thematic affinity and will be published soon.

[4] The Organizing Commission will launch a reference web site in the next few days, containing detailed and progressive information about the event (programming, dynamic structure, registration fees, etc.).

[5] Expenses incurred by participation on the panels, if not covered by ABCiber, should be defrayed with origin funds.

REFERENCES FOR THE EDITING OF COMPLETE TEXTS

Theme: free, relating to ongoing research and inserted within the broad scope of cyberculture studies.
Ideal size of the text: 10 to15 pages (or 36 thousand to 54 thousand characters), including footnotes and references.
Font/size: Times New Roman, 12.
Detailed suggestions:
          title: font size 17 (upper-case letters, bold type)
          subtitle: font size 15 (upper and lower-case, bold type)
          intertitles (indented tabulation):
          topic: font size 15 (upper and lower-case, bold type);
          subtopic: font size 13 (same as above);
          item/subitem: font size 12 (same as above).
Spacing between lines: single
Citations standard: Brazilian NBR 10520/2002 (ABNT)
References standard: Brazilian NBR 6023/2002 (ABNT)
Photographic resolution: compatible with off-set printing.

Category:
Symposium of a national scientific and cultural association

Title:
“2nd National Symposium of ABCiber – Brazilian Association of Cyberculture Researchers”

General Coordinator:
Eugênio Trivinho
President of ABCiber

Period:
November 10 to 13, 2008

Offered by:
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Rua Monte Alegre, 984 - Perdizes - São Paulo/SP - CEP 05014-901
Tel.: 55 11 3670-8000

Promoted by:
Program of Post-Graduate Studies on Communication and Semiotics (PEPGCOS)
Rua João Ramalho, 182, 4th floor - Perdizes - São Paulo/SP - CEP 05008-000
Phones: 55 11 3672-8288 and 55 11 3672-8906 - Fax: 55 11 3873-1374
cos@pucsp.br

Organized by:
CENCIB – Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Communications and Cyberculture, PUC-SP

Organizing Commission:
Assistant Coordinator – Edilson Cazeloto
Press Relations – Ana Lúcia Moura Fé, Angela Pintor and Michelle Prazeres
Institutional site and online publicity – Paulo Alves de Lima
Graphic design – Jorgson Smith Jr. and Paulo Alves de Lima
Management of electronic mail – Heloisa Pereira
Project development – Angela Pintor and Zaira Regina Zafalon
Air transport, transfers, accommodations, food, electronic infrastructure, production of printed materials and operational support – Heloisa Pereira, Letícia Capanema and Daniel Guimarães
Tourist information – Letícia Capanema and Daniel Guimarães

Translation
Inglês - Beatrice Allain (ballain@terra.com.br)
Espanhol - Adriana Kanzepolsky (sadrina@attglobal.net)
Francês - Jean-Jacques Herbaud (jazzbartok@hotmail.com)

Venue: PUC-SP
Bandeira de Mello Building, Rua Monte Alegre 984, 5th floor, Perdizes, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
TUCA Auditorium, Rua Monte Alegre, 984, Perdizes, São Paulo

Timetable:
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Reference hotel:
Transamérica Flat Perdizes
Rua Monte Alegre, 835, Perdizes
Tel: 55 11 3866-1250 - Fax: 55 11 3866-1250

Information:
Organizing Commission
cencib@pucsp.br
simposio2008abciber@cencib.org