Theorizing the Web | Conference 2011 – 4/9
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Technology has always been social and society has always been technological. This fact has become increasingly difficult to ignore following the recent explosion of collaborative and user-generated content—what is now generally referred to as “social media” or “Web 2.0.” The social Web has the potential to change and/or reinforce some of our most fundamental social relationships, including those with others, our selves, our bodies and our experience with reality itself. We wish to assemble a multi-disciplinary group of scholars interested in exploring how the Web both influences and is influenced by the social.
