The conference has been completed.
In particular, there are photos of the overheads shown in Sessions 6, 8, 17, 20, and 25.
The following events have been completed
The panel attempts to describe concretely how ‘hybrid collectives’ accompanied with information technologies and other artifacts are constituted. It also attempts to clarify the role of information technologies in the dynamic reorganization of those collectives and its practices through case studies of mobile phone and computer use in various sites such as a workplace, families, a municipal office, and a scientific lab.
The Fourth Nordic Conference is expected to be held in 2007.
There is a growing international interest, across disciplinary boundaries, in cultural-historical approaches to research of historically-constructed human practices, especially those that have a critical importance for society, such as work, education, and health-care. Researchers and practitioners find these approaches, including specific theoretical traditions such as activity theory, cultural-historical psychology, and sociocultural studies, to be useful when dealing with complex phenomena of social practice and their developmental transformations.
The Nordic countries have a strong tradition of theoretical and practical work based on activity theory and cultural-historical psychology in areas, such as education, transformations of work and organizations, human-computer interaction, and so forth.
The Nordic conferences on cultural and activity research aim to bring together those who work within these approaches or who are interested in extending their conceptual frameworks by relating them to activity theory and cultural-historical research.
The Third Nordic conference builds on the success of the previous two conferences (Helsinki, 1997; Ronneby, 2001), which have provided a forum for exchanging ideas, experiences, and opinions and the exploration of common interests, problems, and possibilities for cooperation among researchers and practitioners in Nordic countries.
The third Nordic conference on Cultural and Activity Research will be multidisciplinary, presenting theoretical and empirical research on societal, cultural and historical dimensions of human practices.
A main goal of the conference is to create conditions that will support dialogue and debate about theoretical perspectives in relation to specific areas of investigation. There will thematically-organized individual paper sessions, and thematic sessions that present a series of papers or discussions in relation to a specific theme.
This website provides all that is currently known about the conference as of 3. July 2004.
If you have additional questions or concerns, then please write to: 3NC@iscar.org