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The WIDE Research Center announces the First WIDE Conference, "Writing : : Digital Knowledge" April 6&7, 2006 at the James B. Henry Center Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.
The conference brings together researchers concerned with the creation and use of digital information and asks them to focus on these key questions:

• How is the emerging digital economy changing writing practices and the nature of knowledge work -- or how will it?
• How is writing a form of knowledge work? (Is it?)
• What issues, problems, questions face researchers studying the effects of the digital economy on writing practices?

Presenters will focus on how writing relates to the knowledge economy and knowledge work, issues of culture and identity, and related public policy challenges.
The conference begins on Thursday evening, April 6 with a keynote presentation by Barbara Mirel followed by three plenary sessions the next day, Friday April 7. Plenty of time for questions, conversation, and interaction is built into the schedule.