The 2006 Oxford Media Convention (19 January, Oxford, England) will focus on the role of public service broadcasting and media regulation in a digital age. Convergence, which has been talked about for so long, is finally upon us, as the… Continue Reading
Howard Rheingold has made the syllabus available for a course on digital journalism that he’ll be teaching at Stanford University. Students will be asked to blog and post or edit a wikipedia entry as part of the assessment – nice… Continue Reading
On March 11-12, 2006, Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society will host a symposium to explore the development and expansion of the metaphor of “cultural environmentalism” over the course of ten busy years for intellectual property law. We’ve… Continue Reading
International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Brisbane, Australia: 28-30 September 2006 Proposals by: 07 February 2006 (see conference website) The Internet works as an arena of convergence. Physically dispersed and marginalized people (re)find themselves online for… Continue Reading
28 June – 1 July 2006: University of Tartu, Estonia http://www.catacconference.org Conference theme: Neither Global Village nor Homogenizing Commodification: Diverse Cultural, Ethnic, Gender and Economic Environments The 1990s’ hopes for an “electronic global village” have largely been shunted aside by… Continue Reading
The talk was interesting. Putnam used all sorts of data as evidence that social capital is in decline. Church attendance is down, fewer people participate in Parent Teacher Organisations, few people go to public meetings. My argument is that most… Continue Reading
I’m sitting here at 2am reading and thinking about the work of Robert Putnam who is giving one of those inspirational internal lunchtime lectures at work tomorrow. Robert Putnam is a Harvard professor and author of Bowling Alone, a book… Continue Reading
I don’t much like camping, nor do I live anywhere near California, but if I did I’d consider attending Tag Camp (28 Oct – Palo Alto): Tag Camp is an open, welcoming event for geeks to camp out overnight, get… Continue Reading
It’s been announced that the 8th Infonortics Virtual Communities conference, originally scheduled for November 2005, has been cancelled. It’s a real shame. The conference has always drawn some pretty high caliber speakers from around the world and, most years at… Continue Reading
A preliminary programme for Cyberspace 2005 in Brno, Czech Republic (7-8 November 2005) is now available online. It looks like registration for the two day conference is 19 euros with accomodation available for an additional 17 euros per night. That… Continue Reading