September 21, 2005
The Third Diniacopoulos Lecture: Professor John Kean
CONCORDIA CENTRE FOR BROADCASTING STUDIES/CENTRE D’ÉTUDES EN RADIO-TÉLÉVISION
The Third Diniacopoulos Lecture:
Professor John Keane - Journalism and Democracy Across Borders
Samuel Bronfman House, 1590 Dr Penfield,
Friday, October 14th, 2005, 1:30 pm, All are welcomed, Admission Free
Thank you,
Concordia Centre for Broadcasting Studies
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September 17, 2005
McGill Communication Policy Discussion Group
McGill Communication Policy Discussion Group
This is a call for graduate students interested in matters of policy to meet once a month at Thomson House at McGill (3650 McTavish) to discuss significant issues that might not otherwise be covered by a course syllabus.
While under the auspices of the Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and
Communications and based out of the McGill Department of Art History and Communication Studies, this student-run activity is open to all graduate students and interested academics in the Montreal area.
The plan is to choose a different area of focus each month, selected by a group member who will then act as chair for the session. Topics may be Canadian or international in scope. As research assistant to the Beaverbrook Chair, I will act as organizer and main contact. Chairs will be selected in a rotating order. Short readings may be selected and posted to group members in advance of the meeting; however, keep in mind that all have their own readings to do, therefore, selected texts should be relatively brief. We may try to book in a speaker or two.
The first session is booked for Monday, October 3rd at 5:30 on the third floor of Thomson House. The room has been booked for two hours and the meetings will happen the first Monday of every month. Barring any voices of protest, I will chair the first session. My early choice for topic is the CRTC's recent satellite radio decision. What were the alternatives? What are the implications? Should the decision be sent back to the CRTC? I also believe the recent lockout of CBC employees and the greater implications for public broadcasting may be worth pursuing.
I recognize other pertinent topics (ie CHOI decision.) are also timely but I'm not sure we can cover all of them.
If you are interested, please get back to me to me at this address or the one at the bottom of the page. I'll be in touch with all who respond.
Thanks.
Greg Taylor
gregory-taylor@sympatico.ca
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September 13, 2005
Lost in Space? McGill Univ, Sept 13 2005
John A. Hall
Dean of the Faculty of Arts
McGill University
cordially invites you to a
P a n e l D i s c u s s i o n
to inaugurate the
Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media & Communications
“Lost in Space? Steering the Media in the Age of Globalization”
Tuesday, 13th September 2005
6:30 p.m. Panel Discussion
8:00 p.m. Reception
Faculty Club, Ballroom
3450 McTavish Street
Montreal, QC
Moderator: Peter Grant, Media lawyer, McCarthy Tetrault
Panellists: Marc Raboy, Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media & Communications
Charles Dalfen, Chairman, CRTC
Robert Rabinovitch, President, CBC
Lawson Hunter, Executive Vice President & Chief Corporate Officer, Bell Canada Enterprises
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April 08, 2005
*Journée de réflexion sur la démocratie en ligne, les enjeux pour la
*Journée de réflexion sur la démocratie en ligne, les enjeux pour la population*
Le 28 avril 2005 de 9h00 à 16h30
Centre St-Pierre
1212 rue Panet, salle 100, à Montréal
Montréal, le 7 avril 2005 - Le 28 avril prochain, Communautique, en collaboration avec le Comité d'étude sur la démocratie en ligne (CÉDEL),vous invite à une journée de réflexion sur le thème de la démocratie en ligne et les enjeux pour la population.
Cette journée de réflexion vise à approfondir certains enjeux liés au développement d'une démocratie en ligne au Québec et ses impacts sur la population, notamment les populations défavorisées et à risque d'exclusion. Cette rencontre fait suite à la Journée de réflexion sur le gouvernement en ligne organisée le 14 octobre dernier et qui avait réuni plus de 80 personnes.
Cette nouvelle rencontre contribuera à une réflexion collective en vue d'apporter un éclairage sur certains des enjeux de la démocratie en ligne afin de contribuer à nous outiller pour participer de façon critique et proactive par des propositions d'action entourant l' développement de la démocratie en ligne. Ainsi, nous souhaitons que cette activité s'inscrive comme une premier échelon en vue d'établir une base solide pour le développement des actions collectives de grande envergure dans notre société concernant nos rapports aux technologies et nos rapports avec les principaux problèmes sociaux.
Cette rencontre nous permettra d'aborder, entre autres, les droits fondamentaux de l'information, l'usage collaboratif des technologies, les groupes de femmes et la société de l'information, l'accessibilisation du web, les logiciels libres et l'appropriation collective des réseaux de communication.
Nous souhaitons vous retrouver nombreux le 28 avril pour poursuivre ces débats citoyens.
*Monique Chartrand
Directrice générale*
*Communautique
Pour vous** inscrire ou pour plus d'information,* consultez le site web de l'événement http://democratie.communautique.qc.ca ou communiquez avec Ariane Pelletier par téléphone au 514 948-6644 ou 1 877 948-6644 poste228 ou 222 ou par courriel à info@communautique.qc.ca
*Les membres du Comité d'étude sur la démocratie en ligne :*
Alain Ambrosi, directeur général du Carrefour mondial de l'Internet citoyen
Denis Boudreau, président de W3Québec
Michel Cartier, professeur, Département des communications, UQAM
Monique Chartrand, directrice générale, Communautique
Manuel Cisneros, responsable du dossier des nouvelles technologies de
l'Institut de coopération pour l'éducation des adultes (ICÉA)
Vincent François, de W3Québec
Charles Gagnon, chargé de projets, Communautique
Hugo Gervais, responsable informatique, Communautique
Jean-Claude Guédon, professeur titulaire, Faculté des arts et des
sciences, Littérature comparée, Université de Montréal
Katherine Macnaughton-Osler, agente de développement pour les projets
Internet au féminin du Centre de documentation sur l'éducation des
adultes et la condition féminine (CDEACF)
Catherine Roy, vice-présidente de W3Québec et consultante en
accessibilité des technologies
Christian Vaillant, animateur au Centre de lecture et d'écriture le CLÉ
de Montréal
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April 06, 2005
Revised Symposium Sked
Attached is the revised symp sked
please send any title changes or corrections to name to me BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON as we want to do a fini on this and distribute accordingly
leslie
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Symposium....tech notes..
...there is an Internet connection (located next to the podium, under
all the light switches for the room, and not by the controls for the
data projector on the opposite side of the room.) As well as the data
projector, the room has a combo dvd/vcr player, slide projectors and an
overhead. Let me know if there is any other equipment you might need.
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April 04, 2005
Mosco Lecture April 14, 1-2:30
The Montreal Graduate Symposium on New Media, Internet Studies
and Global Governance
April 14 & 15, 2005
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
ARTS W215
Sponsors:
Joint Ph.D. Program in Communication,
Concordia University, UQAM, Université de Montréal
Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications, McGill University
Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
Thur April 14
13:00-14:30 Keynote address
Dr. Vincent Mosco. Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society, Queen’s University
“Science, Myth and Mob Rule: Beyond the Digital Sublime”
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ACC-CCA Schedule
I am pleased to inform you that the draft conference schedule for the 2005 ACC-CCA Conference (Association canadienne de communication / Canadian Communication Association) is now online in pdf format here .
Many many thanks to local chair Sandy Smeltzer and french language coordinator Philippe Ross for their tireless work.
Leslie Shade
President, Canadian Communication Association
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February 20, 2005
AoIR 6.0
Hey! Don't forget the extended deadline for AoIR proposals is tomorrow, Monday the 21st. ("Nathan, did you forget?" "Well, yes.")
See the site web: http://conferences.aoir.org/index.php?cf=3
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February 17, 2005
The Digital Divide: Access to the Internet-Privilege or Right?
MONTREAL/February 17, 2005 – Students from Concordia University’s School of Community & Public Affairs (SCPA) are presenting a panel discussion on the impact of the internet in today’s society. The topic will be The Digital Divide: Access to the Internet. Privilege or a Right? It will take place on March 1, 2005 from 6 – 8 pm at 2149 Mackay, Montreal, Quebec. The panel will include representatives from Industry Canada, Statistics Canada, Communautiques, and L’Avenue who will discuss their views and engage in a discussion with the audience during the question and answer period.
--Robert Delorme, Industry Canada
--Yvon Ganon- L'@venue
--Catherine Roy, Communautique
--George Sciadas, Statistics Canada
The evening’s main focus will be the ‘digital divide’ that exists in society and how access or lack thereof affects daily life. As the internet has become a forum for politics, commerce and entertainment that affects every sphere of life, its effects should be debated and better understood. An illustration of the power of this medium is the central role the internet has played in the recent tragedy in Southeast Asia.
Values of social and economic justice, equity, participatory citizenship and democracy, as well as cultural pluralism are explored and fostered at the SCPA, which has been a catalyst of public policy discussion and debate for the past 25 years.
The debate will be followed by a question and answer period.
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January 27, 2005
The right to communicate: for a democratic information society
Le Carrefour Mondial de l'Internet Citoyen (CMIC) en collaboration avec l'Association Mondiale des Radiodiffuseurs Communautaires (AMARC) et la chaire Beaverbrook en éthique, média et communication de l'Université McGill
Le Droit à Communiquer: pour une société de l'information démocratique
le mercredi 9 février à 19 h au Centre Saint-Pierre
Au Québec et au Canada comme partout dans le monde nous assistons à une prise de conscience grandissante de la centralité des droits de l’information et de la communication dans le fonctionnement démocratique de nos sociétés. Partout des groupes de citoyens commencent à se mobiliser sur différents fronts : défendre et promouvoir la diversité culturelle, garantir la protection de la vie privée contre les intrusions de l’État et des entreprises, maintenir l’indépendance et une saine concurrence des médias, promouvoir les logiciels libres, garantir une gouvernance démocratique de l'Internet, créer enfin les conditions d’une véritable participation citoyenne à la-dite « société de l’information » .
Le dénominateur commun de ces différents fronts de lutte revient à défendre le principe d’un droit fondamental à communiquer.
L'année 2005 est une année charnière dans ce débat puisque l'Unesco devra promulguer une convention sur la diversité culturelle et que l'ONU conclura la deuxième phase de son Sommet Mondial sur la Société de l'information (SMSI). Il n'est donc pas surprenant que dans les jours qui viennent toutes ces thématiques soient débattues au Forum Social Mondial de Porto Alegre en présence des plus grands experts de la société civile.
La conférence du 9 février aura comme orateur principal Sean O Siochru, l'un des initiateurs de la « Campagne pour le Droit à Communiquer » (CRIS). Sean nous parlera de la convention sur la diversité culturelle de l'Unesco et de la campagne CRIS (www.crisinfo.org).*
Le débat sera introduit par de courtes interventions de Martine Paulet (CMIC) sur les résultats du Forum sur la Communication de Porto Alegre Normand Landry (UdeM) sur les enjeux du SMSI.
Nous vous convions à braver le froid et venir nombreux pour vous réchauffer dans l'ardeur du débat sur le droit à communiquer
Centre Saint-Pierre
1212, rue Panet, Montréal
(Metro Beaudry)
*NB : La conférence de Sean O’ Siochru se déroulera en anglais et fera l’objet d’une traduction consécutive en français
Information : Sophie Toupin au (514) 448 1444 ou à assist @ globalcn.org
The World Forum on Community Networking in collaboration with the World Association of Community Radiobroadcasters (AMARC) and the Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications of McGill University
The right to communicate: for a democratic information society
Wednesday, February 9th, at 7:00 PM, Centre Saint-Pierre
In Quebec and Canada as everywhere in the world, there is a growing awareness of the centrality of information and communication rights in the democratic functioning of our societies. Groups of citizens everywhere are starting to mobilize on different fronts: to defend and promote cultural diversity, to guarantee the protection of private life against the intrusions of the State and companies, to maintain the independence of the media and a healthy competition among them, to promote open source software, to guarantee democratic governance of the Internet, and finally to create the conditions for true citizen participation in the so-called "information society".
The common denominator of these various fronts is the need to defend the basic principle of the right to communicate.
2005 is an important year for this debate, since UNESCO expects to promulgate a Convention on cultural diversity and the UN will conclude the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). It is thus not surprising that in the coming days, all of these themes will be discussed at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in the presence of major civil society players.
The main speaker at the February 9 conference will be Sean O Siochru, one of the initiators of the campaign on "Communication Rights in the Information Society" (CRIS). Sean will speak to us about UNESCO's convention on cultural diversity and the CRIS campaign (www.crisinfo.org). *
The discussion will be introduced by short interventions by Martine Paulet (CMIC) on the results of the Forum on Information and Communication in Porto Alegre and Normand Landry (UdeM) on the stakes of the WSIS.
We invite you to face the cold and to come warm up in the heat of the debate on
the right to communicate
Centre Saint-Pierre
1212, rue Panet, Montreal
(Metro Beaudry)
*NB : Sean O Siochru's talk will be given in English with consecutive French translation.
For more information contact: Sophie Toupin: (514) 448 1444 or assist@globalcn.org
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January 26, 2005
CFP: IAMCR Communication Policy & Technology section Taipei, 26-28 July 2005
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - IAMCR Communication Policy & Technology section
Taipei, 26-28 July 2005
The Communication Policy & Technology section (CP&T) of the
International Association for Media and Communication Research
(IAMCR) invites submissions of abstracts for papers to be presented
at the 2005 Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, 26-28 July 2005. The
Conference will be held under the theme: Media Panics: Freedom,
Control and Democracy in the age of Globalisation. More information
about the conference is available at: http://iamcr2005.shu.edu.tw/.
The CP&T Section's focus is on communication policy, with a keen
interest in socio-economic aspects of technological change. The
Section welcomes research that bridges between theory and practice,
theoretical and empirical studies, by offering scientific reflection
as well as guidelines for political action. The CP&T Section does not
adhere to any single philosophical or theoretical school but
encourages research that is critical and counter-intuitive. For the
Taiwan conference, we plan to hold sessions on:
Emerging ICTs and user empowerment
Peer-to-peer exchange, blogging, wiki, smart mobs, social software,
location-based services, are emerging ICT applications that seem to
allow the user to adopt an active role in 'configuring' and
'domesticating' technology. However, all technological change is
embedded in, and constrained by the social context of everyday life
and work. The question therefore remains to what extent these new
applications really enable users to participate in political,
economic and cultural life.
Internet governance: who rules?
The question of Internet governance is high up on many agendas.
Governments are discussing how to deal with unwanted content on the
web, whereas market players are becoming increasingly creative in
competing for the control of the Internet. The Section welcomes
contributions that address the question who controls the Internet,
why and with what effects.
The digital media in Asia: the 'geo'-factor
Papers for this session are to be situated in Asia and have either a
regional, national or local focus. They highlight geo-political,
geo-economical or geo-cultural factors as possible explanations for
the evolution of digital information and communication systems.
Papers that discuss Asian information and communication systems in
relation with other continents are also welcomed.
Digital Divide
Digital divide being an indication of unequal access and use of ICT
is provoked by factors of economic, socio-political, educational,
gender, and cultural nature. In different national contexts digital
divide results in inequality, media illiteracy and decreased
communication competence. Papers for the joint session of the CP&T
and Working Group on Digital Divide, convened by Elena Vartanova, are
invited to discuss new models of national and global communication
policy to overcome the digital divide with a special focus on the
role of various social agents such as states, NGOs, content and
access providers and users.
Criteria for selection of abstracts
The CP&T welcomes abstracts from the global research community.
Younger researchers from all regions are especially encouraged to
submit abstracts for evaluation. The CP&T has a tradition for keeping
high academic standards. In evaluating abstracts, we look at criteria
such as:
1.The scientific or policy relevance of the research problem
2.The formulation of the research question
3.The clarity of the objective of the paper
4.The consistency of the proposed argument
5.The theories and/or methodologies used
6.The nature of the empirical evidence presented.
Abstracts may be rejected on the basis that they do not meet these
criteria or that the information provided is of insufficient quality.
Abstracts of about 500 words should be submitted by 1 February 2005
to Tanja Storsul (tanja.storsul@media.uio.no). All prospective
presenters will be advised by 1 April 2005 of the outcome of their
applications. The full text of accepted papers would be due for
submission no later than 1 June 2005.
Joint Heads: Hopeton S. Dunn & Pascal Verhoest
Deputy Heads: Jo Pierson & Tanja Storsul
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Call for Papers Participatory Communication Research Section
International Association for Media and Communication Research
(IAMCR) 2005, Taipei, Taiwan, July 26 - 28, 2004
The Participatory Communication Research Section (PCR) invites submissions
for its sessions at the IAMCR Conference in Taipei. The work that is
presented in the Participatory Communication Research Section is not based
on any specific definition of participation. Rather, participation is a
term used to refer to a number of social and planning processes occurring
in many different places and in many different contexts. The Section
addresses issues related to communication between community members and
other stakeholders that are engaged in processes of social change. The
sessions are meant to work toward theoretical and methodological
clarification. Therefore, both papers and statements discussing theoretical
or methodological perspectives and/or documenting specific case studies are
welcomed.
Topics cover a wide variety of issues that relate to research in relation
to processes of communication that incorporate participation in an
intrinsic way. This includes subjects and processes of democratisation,
communication and information rights, ICTs for sustainable development,
health communication, environmental communication, agricultural extension
services, folk media and social movements, communication planning
activities and interventions, national and cultural identities, community
studies and the relationship between participation, empowerment and gender,
community radio and participatory video production, non-formal
participatory forms of education, participatory rapid appraisals,
participatory action research, and so on.
Joint sessions with other relevant sections and working groups can be
organised. Please do not submit your abstract to several sections and
groups.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts (500 words) is February 15,
2005. You will be informed whether or not your abstract is accepted by
April 1, 2005. The deadline of full papers is June 1, 2005.
Please send your abstract to:
Ullamaija Kivikuru, University of HelsinkiSSKH/Swedish School of Social
ScienceP.O.Box 16, 00014 Helsinki, FinlandEml.
Ullamaija.Kivikuru@helsinki.fi
and
Rico Lie, Wageningen UniversityDepartment of Communication and Innovation
StudiesHollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, The NetherlandsEml.
Rico.Lie@wur.nl
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New Online Community of Practice and E-Conference ~~
Public Sector Webcasting and Multimedia
~~ New Online Community of Practice and E-Conference ~~
Sign up here: http://dowire.org/webcasting
Join our new online exchange dedicated to sharing experiences, ideas,
and "how-to" knowledge among those leading the way (or catching up) with
public sector webcasting. It is sponsored by the UK Local E-democracy
National Project which is funded by the UK Office of the Deputy Prime
Minister.
To join this online community, complete the short registration form
available from http://dowire.org/webcasting . The community will start
with a private e-mail list and e-conference then build shared knowledge
via web tools.
Membership is free. It is open to staff in public sector organizations
including:
- Governments - Local, state, national, international
- Universities and schools
- Government-funded media
- Inter-governmental organizations and other public sector institutions
- Webcasting and multimedia service providers
This is a global forum for all levels of government.
Initial Activities:
- Online Conference - We are planning a one week online-only Webcasting
E-Conference in early 2005. The community of practice will have its
official "Grand Opening" with this conference. Initial members will
provide input into the e- conference.
- Enhanced Webcasting Specification - We seek your input and ideas on
how to cost-effectively develop or make tools available that make
webcasting in the public sector a more democratizing and compelling
experience. See the site now.
- Webcasting Knowledge Exchange - Special web pages with annotated links
to help public sector practitioners get started or improve their
webcasting activities.
Please pass this invitation on to anyone you know who works with
webcasting or multimedia in the public sector.
If you have any questions visit the web site or e-mail our outreach team
at: wc@dowire.org
P.S. If you are also interested in "e-democracy" in governance, see our
related best practices project: http://dowire.org/bp
Steven Clift - http://publicus.net - Reply to: clift@publicus.net
Join DoWire: http://dowire.org
E-Democracy: http://e-democracy.org
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World Forum on Information Society - Nov 14-16, 2005 - Tunis, Tunisia
Call for Papers and Invitation to Participate
World Forum on Information Society - Digital Divide, Global Development and the Information Society
November 14-16, 2005 - Tunis, Tunisia
Presented by the International Research Foundation for Development
This Forum is organized in view of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society with the intention of contributing to the Tunis Summit and its Preparatory Process
The International Research Foundation for Development is organizing the second phase of its World Forum on Information Society to be held in Tunis in November 2005 in view of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society - November 16-18, 2005.
IRFD will also host an online virtual conference in association with and prior to the World Forum in Tunisia.
We would like to invite all stakeholders to examine the relevant issues and considerations pertaining to the information revolution and knowledge society in a comprehensive and scientific manner with the goal of finding solutions, sharing best practices and experiences, and launching new action programs.
IRFD World Forum on Information Society
Digital Divide, Global Development and the Information Society
Phase Two: In view of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society
November 14 16, 2005 at The Renaissance Tunis Hotel
Abstracts Deadline: March 31st, 2005
Full Paper Deadline: September 30th, 2005
Online Virtual Conference of the World Forum on Information Society
Abstract Deadline: March 31st, 2005. Registration Deadline March 31st, 2005
Business Forum and IT Industry Presentation
IRFD invites the business community and IT industry to present and showcase new products and services that have the capacity to enhance the objectives of the Information Society.
Session Themes of the World Forum
Knowledge Economy, Knowledge Management, and Information Society
Information Communication Technology, e-Commerce and Business Environment
The Role of ICT in Economic Growth, and Socio-Economic Development
Information Science and Technology: Scientific Innovation and Information Society
Transfer of Information Technology and Knowledge: Development and Underdevelopment
ICT for Small Island Developing States, Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries
Geographical Information System and Sustainable Information Society
Cities and Regions, and Community Empowerment in an Information Age
Information Society and e-Governance
Social Stratification and Digital Divide
Culture and Politics in an Information Age
Issues and the Role of Media in an Information Age
Digital Divide: Development Policies and Action
Digital Education, Distance Learning and Creation of Information Society
Financing Mechanism and International Cooperation for Information Society
Presentation of Case Studies: Best Practices and Experiences of ICT application for Development
The Role of ICT in women's participation in development
For further information on these events, please visit our website: http://www.irfd.org
Please circulate this message.
If you received this message in error, please accept our apologies.
The International Research Foundation for Development operates within the framework of its Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
IRFD is a registered non-profit organization under section 501(c)3 of the United States Internal Revenue Service
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Critical Approaches to Knowledge Work: A Symposium
Critical Approaches to Knowledge Work: A Symposium
Friday, March 4, 2005
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Post-Industrial Society - The Information Society - Empire -
Post-Fordism - Intellectual Labour - Knowledge Work - Virtual Work -
Immaterial Labour - Trade Unionism - Workplace Surveillance - Symbolic
Analysts - The Cybertariat - Information Workers - The Creative Class
For over half a century now economists, social theorists, activists, and popular writers have grappled with the changing nature of work and the mutating composition of those groups who perform it. This
symposium brings together some of the foremost contemporary theorists of labour in order to compare critical approaches to new forms of labour, knowledge worker surveillance and emergent forms of labour organizing.
Nick Dyer-Witheford is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in
High Technology Capitalism (1999). He is currently writing a book (with Greig de Peuter), tentatively entitled Games of Empire, on immaterial labour in the video game industries.
Ursula Huws is the director of the social and economic research consultancy Analytica, an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Employment Studies and Honorary Visiting Professor of International Labour Studies at the Working Lives Research Institute at London Metropolitan University. She is currently a visiting professor at the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University.She is the author of The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World (2003)
Heather Menzies is an Ottawa writer, teacher, and activist. She teaches \\\"Canada in the Global Village\\\" at Carleton and has published seven books about technology and social restructuring. In Whose Brave New World (1996) she describes the social consequences of workplace restructuring created by information technology.Her new book, No Time: Stress and the Crisis of Modern Life is due out in April.
Vincent Mosco is Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society, Queen's University, Canada. His most recent books are The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace (2004), Continental Order? Integrating North America for Cybercapitalism (edited with Dan Schiller, (2001) and The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and Renewal (1996).
For further information on this symposium, please contact Enda Brophy: 2eob@qlink.queensu.ca
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January 23, 2005
The Global Flow of Information: A Conference on Law, Culture and Political Economy"
The Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP), The Yale Journal of Law & Technology (YJoLT) and the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (IJCLP) are pleased to announce their second interdisciplinary writing competition and a call for papers in conjunction with The Global Flow of Information Conference taking place on April 1-3, 2005 at Yale Law School. We invite students, scholars, policy makers, activists and practitioners to submit papers for the writing competition and/or for publication by YJoLT/IJCLP.
Conference Description
Patterns of information flow are one of the most important factors shaping globalization. Today individuals, groups, countries, and international organizations are trying to promote and control the flow of different kinds of information across national borders - information ranging from intellectual property and scientific research to political discourse, brand names and cultural symbols. And digitally networked environments subject information to ever new methods of distribution and manipulation. Fights over information flow are going to help define who holds power in the global information economy.
The groundbreaking conference on Global Flows of Information, will explore these emerging patterns of information flow, and their political, economic, social, and cultural consequences. We will be looking at the following key questions in six different contexts: (1) governance; (2) economics; (3) culture; (4) politics; (5) science; (6) warfare:
* Can the flow of information across borders be controlled? If so, how?
* Whose interests are going to be affected by flows of information across borders?
* Who will be empowered and who will lose influence and authority?
* What role can or should law play in securing freedoms, rights, and democratic accountability as individuals, groups, and nations struggle over control of information flows?
* What lessons can we learn about how to regulate information flow from past experience with other kinds of flow across borders- for example, flows of goods, services, people, and capital?
For a full conference description, questions to be considered during the conference, list of speakers, schedule, and resources, please visit the Yale ISP web site (http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/GlobalFlow/writingcompetition.html).
Writing Competition
Submissions for the writing competition must be received by noon EST, February 15, 2005. The author of the best paper, as well as two runners-up will be invited to present their work at a panel during the conference. The author of the winning paper will receive coverage of his/her travel to and accommodations at Yale University for the conference. Selected papers will be announced by March 1st, 2005. The authors of the award-winning papers will automatically be invited to publish their work in special Fall 2005 volumes of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology (http://yjolt.org) and the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (http://www.ijclp.org) devoted to the conference topic.
Journal Publication
Submissions for publication must be received by noon EST, May 1st, 2005. The selection committee, composed of the editorial boards of YJoLT and IJCLP, will review and consider all submissions for publication in the special Fall Volume 2005 of the journals, including submissions for the writing competition. Authors will be notified of acceptance by June 1st, 2005. The journals reserve the right to decide which journal will publish which work, based on the journals' respective audiences and editorial expertise.
Submission Guidelines
All submissions should be written in English in .doc or .pdf format. They should conform to academic citation standards, be no longer than 25,000 words, and include an abstract of up to 250 words. Submissions should be e-mailed simultaneously to Simone Bonetti (simo.bonetti@tiscalinet.it) and Boris Rotenberg (boris_rotenberg@yahoo.it), lead editors IJCLP; as well as to Lawrence Cogswell (lawrence.cogswell@yale.edu), Editor-in-Chief, YJoLT. Inquiries may be addressed to any of the above.
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January 20, 2005
The Concealed, Ottawa ON March 4-5 2005
The Concealed: Anonymity, Identity, and the Prospect of Privacy, March 4-5, University of Ottawa Law School.
Do we have a right to speak anonymously?
Why do people claim to value privacy but act otherwise?
What are the constitutional implications of the compelled disclosure of identity?
What is the effect of imposing anonymity on women who enter the legal system as a result of sexual assault or other crimes of gendered violence?
Do we have the right to resist excessive surveillance?
These are some of the questions being investigated by a multidisciplinary team of researchers on a project entitled On the Identity Trail (www.anonequity.org). The team, along with faculty members from the Law and Technology Program at the University of Ottawa (www.commonlaw.uottawa.ca/tech),invites you to a two-day conference dedicated to investigating these and other privacy issues in our increasingly networked society.
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CCA/ACC, London Ont, June 2-4, 2005
Deadline January 31 2005: call in english can be found here et en. fr. ici .
Afin de marquer le 25e anniversaire de l'ACC, nous comptons faire de l'édition 2005 du colloque annuel un événement incontournable pour la communauté canadienne de communication. Ainsi, le colloque réunira des chercheurs/chercheuses et praticien(ne)s qui sont à la fine pointe de la pensée critique et la recherche scientifique dans le domaine. Nous sommes à mettre sur pied un ensemble de panels thématiques et de tables rondes spéciales, de même qu'un format de discussion novateur conçu pour favoriser l'interaction dans un climat convivial et encourager le mentorat d'étudiants de deuxième cycle.
Thèmes
L'édition 2005 du congrès de la Fédération des sciences humaines et sociales du Canada (FSHSC) a pour thème Les paradoxes de la citoyenneté : environnements, exclusions et équité. Vous êtes invité à soumettre une proposition s'inscrivant sous cette rubrique ou tout autre thème afférent au champ des communications.
Participation
Nous invitons chercheurs et praticiens à soumettre des propositions de communication. Afin de faire une présentation au congrès de London en juin prochain, vous devez être membre en règle de l'Association canadienne de communication et avoir acquitté les frais d'adhésion pour l'année en cours.
Nous sollicitons des propositions pour les types de communication suivants :
Panels ne comprenant pas plus de trois présentations, celles-ci étant liées par une thématique commune;
Présentations individuelles dont les propositions seront revues et regroupées en séances par les organisateurs du colloque de London;
Tables rondes portant sur des sujets d'intérêt pour la communauté;
Séances consultatives de maîtrise : ce nouveau format de discussion s'adresse aux étudiant(e)s de deuxième cycle dont les travaux de recherche (mémoire ou projet) sont soit complétés, soit à un niveau avancé de développement. Conçues pour favoriser le débat et le mentorat, les cinq séances seront présidées par un(e) professeur(e) et constitueront ainsi un forum savant et formatif pour les étudiant(e)s de deuxième cycle.
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AOIR 6.0 Conference
Association of Internet Researchers Conference 6.0 Internet Generations, Chicago, October 5-9.
The Internet has been a rapidly evolving phenomenon, so much so that we may talk about generations of the Internet. With everything moving faster in 'Internet time,' we have arguably spanned many technological Internet generations within a single human generation: from the birth of computing to the first online communications; from the beginnings of email to the enriched worlds of chat, virtual worlds and mobile text messaging; from the workplace to home and school; from optional to all-but-mandatory; and from mainframe to desktop to laptop to mobile devices. Abstract Deadline February 15 2005
We can also talk about contextual Internet generations, from the early pioneers who count themselves among those communicating online before the 1980s; to the early adopters of the 1980s in university and proprietary systems; to latecomers finding the need to adopt computing and technology use as part of their daily work; to the current and coming generations that will not know a time without a computer in the household, a mobile phone in their hand, and a lap- or palmtop and an MP3 player an essential part of their daily wear. This massive change in technologies, and in work and social practices suggests many avenues of interest for Internet research.
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Ready to Share: Fashion & The Ownership of Creativity
See the Ready to Share site.
On January 29, 2005, the Norman Lear Center will hold a landmark event on fashion and the ownership of creativity. Ready to Share will explore the fashion industry's enthusiastic embrace of sampling, appropriation and borrowed inspiration, core components of every creative process. Presented by the Lear Center's Creativity, Commerce & Culture project, and sponsored by The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising/FIDM, this groundbreaking conference will feature scholarly debate, fashion shows, multimedia presentations, the clash of perspectives and the cross-fertilization of ideas.
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