[ecrea] Digital Content Creation: Creativity, Competence, Critique

Digital Content Creation: Creativity, Competence, Critique
The second international DREAM conference
18-20 September 2008
University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
In knowledge-based societies, competence formation through
education is key, and the formative role played by digital
communication is widely acknowledged. However, one of the major
challenges today is the mismatch between the digital resources
nurtured by users in and outside of formal educational contexts. Not
least young peoples rapid take-up of social software such as weblogs
and wikis, online chat clients and virtual world applications serve to
challenge existing forms of communication for learning, since these
innovations allow and assume users own creation, sharing and editing
of content.
Conference goals
This conference will present and discuss the most advanced and
exciting research on digital content creation, its socio-cultural contexts
and educational consequences. A major aim of the conference is to
bring together an international forum of scholars from a range of
disciplines including media and ICT studies, education, psychology,
anthropology, sociology and cultural studies - and to promote dialogue
within and across research traditions. We also aim to develop dialogue
between researchers, educators and producers of new learning
resources.
Conference themes
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
" Digital content creation: creative processes and textual
reappropriations
" Competence formation through digital content creation: personal
voice or commercial coercion?
" Institutional ramifications of digital content creation for learning
" Studying digital content creation: the challenge of new
methodologies
Papers are encouraged from researchers with interests in any of these
specific themes as well as the general issues of the conference.
Submissions
If you would like to present a paper, please submit a 400 word
abstract with an indication of which of the above themes you will
address. Abstracts must include the title of your paper along with
author name(s), affiliation, and contact details (postal address,
telephone, fax and email address). Abstracts (format: pdf, doc, rtf)
should be submitted to (mail /at/ dream.dk)
After the conference, authors are invited to submit revised versions of
their papers from which contributions will be selected for a peerreviewed
volume focusing on the main themes of the conference.
Important dates
15 April 2008 deadline for submission of abstracts
1 June 2008 notification of authors
1 July 2008 deadline for early registration
1 August 2008 deadline for submission of final papers
Keynote speakers
Keynote speakers will include professor David Buckingham (London
Knowledge Lab, University of London), professor John Hartley
(Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology),
professor Angela McFarlane (Graduate School af Education,
University of Bristol), professor Roger Säljö (Department of
Education, University of Gothenburg), and professor Ellen Seiter
(School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California).
Pre-Conference: One-day ph.d. course
The research conference is preceded by an intensive ph.d. course 17
September 2008, offering a venue for young scholars within relevant
conference areas to meet with some of the main conference speakers
and to make project presentations and discussions.
Conference language
The conference language is English.
Stay informed
Please visit the conference website for full scientific and social
programme, registration form and keynote abstracts:
http://www.dreamconference.dk/
Please feel free to circulate this message as appropriate.
Apologies for crossposting.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
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Katholieke Universiteit Brussel - Catholic University of Brussels
Vrijheidslaan 17 - B-1081 Brussel - Belgium
&
Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis
Boulevard du Jardin Botanique 43  - B-1000 Brussel - Belgium
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ECREA's Second European Communication Conference
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http://www.ecrea2008barcelona.org/
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