Announcement of PhD summer school on
The Political Economy of Information and Communication Technologies
Dates: 22-27 August 2010
Place: Skagen, Denmark
Organizer: Center for Communication, Media and
Information technologies (CMI), Aalborg University, Denmark
Information and registration:
<http://phdsummerschool.nordict.aau.dk/>http://phdsummerschool.nordict.aau.dk/
The topic of the 2010 PhD summer school is Social Networking
The PhD summer school on the political economy
information and communication technologies
focuses on social networking in 2010.
Internet-based communities have existed for more
than 20 years, but during the past few years,
social networking has become widespread.
Worldwide, people connect via the web and extend
their social communities beyond what could ever
have been realized without the web.
Till now, users of web-based social networking
and communities have mainly used traditional
computers with large screens. For many users the
concept of social networking means always-on,
which sets focus on the trend of being able to
do social networking also on smart phones and
other smaller screens. The transition from the
big screen to the small screen in relation to
social networking and communities will be one of
the issues examined at the PhD summer school.
The summer school will concentrate on the
interrelationships between the technological,
economic, political, and cultural aspects of social networking.
Issues that will be dealt with at the summer school include:
· User generated content and applications
· Mobility and social networks
· Privacy and trust in social networks
· Standards and technical platforms
· New services and applications for
mobile devices facilitating social networks
· Business models for social networks
· Regulatory aspects of social networks
The summer school is organized in cooperation
with CTIF (Centre for TeleInFrastructure), the
CAMMP project (Converged Advanced Mobile Media
Platform), and is part of the activities of the
Mobile and Wireless Cluster (KMT) located at CMI.
Aim and objectives of the summer school
The aim of the course is to refine the level of
knowledge of the participating Ph.D. students on
the economic and political structures and
mechanisms affecting technology development in
the information and communication technology
(ICT) area. It also considers the impact of
implementation and application of ICTs on the
economy and broader social developments. It is a
course in the political economy of technology
development with a disciplinary point of
departure in economics and social science. This
theme is explored at a company (micro), sectoral
(meso) and/or societal (macro) level. This will
depend on the specific topics chosen in the
course. The course targets Ph.D. students with a
technology background combined with an economics
and/or social science approach and students with
an economics and /or social science background
focusing on technology development.
Best regards
Anders Henten, <mailto:(henten /at/ cmi.aau.dk)>(henten /at/ cmi.aau.dk)
Reza Tadayoni, <mailto:(reza /at/ cmi.aau.dk)>(reza /at/ cmi.aau.dk)
CMI, Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark
