Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, Digital
Asylum-seekers: The Clash of Cultures
22-24 June 2010 - Sibiu, Romania
an international conference hosted by a
consortium of eight institutions, including
University of Bucharest, University of Ankara,
Free University Brussels, and Polytechnical
Institute of Porto - running DIGITAS, a
Grundtvig Multilateral Partnership (2008 ? 2010)
Digital media and the internet have transformed
the way young people learn, play, socialize, and
even participate in civic life. Children today
have access to media, be it through their
computers, mobile phones or mp3 players, much
more readily than their parents ever could.
Consequently, digital technologies facilitate
young people's creation of media environments
and associated literacy practices that their
parents find particularly difficult to perceive
or understand, and from which they are effectively excluded.
Such media environments and their respective
specific literacy practices are fundamental for
mapping a ?digital divide? operating along
inter-generational lines. For some time,
researchers and practitioners alike have shown
that ?ICT training? of (older) adults, focusing
exclusively on the use of various ICT tools,
both hardware and software, is ultimately
pointless in the absence of an adequate cultural
orientation to such new territories ? worth
exploring, exotic as they may seem, but also fraught with unimaginable dangers.
We therefore invite contributions from educators
and researchers from all scientific areas that
describe, document, and analyse various forms of
engagement, in inter-generational contexts and
family settings, of youth and (older) adults
with digital/online environments and how they
relate to various forms of social and cultural
capital. We are also looking forward to accounts
of challenges and obstacles which encourage or
inhibit engagement to various digital/online
environments and their specific cultures, as
well as of successful intervention strategies
and pedagogical processes enabling (older)
adults to exploit the opportunities for
learning, playing, socializing, and participating supported by digital media.
We are looking forward to contributions
submitted to one of the following sections:
* Learning in a digital world
* Playing in a digital world
* Socializing in a digital world
* Participating in a digital world
Abstracts should be in English only and should
contain a clear outline of the argument, the
theoretical framework, and where applicable
methodology and results. The preferred length of
the individual abstracts is a maximum of 500
words. Panel proposals should consist of at
least four individual contributions combining a
panel abstract with individual abstracts, each
abstract not longer than 250 words.
Deadline for titles and abstracts is 19 March
2010. Please register your submission at
<http://tiny.cc/DIGITAS_regform>http://tiny.cc/DIGITAS_regform.
Your questions are welcome at digitas.conference [at] gmail.com.
The abstract proceedings will be circulated
prior to the conference and published online,
while the full proceedings will be later
published (with ISBN) online. A selection of
papers will be considered for publication in a printed (with ISBN) version.
Conference web page, including organizational
details and suggestions for funding your
participation to the conference can be found
at<http://tiny.cc/DIGITAS_regform>http://tiny.cc/DIGITAS_conference.
Practical information
Date: 22-24 June 2010
Location: Ibis Hotel, Sibiu, Romania
Organizers: a consortium of eight European
universities and training organisations
developing the LLP / Grundtvig Multilateral Project DIGITAS (2008-2010)
Conference language: English
Enrolment fee: 300 EUR (3 days) or 100 EUR (one
day only) - with a 50% discount for students
Accommodation at IBIS Hotel, Sibiu: see options on registration form
Registration form:
<http://tiny.cc/DIGITAS_regform>http://tiny.cc/DIGITAS_regform
Website: <http://tiny.cc/DIGITAS_conference>http://tiny.cc/DIGITAS_conference
E-mail: digitas.conference [at] gmail.com
Abstract and titles submissions deadline: 19 March 2010
Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2010
Registration deadline: 20 April 2010
Deadline for submission of full papers (for
online and/or printed publication): 23 July 2010
Feel free to circulate this call to colleagues
or any research networks that may be interested in submitting a proposal.
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Lucian Branea
Executive Secretary, Epsilon III Association - Bucharest, Romania
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