[ecrea] PhD summer school on the political economy of ICT / Social networking

> Announcement of PhD summer
> school on
>  
> The Political Economy of Information and Communication Technologies
>  
> Topic of 2010: Social Networking
>  
> New deadline for registration: 1 August 2010
>  
> Lecturers:
> William Melody
> Charles Steinfield
> Ramjee Prasad
> Knud Erik Skouby
> Anders Henten
> Reza Tadayoni
>  
> 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/ 
> Program of summer school:
>
> http://phdsummerschool.nordict.aau.dk/program.html 
> 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,
> (henten /at/ cmi.aau.dk)
> Reza Tadayoni, (reza /at/ cmi.aau.dk) 
> CMI, Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University,
> Denmark