[ecrea] Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, Digital Asylum-seekers: The Clash of Cultures

> 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.
>
>
> ***
>
> Lucian Branea
>
> Executive Secretary, Epsilon III Association - Bucharest, Romania
>
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