[ecrea] McLuhan Galaxy International Conference

> McLuhan Galaxy. Understanding Media, today. 
> Barcelona, May 23-25, 2011 IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due 
> to various requests, the deadline for extended 
> abstracts submission has been extended to 
> January 17th, 2011. Visit 
> http://www.mcluhangalaxy.net The International 
> Conference McLuhan Galaxy â??Understanding 
> Media, Todayâ??, Barcelona 2011, is going to 
> take place in Barcelona on May 23-25, 2011 to 
> celebrate the birth centenary of the Canadian 
> thinker Marshall McLuhan. The event is organised 
> by Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), 
> Universitat Oberta de Catalunya / Open 
> University of Catalonia and Faculty of 
> Communication, University Pompeu Fabra, with the 
> collaboration of CCCB-Lab, Centre of 
> Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. Structured 
> into thematic sessions, the conferences, 
> presentations and round tables will count on the 
> presence of international researchers such as 
> Manuel Castells, Eric McLuhan, Derrick de 
> Kerckhove, Robert K. Logan, Javier Echeverria, 
> Alejandro Piscitelli, Ursula Heise, Javier Díaz 
> Noci, Carlos A. Scolari and Bruce Powe, among 
> others.  Call for papers The McLuhan Galaxy 
> Conference invites the submission of extended 
> abstracts related to the conference themes (800 
> words ca / 2 pages). Authors of accepted 
> abstracts will be invited to submit full papers 
> between 5.000 and 6.000 words. There are 5 main 
> tracks: 1.      Mcluhan in the Global Village 
> (McLuhan, Torontoâ??s School, Media Ecology, 
> media laws, media studies, television, 
> broadcasting, McLuhanism, etc.) 2.    Education 
> beyond the book (school/media, digital natives, 
> digital literacy, the Gutenberg parentheses, 
> edupunk, invisible learning, reading devices, 
> etc.) 3.   Social media, networks and life 
> (self-organization, emergence, social media, 
> collaborative web, wikipedia, user generated 
> content, tagging, folksonomy, identity, privacy, 
> control, etc.) 4.    Extensions and sensorial 
> dimension (extensions, new sensorial paradigms, 
> human computer interaction, interfaces, new 
> screens, mobile media, ubiquitous computing, 
> data-visualization, art, wearable computing, 
> augmented reality, virtual reality, etc.) 
> 5.     The global big bang (economy, ecology, 
> management, wikileaks, wikinomics, the â??long 
> tailâ??, local, global, glocal dimensions, etc.) 
> More information in the official webpage of the 
> event: http://www.mcluhangalaxy.net

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