[ecrea] PhD summer school on Political Economy of ICT

PhD summer school 2013 on The Political Economy of ICT

Topic of year 2013 summer school: Internet, its institutions and 
technologies



Place: Skagen, Denmark

Dates: 20-25 August 2013

Organizer: Center for Communication, Media and Information technologies 
(CMI), Aalborg University, Denmark

Summer school website: http://phdsummerschool.nordict.aau.dk/



Speakers and supervisors:

· William H. Melody, Professor, CMI

· Robin Mansell, Professor, LSE

· Ramjee Prasad, Professor, AAU

· Knud Erik Skouby, Professor, CMI

· Anders Henten, Professor, CMI

· Reza Tadayoni, Associate Professor, CMI



The focus of the 2013 summer school is on ‘Internet, its institutions 
and technologies’. This includes discussions of technology developments, 
institutions, and governance structures of the Internet from political, 
economic as well as social perspectives. Furthermore, the summer school 
will give emphasis to the character of the ongoing convergences between 
the IT area, telecommunications, and the mass media. The Internet is the 
prime platform for such convergences, where presently the IT area seems 
increasingly to take precedence over telecommunications and the mass media.

The developments of the Internet and the implications of applications of 
the Internet for communications, the media, and the cultural industries 
will be seen in light of broader directions and forces of information 
society developments. The 2013 PhD summer school features Robin 
Mansell's book 'Imagining the Internet' and the discussions this book 
raises concerning the paradoxes of information and communications in 
present society.

The summer school will thus be concerned with the Internet and its 
institutions and technologies at three different levels: The Internet as 
such, interactions between Internet developments and other 
communication, media and cultural industries, and more general 
information society developments relating specifically to free access 
vs. intellectual property rights.

Topics discussed at the summer school include:

· Political economy of ICTs

· Institutional analysis

· Future Internet technologies

· Internet governance

· Free access vs. intellectual property rights

· The political economy of standardization

· Hegemonic relations in converging media

· Trends in regulations of converging media



The summer school lectures, group work and discussions will take place 
at Klitgården in Skagen (http://www.klitgaarden.dk/)

There is limited number of rooms available for the students at 
Klitgården. These will be reserved based on the first come first serve 
principal.

You can also find a hotel or hostel yourself and make the reservation.

For more information about the venue and accommodation please refer to 
the course web site: http://phdsummerschool.nordict.aau.dk/



center for Communication, Media and Information technologies (CMI)

Aalborg University- Copenhagen

Sydhavnsgade 17

DK-2450 Copenhagen SV Denmark

www.cmi.aau.dk

For more information please contact Reza Tadayoni (reza /at/ cmi.aau.dk) or 
Anders Henten (henten /at/ cmi.aau.dk)





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