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[ecrea] PhD summer school on the political economy of ICT / Social networking
Mon Jul 12 11:45:10 GMT 2010
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
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