[ecrea] Announcement of PhD summer school 2014 on Internet and new media

PhD summer school on Political Economy of ICT 2014

Topic of this year: Internet and new media - institutions and innovation 
systems

Organized by Center for Communication, Media and Information 
technologies (CMI), Aalborg University, Denmark



Time: 19 -24 August 2014

Venue: Skagen, Denmark



Lecturers:



William Melody, Guest Professor, Aalborg University

Benkt Åke Lundvall, Professor, Aalborg University

Dwayne Winseck, Professor, Carleton University

Knud Erik Skouby, Professor, Aalborg University

Anders Henten, Professor, Aalborg University

Reza Tadayoni, Associate Professor, Aalborg University

Deadline for registration: 15 March 2014

Further information and registration: 
http://phdsummerschool.nordict.aau.dk/index.html

The topic of the 2014 PhD summer school is concerned with Internet and 
new media. Focus is on the reconfigurations of the ICT field connected 
with the developments of convergence of the IT area, telecoms, and the 
mass media. At a technical level as well as at a business and market 
level, IT, telecoms, and media have increasingly been converging during 
the past decades based technologically on digitization, in a broad 
sense, and on Internet, more specifically. However, we are not 
witnessing a convergence on 'equal terms' and in the last decade, it has 
become still clearer that IT is developing into being the dominant 
business area in this convergence.

The discussions in the course will be related to technology developments 
and the development of institutions and markets from political, economic 
as well as social perspectives. Mobile application markets are presently 
dominated by IT companies, first and foremost Apple and Google, due to 
their competences in software and user interfaces as well as timely 
introduction of proper business models. One of the questions raised at 
the summer school is the extent to which traditional linear broadcast 
will be able to innovate and adapt to the changing environment.

A central topic at the summer school will be the geo-political aspects 
of these ICT developments as a consequence of the dominance of the US in 
the IT field. National and regional innovation systems will be discussed 
in order to examine how technology and market developments can be 
influenced politically. The theoretical basis of the course will be 
taken from the literature on innovation theory, institutional theory, 
political economy, and theories on business strategies.

Topics discussed at the summer school include:

    * Political economy of ICTs
    * Institutional analysis
    * Future Internet technologies
    * Future of broadcast
    * Mobile communications
    * The political economy of standardization
    * Hegemonic relations in converging media
    * Trends in regulations of converging media
    * New media business models

Contact:

Reza Tadayoni: (reza /at/ cmi.aau.dk)

Anders Henten: (henten /at/ cmi.aau.dk)





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