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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Looks very
interesting,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Steve</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Steve Walker, Senior Lecturer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Leeds Metropolitan University</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>School of Information Management</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Phone: (44) 113 283 7448</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> OII Events
[mailto:events@oii.ox.ac.uk]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Mon 30/1/06 15:51<BR><B>To:</B>
OII-Contacts@maillist.ox.ac.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B> OII News [2006.01.30]:
Information, Communication and New Media Studies: Good for
What?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Dear All<BR><BR>Please may we bring to your attention the
following forthcoming event:<BR>'Information, Communication and New Media
Studies: Good for What?'<BR><BR>Chairs:
William Dutton, Oxford Internet
Institute;<BR>
Craig Calhoun, President, Social
Science Research Council.<BR><BR>Panelists to include:<BR>- Vera Franz, OSI,
London<BR>- Alison Bernstein, Ford Foundation, New York<BR>- Sean O'Siochru,
NEXUS, Dublin<BR>- Karen Banks, Association of Progressive Communication,
London<BR>- Richard Allen, Cisco Systems<BR><BR>Date: 02 February 2006, 17:00 -
18:30<BR>Location: Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1
3JS<BR><BR>Attendance: This panel discussion is open to the public, but places
are<BR>strictly limited. If you are interested in attending please email your
name<BR>and affiliation, if any, to events@oii.ox.ac.uk. As places are so
limited<BR>they will be allocated on a first-come first-served
basis.<BR><BR>This event will be webcast and available to view on our website
at<BR><A href="http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/">http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/</A>
from Friday 3rd February 2006.<BR><BR>Abstract<BR>New media, such as the
Internet and other convergent information and<BR>communication technologies
(ICTs), are now widely used in ways that are<BR>reshaping political, economic,
cultural, legal, scientific, and other<BR>activities. The interrelated outcomes
in the public sphere of these diverse<BR>uses of the Internet and new media by
communities, individuals, and private<BR>and public organizations are leading to
wide-ranging societal<BR>transformations, both locally and globally. The
pervasive nature of this<BR>growing digital mediation and governance of social
life has stimulated<BR>rethinking of research practices, institutional
arrangements, and policies<BR>needed to provide better accounts and
understandings of such<BR>transformations.<BR><BR>Over the past decade, digital
convergence has been accompanied by a partial<BR>realignment of research around
the technologies themselves, most notably in<BR>the form of efforts to build
better-integrated, more-fluid models of<BR>engagement across social and
technical disciplinary boundaries. No<BR>established field, dominant paradigm or
appropriate institutional<BR>restructuring has emerged to take advantage of the
new multidisciplinary<BR>research opportunities. However, distinctive approaches
and themes for<BR>research on the social dimensions of new media and related
ICTs-such as the<BR>relationship between ICTs, public life, media, and
governance-have been<BR>created within communication and media fields,
information studies, social<BR>informatics, computer science, law, the
humanities, and the core social<BR>sciences. Some of these new configurations
have acquired stability within or<BR>between fields; in other cases, they are
characterized mostly by isolated<BR>experiments. <BR><BR>This is an open
session designed to stimulate and inform an invited workshop<BR>to be held on
3-4 February. Panelists in policy, practice and advocacy<BR>fields will provide
brief perspectives on the intersection between research<BR>and more applied
agendas. It is an opportunity to reflect on what<BR>constituencies outside the
research field expect from information,<BR>communication and media studies. Can
it meet these expectations? Under what<BR>conditions?<BR><BR>For further
information on all OII events, please refer to our website
at<BR>www.oii.ox.ac.uk.<BR><BR>Kind regards<BR>The Events Team<BR><BR>Oxford
Internet Institute<BR>1 St Giles<BR>University of Oxford<BR>Oxford<BR>OX1
3JS<BR><BR>Tel: +44 (0)1865 287209<BR>Fax: +44 (0)1865
287211<BR><BR>www.oii.ox.ac.uk<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT></P></DIV>
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