Programme

Conference Chairs:
Meritxell Roca Sales (IN3) & Wolfgang Hofkirchner (ICT&S Center)

Tuesday, June 29
19:00 Reception and Welcome Drink
UOC Building, Rambla de Catalunya 6, Barcelona
Wednesday, June 30
Location: Meeting Room 1a, floor -1, IN3, Castelldefels
10:00 – 11:30 Welcome and Introduction
PhD Consortium Session I
Chair: Eduard Aibar & Alexander Banfield-Mumb
Respondent: Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
Students:
Marie Dufrasne
Jasmina Maric
Safiya Noble
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:15 PhD Consortium Session II
Chair: Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
Respondent: Eduard Aibar
Students: Filipe Manuel S. Bento
Camilo Cristancho Mantilla
Christina Neumayer
13:15 Lunch
14:45 – 16:15 PhD Consortium Session III
Chairs: Josep Llados & Marisol Sandoval
Respondent: László Karvalics
Students:
Suhain Muda
Sween Seebach
Ellen Strickland
16:15 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 PhD Consortium Session IV
Chairs: Lisa Nakamura & Celina Raffl
Respondent: Josep Llados
Students:
Matteo Cernison
Matthias Schafranek
Miriam Sweeney
18:00 – 18:30 Coffee Break
18:30 – 20:00 PhD Consortium Session V
Chairs: László Karvalics
Respondent: Lisa Nakamura
Students:
Peter Bujňák
Bence Kollanyi
Maria Luisa Malerba
21:30 Dinner (Barcelona)
Thursday, July 1
Location: Sala d’actes, floor -1, IN3, Castelldefels
10:00 Welcome Imma Tubella, President of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Keynote William Dutton (Oxford Internet Institute): The Impact of Internet Studies: Lessons from the World Internet Project
Coffee Break
11:00 – 13:00 Paper Session: Theorizing the Internet
Chair: José María Díaz & Matthias Schafranek
  • Stefano De Paoli & Vincenzo D’Andrea: Toward Trust as Result: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for the ‘Future of the Internet’
  • Jean-François Blanchette: Computing and Materiality: A Framework
  • Discussion
  • László Karvalics: Anti-Webster, or how did Frank Webster successfully soften up the information society discourse
  • P.H. Wong: A Methodological Reflection on Converging Technologies (or, Wherein the Empirical is in Information Ethics?)
  • Discussion
  • László Ropolyi: Shaping the third mode of human existence on the Internet
  • Rainer Zimmermann & Simon Wiedemann: Reconstructing the Glass Bead Game. On the Philosophy of Information.
13:00 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Round Table: Critical Information Studies and the Critical “I”: A Nascent Transdiscipline in Praxis
Convenor:
Sarah T. Roberts (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Participants:
Lisa Nakamura (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Jakob Svensson (Karlstad University)
Miriam Sweeney (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Safiya Umoja Noble (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Round Table: Identity Crisis? Being a Generalist or a Specialist in the Network Society
Convenors:
Maciej Kos (University of Michigan)
Matt Burton (University of Michigan)
Joanna Steele (University of Michigan)
Participants:
José María Díaz (Universidad de León)
Georgy Ishmaev (Chelyabinsk State University)
Mario Pérez-Montoro (Universitat de Barcelona)
Francisco Salto (Universidad de León)
18:00 – 18:30 Coffee Break
18:30 – 20:00 Open Session
21:30 Dinner (Barcelona)
Friday, July 2, 2010
Location: Sala d’actes, floor -1, IN3, Castelldefels
10:00 Keynote Juliet Webster (Work and Equality Research, London, UK): Doing Research, Doing Politics: ICT Research as a Form of Activism
11:00 – 13:00 Paper Session: Inequalities: Social, Economic, Political
Chairs: Juliet Webster & Rachel Palmen
  • Pieter Verdegem: Information Society Policies 2.0: A Critical Analysis of the Potential and Pitfalls of Social Computing/Informatics in the Light of E-Inclusion
  • C.S.H.N. Murthy: Media convergence and blogging in exposing corruption and fraud in India
  • Robert Bichler: Internet in China: Myths and Realities
  • Discussion
  • Lisa Nakamura: Illegal Workers in Virtual Worlds: Unfree Labor, Incivility, and the New Orientalism
  • Tomasz Drabowicz: Social Class and Digital Inequality in Usage Access to the Internet among Adolescents: A Comparative Study of 21 Countries
  • Sergio Godoy: Implicatons and Precisions about Digital Exclusion in the UK and Chie
13:00 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Workshop: PhD Programmes – Successes and Failures
Convenors:
Fernando Ramos (University of Aveiro)
Fernanda Ribeiro (University of Porto)
Participants:
Vincenzo D’Andrea (University of Trento)
Sergio Godoy-Etcheverry (Universidad Catolica de Chile)
Wolfgang Hofkirchner (University of Salzburg)
David Megías (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 Plenary Session and Closing Ceremony
Convenor: Christian Fuchs (University of Salzburg)
21:30 Dinner (Barcelona)

Saturday, July 3, 2010
Excursion, socializing, sight-seeing.

Comments:

We left enough time for coffee and lunch breaks to ensure that there will be enough possibilities for (informal) discussions and networking.