[ICTs-and-Society] New info (registration, hotels, etc) about the Uppsala conference "Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media"

[Christian Fuchs]

Dear members of the ICTs and Society-network,

Here is some updated information about the forthcoming conference.

http://www.icts-and-society.net/events/uppsala2012/

Registration has now opened and a lot of new information (how to 
register, hotels, time plan, plenary session abstracts, etc) is now 
available.

The time plan of the conference:
http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/timeplan.pdf

Keynote talk-abstracts:
http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/abstracts.pdf

Important information (how to register, hotels & hostels, conference 
venue, how to get to Uppsala, where to go for lunch, cafés, Uppsala’s 
Spring Festival Valborg):
http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/info.pdf

Registration form
DOC: 
http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/registration.doc
RTF: 
http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/registration.rtf

Early registration and hotel booking is recommended because the end of 
April/start of May is a busy time in Uppsala because of the local Spring 
Festival.

Map of Uppsala: 
http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/map.pdf

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION for potential presentations is still possible until 
FEBRUARY 29th, 2012 (deadline, 23:59, Central European Time):
http://www.icts-and-society.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/CallforAbstracts.pdf
1) Registration: http://www.icts-and-society.net/register/
2) Abstract submission form: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/uploads/ASF.doc
3) Submit your completed abstract form to marisol.sandoval at uti.at
Welcome to Uppsala in spring!
Best wishes for 2012,
Christian Fuchs

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Time Plan

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012:
08:00-09:00 Registration (Ekonomikum, ground floor)
09:00-09:15 Conference opening
09:15-10:45, lecture hall 3 (hörsal 3): Opening plenary = plenary 
session 1 “Marx is Back: The Importance of Being Critical in Media and 
Communication Studies Today” (Vincent Mosco, Graham Murdock; chair: 
Christian Fuchs)
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-13:00 Parallel sessions 1
13:00-14:30 Break
14:30-16:30 Parallel sessions 2
16:30-16:45 Break
16:45-18:30, lecture hall 3 (hörsal 3): Plenary session 2 “Towards a 
Global Sustainable Information Society: Information Society and Digital 
Media Ethics Today” (Gunilla Bradley, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Charles Ess)
18:30 Wine reception

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012:
09:00-11:00 Parallel sessions 3
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:45, lecture hall 4 (hörsal 4) Plenary session 3 “Social Media, 
Democracy and Politics in the Information Society” (Christian 
Christensen, Peter Dahlgren)
12:45-14:30 Break
14:30-16:30 Parallel sessions 4
16:30-16:45 Break
16:45-18:15, lecture hall 4 (hörsal 4): Plenary session 4
“Karl.Marx at Internet.com(mercialism/munism/mons): Cybermarxism and the 
Critique of the Political Economy of the Internet and Social Media” 
(Nick Dyer-Witheford, Christian Fuchs)

Friday, May 4th, 2012:
09:00-10:30, lecture hall 4 (hörsal 4): Plenary session 5 “Work, Class, 
Gender and Proletarianization in the Age of Knowledge, the Internet and 
Communication” (Ursula Huws, Catherine McKercher)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-13:25 Parallel sessions 5
13:25-15:00 Break
15:00-16:30 Plenary session 6, lecture hall 4 (hörsal 4): “The Internet 
Today: Prosumer Participation and/or the Alienation & Exploitation of 
Play Labour (Playbour)?“ (Tobias Olsson, Trebor Scholz)
16:30-16:45 Break
16:45-18:15 Final plenary session, lecture hall 4 (hörsal 4): (Plenary 
session 7) “The Internet and Critical Theory Today” (Mark Andrejevic, 
Andrew Feenberg)
18:15-18:45 Final discussion
19:45 Conference dinner

-- 
Prof. Christian Fuchs
Chair in Media and Communication Studies
Department of Informatics and Media
Uppsala University
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10
Box 513
751 20 Uppsala
Sweden
christian.fuchs at im.uu.se
Tel +46 (0) 18 471 1019
http://fuchs.uti.at
http://www.im.uu.se
NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog
Editor of tripleC: http://www.triple-c.se
Chair of ESA RN18-Sociology of Communications and Media Research
ICTs and Society Network: http://www.icts-and-society.net