[ICTs-and-Society] Uppsala conference report

[Mathieu ONeil]

Hi everyone

I remember a similar debate a year ago when someone wrote a blog post about the Berlin conference, mentioning that OII was an early non-US centre (come to think of it it must have been an OII blog) and others made the same kind of arguments i.e. "there were others before". The response of the blog's author is mine also : what he-she/I was/am trying to say is that in terms of international "recognition" and putting across a strong institutional "brand", or "identity", fairly or not, it seems clear that OII somehow managed to become more _visible_ than other, equally worthwhile centres. My point was not about actual research, innovation, etc because as Ursula points out below, it's all connected anyway.


cheers


Mathieu

On 01/07/13, Ursula Huws  <ursulahuws at analyticaresearch.co.uk> wrote:
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> This seems to be a particularly pointless argument to be having. Scholars in a variety of disciplines have been studying the internet since the early 1990s. In many cases this built on earlier research on ‘socio-technical systems’, the ‘information society’ and numerous other designations. To bring these discussions together under the broad heading of ‘internet studies’ is useful. To pretend that in so doing anyone has invented a new field of study is fatuous nonsense. We all stand on the shoulders of our predecessors. A failure to recognise this is a sign, not of originality, but of blinkered vision (possibly combined with an over-inflated sense of self-importance).
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> From: discussion-bounces at lists.icts-and-society.net [mailto:discussion-bounces at lists.icts-and-society.net] On Behalf Of Z. Karvalics László
> Sent: 07 January 2013 13:30
> To: 'Niels Ole Finnemann'; 'Mathieu ONeil'; discussion at lists.icts-and-society.net
> Subject: Re: [ICTs-and-Society] Uppsala conference report
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> Dear Collegues,
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> Just for the record, as a part of the landscape:
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> Other dedicated, systematic social science focused research on Internet and society has been started around 2000 in research institutes, devoted to information society research in Tampere (2001) and Budapest (1998). 
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> Best
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> Laszlo Z. Karvalics
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> From: Niels Ole Finnemann [mailto:finneman at imv.au.dk <finneman at imv.au.dk>] 
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 1:17 PM
> To: Mathieu ONeil; discussion at lists.icts-and-society.net
> Subject: Re: [ICTs-and-Society] Uppsala conference report
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> Thanks a lot for these interesting accounts.
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> I have a very small correction however. In the opening it is said 
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> “Internet studies have historically developed in the United States. The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) was the first Internet research centre to be launched in Europe, in 2001.”
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> This is not quite correct as we initiated a Center for Internet Research in September 2000 at Aarhus University in order “to promote research on the social and cultural functions and meanings of the internet”.
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> Prior to that we had a series of conferences on internet studies.
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> The center still exist and you can an overview of its history and activities at http://cfi.au.dk/ - for the early history: http://cfi.au.dk/news/2000/
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> Of course the OII have been much more influential, but anyway.
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> Best regards
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> Niels Ole Finnemann
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> Fra: discussion-bounces at lists.icts-and-society.net [mailto:discussion-bounces at lists.icts-and-society.net <discussion-bounces at lists.icts-and-society.net>] På vegne af Mathieu ONeil
> Sendt: 7. januar 2013 12:09
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> Hi everyone
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> In case you missed it, here is another account of the conference, recently published in InMedia:
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> Mathieu O'Neil, "Internet Studies in Europe. Symposium on Internet and Society, 25-28 October 2011, Humboldt University, Berlin; ICTs and Society Conference, 2-4 May 2012, Uppsala University, Uppsala".
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> http://inmedia.revues.org/489#article-489
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> cheers
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> Mathieu
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> On 01/07/13, Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs at uti.at> wrote:
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> Dear colleagues,
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> Please find below a link to a report on the Uppsala ICTs & Society conference.
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> Best, Christian
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> Fuchs, Christian. 2012. Conference Report: The 4th ICTs and Society Conference: Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society. Nordicom Information 34 (3-4): 89-99.
> http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/NI.pdf
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