<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> 3rd ICTs and Society-Network-Meeting Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain June 29-July 2, 2010 <a href="http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/" title="http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/">http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/</a> Registration: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/registration/">http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/registration/</a> PhD Consortium: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/phd-consortium/">http://www.icts-and-society.net/meeting/phd-consortium/</a> Conference Chairs: Meritxell Roca Sale (IN3) & Wolfang Hofkirchner (Unified Theory of Information Research Group) PROGRAMME 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 (3 students) 11:30–11:45: Coffee Break 11:45–13:15: PhD Consortium Session II (3 students) 13:15: Lunch 14:45-16:15: PhD Consortium Session III (3 students) 16:15-16:30: Coffee Break 16:30-18:00: PhD Consortium Session IV (3 students) 18:00-18:30: Coffee Break 18:30-20:00: PhD Consortium Session V (3 students) 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 - László Karvalics: Anti-Webster, or how did Frank Webster successfully soften up the information society discourse - 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. - Jean-François Blanchette: Computing and Materiality: A Framework - Stefano De Paoli & Vincenzo D’Andrea: Toward Trust as Result: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for the ‘Future of the Internet’ - P.H. Wong: A Methodological Reflection on Converging Technologies (or, Wherein the Empirical is in Information Ethics?) 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: 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 10:00-11:00 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 -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 -C.S.H.N. Murthy: Media convergence and blogging in exposing corruption and fraud in India -Robert Bichler: Internet in China: Myths and Realities 13:00 Lunch 14:30-16:00: Round Table: New Media “Texts”: Culture, Political Economy and Software; Convenor: Korinna Patelis (Cyprus University of Technology) Participants: Elvira García de Torres (CEU Cardenal Herrara University), Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt (University of Tartu) 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-18:00: 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) 18:00-18:30: Coffee Break 18:30-20:00: Plenary Session and Closing Ceremony: The ICTs and Society-Network: Future Perspectives 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. </body> </html>