Dear AoIRists, As some of you no doubt know, the annual New Media in the Information Society conference, sponsored by the Alcatel-Lucent Stiftung and supporting universities (die Freie Universität Berlin, die Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin sowie die Technische Universität Berlin) will take place this coming Wednesday and Thursday at the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leibniz-Saal, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin. More details, including the program (in German and English) can be found at <www.nmi-berlin-2012.de> If any AoIRists will be around: I'm deeply honored by the opportunity to make a presentation on Thursday, July 5, as part of a panel on the theme "Mass media - which way?", 10.00-12.00, along with Prof. Dr. Claus Pias, (Leuphana University of Lüneburg) Akad. Direktor PD Dr.Martin Warnke, (Leuphana University of Lüneburg), and (Chair) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Coy, (Humboldt- University Berlin). My talk is titled "New Media and Selfhood: Democracy 3.0 and the End of Equality?" and collects some recent work on third spaces by Stine Lomborg (Copenhagen), Maria Bakardjieva's account of "subactivism," contemporary Chinese legal developments regarding privacy, and Pak Wong's recent PhD (Twente, the Netherlands) on Confucian tradition and the Chinese Internet (among other things). My talk will be mostly in German (wish me luck), but the slides will be in English and follow-up discussion can include English. If any AoIR colleagues will be there, please let me know - would very much enjoy meeting up over coffee, etc. All best for the weekend, - charles Until August 31, 2012: Professor MSO Media Studies, Institute for Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus Denmark
From 1. Sept. 2012: Associate Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication Forskningsparken II Gaustadalléen 21 0349 Oslo Norway
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