Please allow me to inform the AoIR list members of Charles Ess' inaugeral lecture at Aarhus University, Denmark. On 1 September Charles Ess was appointed Professor with specific duties at the Institute of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark for a three year period. In relation to the appointment Charles Ess will give an inaugural lecture entitled 'Global convergences, political futures? Self, community, and ethics in digital mediatized worlds'. Drawing from communication theory and information ethics, the inaugural lecture will examine how emerging new media and computer-mediated- communication correlate with profound changes in both “Western” and “Eastern” societies regarding the self/selves, their relationships with larger communities, and the political implications and possibilities of these changes. Since 2003 Charles Ess has been a Distinguished Research Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Drury University, US. He is a leading and internationally recognized scholar in such areas as Internet research, with emphases on culturally-variable elements of Information and Communication Technology and Computer-Mediated Communication; ICTs and democratization; ICTs and religion; Internet research ethics; and Information and Computing Ethics, with an emphasis on cultural perspectives. In addition, Charles Ess has been a leading scholar in the creation of the biennial conference series CATaC, (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, 1998 and onwards), and from 2007 he has been president of the Association of Internet Researchers. For further information about Charles Ess, please visit his website at http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html . Charles Ess can also be contacted via email at charles.ess@gmail.com. Inaugural lecture: Friday 18 September, 14:15, Det lille auditorium, IT-huset, Åbogade 15, Aarhus, Denmark. After the inaugeral lecture a reception will be held at IT-huset's canteen. Best, Niels Brügger ------------------------------------------------------------ LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS March 2009 Website history and the website as an object of study, New Media & Society, 11/1-2, Sage, London 2009, 115-132 [ get an electronic copy at: http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/1-2/115?etoc ] February 2009 Forstå Facebook [in Danish]. www.kommunikationsforum.dk. Copenhagen: 5 pages, 2009 [ read the article: http://www.kommunikationsforum.dk/artikler/forstaa-facebook ] November 2008 The Archived Website and Website Philology. A new Type of Historical Document?, Nordicom Review, 29/2, Göteborg 2008: 155-175 [ get an electronic copy at: http://www.nordicom.gu.se/common/publ_pdf/269_brugger.pdf ] Strukturalismus (with O. Vigsø), Hans Fink Verlag, München: 104 pages, 2008 [ read about the publication: http://www.utb.de/katalog_suchen_detailseite.jsp?buchid=1942 ] INTERESTED IN WEB HISTORY? You may want to join the mailing list webhistory@imv.au.dk at http://mail.imv.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/webhistory INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY OF DR.DK? You may want to join the Facebook group "dr.dk's historie" [in Danish] at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=61000607153 NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD Institute of Information and Media Studies University of Aarhus Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8942 1111 Phone (direct) +45 8942 9226 Telefax + 45 8942 5950 E-mail nb@imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Profile at Kommunikationsforum [in Danish]: www.kommunikationsforum.dk/Niels-Brugger The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.imv.au.dk The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006 http://drdk.dk