You might want to do some searches around "community informatics" which is very much concerned with ICTs and economic and social development (and associated social change). My current blogpost (and the associated comments) might also be of interest: The-dead-hand-of-western-academe-community-informatics-in-a-less-developed-c ountry-context <http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/the-dead-hand-of-western-academe-c ommunity-informatics-in-a-less-developed-country-context/> (tiny url http://wp.me/pJQl5-6Z ) M Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: The Journal of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 11:40:08 +0200 From: Annette Markham <amarkham@gmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] media and social change networks? Message-ID: <BANLkTinME0UfMXknMUbHqO0M6HawvWQpvg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi All, I'm trying to get a sense of what research collectives/networks focus specifically on media and social change. If you know of any, could you post to this list? I realize this is a huge category, but I'm trying to get a sense of how this general topic is being approached, either within-discipline, across disciplines, or outside academia. My query is deliberately vague to try to generate the breadth of this topic area. (I also ask because I just returned from a workshop focused on creating a research network on media and social change within media anthropology and I'd like to ascertain how closely this network would align with other efforts) Thanks for anything you provide. I'd be happy to share a collection of anything that emerges from this inquiry. annette ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Guest Professor Institute for Communication & Media Studies Centre for Internet Research Aarhus University, Denmark Senior Research Fellow, Internet Research Ethics Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amarkham@gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Co-Editor, International Journal of Internet Research Ethics http://www.ijire.net ************************************* _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/