Hello list, please have a look at this interesting call for participation http://www.ahref.eu/it/ricerca/educazione/second-digital-ethnography-week for more detailed info: * dew2012@ahref.eu <alessandra@ahref.eu>* full details follow.... --- The second “Digital Ethnography Week” (DEW), an intensive week focused on the study of digital methods and digital ethnographic approaches. The DEW is intended for Ph.D. students and researchers interested in developing advanced methodological skills to account for the digital in contemporary social life. Centro Studi Etnografia Digitale <http://www.etnografiadigitale.it/>, Fondazione <ahref <http://www.ahref.eu/en>, Societing <http://www.societing.org/> and PhD program in Sociology at the University of Milano<http://www.scienzepolitiche.unimi.it/Dottorati/966_ITA_HTML.html>, are proud to announce the organization of the 2nd “Digital Ethnography Week”! *The DEW will take place during five days, between the 17 and the 21 of September 2012: an intensive week focused on the study of digital methods and digital ethnographic approaches. * * * The field of digital ethnography (also known as netnography, virtual ethnography, or cyberetnography) has been growing in recent years, and the focus has changed from looking at online phenomena as belonging to a world apart, to studying how online cultures, practices and life forms integrate, combine and shape off-line social life. During the DEW we want to *expand the concept of digital ethnography* even further, practically, theoretically and methodologically. We will build on the combined competences of the Centro Studi di Etnografia Digitale, the Fondazione <ahref, and Societing. *The week will feature world famous scholars along with experts from the Scientific Committee and the institutions organizing the week*. The program will last for *five days*. The *mornings* will be dedicated to *lectures*. In the *afternoons*participants will be given *tuition* in the pursuit of their own research projects, along with methodological labs The program will start with an open day directed to companies which will be followed by four days open to Ph.D students and researchers (credits can be arranged via the PhD program in Sociology at the University of Milano). *DEW Program (speakers to be announced):* *Day 1, September 17th.* *Open Day for Companies: Netnography in Marketing Research* *Day 2, September 18th.* *Introduction to Digital Ethnography and Digital Methods* *Day 3, September 19th.* *Studying online reputation* *Day 4, September 20th.* *Understanding Digital Collectives* *Day 5, September 21st.* *Workshop on Data Visualization.* *A detailed program will be available as soon as possible at the present website.* *The participation fees are * - PhD Students: € 200,00 - Academic and Professional Researchers: € 1.000,00 Depending on the number of participants, a small number of scholarships will be available to cover participation fees *Important Dates: * - July 22nd: Application Submission Deadline - July 31st: Notification of Acceptance and Scholarship Notification - August 15th: Registration Deadline *To submit your application, please send your project (max 1000 words) and your cv to dew2012@ahref.eu <alessandra@ahref.eu> * DEW is co-organized by the Centro Studi di Etnografia Digitale, Fondazione <ahref, Societing and the PhD program in Sociology at the Graduate School in Social and Political Sciences, University of Milano. The *Centro Studi Etnografia Digitale <http://www.etnografiadigitale.it/>* is a group of young researchers that are engaged in developing theoretical and methodological approaches to qualitative and quantiative online research. The group has accumulated a range of publications in Italian and has worked for corporate clients like Google, Nestle, Chicco, and Barilla. Our academic sponsors are the Graduate School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milano, and the RBB project at the Copenhagen Business School. *Fondazione <ahref <http://www.ahref.eu/en>* is a research Foundation based in Trento (Italy), founded in September 2010. <ahref research activities are focused on the broad subject of “the quality of information” emerging from today's social networks and digital media. Its research activities include internet studies, digital methods, online reputation, user experience, digital games, participatory design, and the governance of digital collectives. Prior to join the Foundation, <ahref researchers were already active in the field and have been using digital methods since 2004, publishing articles and presenting papers at international venues. * **Societing <http://www.societing.org/>* is a collective of researchers and professionals that are interested in new forms of economic and political innovation. The blog societing.org (in Italian) gathers contributions from thinkers and practitioners who are interested in fields like social innovation, social entrepreneurship, social movements, new media, alternative currencies, social finance and so on. The societing collective also organizes a Summer school in the last week of August, on new media and social change in the Mediterranean. * PhD program in Sociology at the University of Milano<http://www.scienzepolitiche.unimi.it/Dottorati/966_ITA_HTML.html> * is part of the Graduate School in Social and Political Sciences. The aim of the program is to provide structured training in theoretically-guided empirical research across a wide range of sociological fields and to introduce students to current international debates in both qualitative and quantitative social research. -- ---- Crimes and punishments in Virtual Worlds http://www.springerlink.com/content/n4m858m182677h44/ Produsage, ANT & Skills http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a935694592~frm=title...