Dear all, the keynote lectures from the Symposium "Web as Culture" (Giessen, Germany), hosted by the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) and the Centre for Media and Interactivity (ZMI) will be streamed here: www.webasculture.de/wordpress/live/ Please take note that the first two keynotes are in German, the others in English. Programme: The times given here are in Central European Time (UTC +1) Thursday, July 16, 2009 13:00 - 14:00 Prof. Henning Lobin "Web as Culture" (German) (New York: 7 a.m., LA 4 a.m., New Dehli 4:30 p.m., Tokio 8 p.m. etc.) 16:30 - 17:30 Prof. Angelika Storrer "Chatspeak: How web users adapt written language to synchronous communication" (German) (New York: 11:30 a.m., LA 8:30 a.m., New Dehli 9 p.m., Tokio 0:30 a.m. etc.) Friday, July 17, 2009 17:00 - 18:00 Prof. Manfred Faßler "Smart ethnic groups. Or: what and how are we looking for in Networks?" (English) (New York: 12 noon, LA 9 a.m., New Dehli 9:30 p.m., Tokio 1 a.m. etc.) Saturday, July 18, 2009 11:00 - 12:00 Prof. Steven Thorne "Culture, technology, and mediation" (English) (New York: 5 a.m., LA 2 a.m., New Dehli 2:30 p.m., Tokio 6 p.m.) <https://elysion.uni-giessen.de/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://cultdoc.uni-giessen.de/> ___________________________________ Thies W. Böttcher M.A. | PhD Fellow & Research Assistant (Website) International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) Gießener Graduate School for the Humanities (GGK) Justus Liebig University Gießen Alter Steinbacher Weg 38 35394 Gießen Germany Tel.: +49.641.99 300 46 Tel.: +49.641.99 300 41 (GCSC Office) Fax: +49.641.99 300 49 thies.boettcher@gcsc.uni-giessen.de <mailto:thies.boettcher@gcsc.uni-giessen.de> http://gcsc.uni-giessen.de/ <http://gcsc.uni-giessen.de/> http://cultdoc.uni-giessen.de/ <http://cultdoc.uni-giessen.de/> www.uni-giessen.de/videoblog-gcsc <http://www.uni-giessen.de/videoblog-gcsc>