Dear IAMCR and AoIR-colleagues, A new EU COST research network on "Dynamics of Virtual Work" has formed: http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS1202 Detailed desription: http://w3.cost.eu/fileadmin/domain_files/ISCH/Action_IS1202/mou/IS1202-e.pdf It focuses on the critical study of working conditions that relate to production and productive consumption in the context of ICTs, the "digital labour" debate, the political economy of communication labour, the spatial and global division of communication labour, the global value chain of ICT production, the gender division of communication labour, communication labour and class, the sociology of knowledge work, (paid, unpaid, precarious) work in the creative and cultural industries and related topics. The network has already participants from quite some European countries. There are however a few countries that are eligible to participate, but from which we do not-yet have management committee members. These countries are: Bosnia, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Russia, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine. If you live in any of these countries and are interested in the topic and in becoming a management committee member, then please contact the Action's Chair Prof. Ursula Huws, University of Hertfordshire, UK, u.huws@herts.ac.uk and express/explain your interest in the network. Best wishes, Christian Fuchs (Vice Chair, EU COST Action "Dynamics of Virtual Work") -- - - - Christian Fuchs Unified Theory of Information Research Group christian.fuchs@uti.at http://www.uti.at Personal: http://fuchs.uti.at NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog Editor of tripleC: http://www.triple-c.se Chair of ESA RN18-Sociology of Communications and Media Research ICTs and Society Network: http://www.icts-and-society.net Chair in Media and Communication Studies Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University KyrkogŒrdsgatan 10 Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Sweden christian.fuchs@im.uu.se Tel +46 (0) 18 471 1019 http://fuchs.uti.at http://www.im.uu.se