Internet Studies colleagues, We are having a Focus the Nation on Climate Change taking place at my campus this week. This is an interesting use of Internet to communicate complex ecological and social processes. http://storyofstuff.com/ This is a short video by Annie Leonard, an ecologist and alumnus from Columbia and Cornell. This site is an interesting use of Internet to communicate complex ecological and social processes. Please circulate this to your colleagues if you find it relevant. Rick B. Duque, PhD Department of Sociology Tulane University rduque@tulane.edu --- air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org wrote:

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Hey!

If any professor is participating in the Google Online Marketing Challenge please contact me off line.

Best, Jim

PS - Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!

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Hey!

If any professor is participating in the Google Online Marketing Challenge please contact me off line.

Best, Jim

PS - Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!

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Dear all,

Thank you for distributing widely.

Kind regards, Jo Pierson

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International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 26th Annual Research Conference, 20-25 July 2008 Stockholm University, Stockholm (Sweden) Theme: Media and Global Divides

Call for Papers COMMUNICATION POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY (CPT) Section Sub-theme: DIGITAL DIVIDES - NEW MEDIA, ICT POLICIES AND USER EMPOWERMENT

The theme ?Media and Global Divides? reflects one of the prevailing challenges of public policy-making in digital domains globally. It also represents one of the primary research areas of the Communication Policy and Technology Section of the IAMCR. The Section therefore welcomes this subject as the overall theme of the Stockholm 2008 IAMCR Conference and invites the submission of abstracts bearing on the related Sectional sub-theme: Digital Divides - New Media, ICT Policies and User Empowerment.

Economic, gender, age, racial and social divides have typified global society from ancient times to the present, and are frequently reflected in conventional media representations and output. These traditional divides often re-emerge in the context of New Digital Media, at the centre of which are the Internet, Web 2.0 applications and Next Generation Networks. The CPT Section is inviting further and deeper research and reflections on social context, policy implications and solutions to the related issues.

Are public and corporate policies keeping up with changes in citizen demand for greater access to the new communication tools? Is there now a more balanced inclusion of the voices of varied demographic groups such as youth, the elderly, women, men and the disabled in digital media output? Do the burgeoning information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer more access or less for those at the bottom of the economic pyramid? What are the new innovations that offer a greater chance of social equity? Can New Media help to redress imbalances in conventional communications output or do these emerging applications mainly create new info-elites? Are the new patterns of user-generated content and online communities a form of emancipation from conventional output inequalities and how do they affect concepts of quality, ownership, participation and identity? Is there now more scope for redressing the historic access and informational chasm between the global North and the Global South? The questions abound.

The CPT Section welcomes abstracts of between 300 and 500 words from scholars of any academic discipline bearing on these and related issues. Topics of particular interest in abstract submissions to the Section include:

* The Impacts of National or Regional Communications Policies on Minorities * The Meaning and Significance of Digital Technologies and Global Divides for varied communities of interest, such as Rural or Urban residents, youth and the elderly * Technology, Communications Policy and Inequality in Historical Perspectives * Mobile Broadband, Telephony Usage Patterns and Poverty * Emerging Divides in Relation to New Media use within Families, Personal Relationships, Neighbourhoods, Communities and Cities * Mediating Dominance - ICT?s and Alternative Media

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