Fake! Youtube-Kino @ MQ, 7. Juli

„If it’s on teh interweb it must be true“? – Nicht immer, wie wir im Rahmen der Sommer-Session der Gruppe Internetforschung zeigen werden. Unter dem Motto “Fake! Realität und Illusion“ gibt es einen Abend lang Youtube-Clips vom Feinsten, garniert mit kurzen und möglichst g’scheiten Kommentaren – schließlich sind wir eine Forschungsgruppe. Los geht’s am 7.7. mit Einbruch der Dämmerung (20:30h), auf der Wiese (dem Streifen Rasen zwischen MQ und 2er-Linie) vor dem Quartier 21. Ein Programm gibt’s auch schon:

• Jana Herwig: Fake als Attraktion
• René König: 9/11 was an inside job! – YouTube als Plattform für alternative Deutungen des 11. September 2001
• Axel Maireder: Slap me happy – but real! Die Realitätskonstruktionen von Jugendlichen zu Amateur-Gewaltvideos
• Sigrid Jones: Werbung oder nicht Werbung?
• Axel Kittenberger: Who is (not) real? 
• Philipp Budka: ’Don’t Call me Eskimo!’ Repräsentationen indigener Musik(er) auf YouTube
• Susanne Rabler: Was Avatare in ihrer Freizeit tun, und wie World of Warcraft in der Realität aussieht.
• Thomas Lohninger: How can this be real?

Schluss mit den Videos ist leider spätestens um 22h, danach ist aber noch Zeit für intensive gemeinschaftliche Reflexion des Gesehenen. Bei Schlechtwetter übersiedeln wir in den Gang des Quartier 21. Wir freuen uns auf interessiertes Publikum und anregende Diskussionen!

CfP: Social Networking and Communities, Copenhagen, November 09

Social Networking and Communities – The big and the small screen, 26-27 November, 2009, Second CMI Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.Call for Papers: Deadline for abstracts: 14 August, 2009

Worldwide, people connect via the web and extend their social communities beyond what could ever have been realized without the web. Denmark globally has one of the highest numbers of users of web-based social networking sites per habitant. Till now, users of web-based social networking and communities have mainly used traditional computers with large screens. For many users, the concept of social networking means always on which sets focus on the trend of being able to do social networking also on smart phones and other smaller screens. The transition from the big screen to the small screen in relation to social networking and communities outlines a number of challenges that the second CMI conference will discuss. Areas to be discussed are: how to secure the privacy for social network users; which are the demands to operators/content providers on the price structure; how can the technological sustainability be secured with the smaller screens; which are the alternative interaction mechanisms to secure that users still have a good user experience; which new types of services will be relevant to mobile devices; how will the different initiatives and services coexist and which demands must be set to the standardization when convergence takes place in this way? 
The second CMI conference discusses the demands and challenges set out to the market and the stakeholders; to the technology and the interaction between users and the technology; and the users and their demands to the mobile part of the web-based social networking. 

http://conf.cmi.aau.dk/

CfP: Hannoverscher Workshop, März 2010

Call der Universität Hannover auf Mediensprache.net für eine Tagung zur „kritischen Prüfung“ der Entwicklungen im Web 2.0 „aus sprach-, medien- und kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Perspektive“. Themen:

• Vernetzung von Kommunikationsformen
• Vernetzungen von Modalitäten 
• Vernetzungen von Individuen

Abstracts bis zum 30. November 2009. >Call

CfP: E-Democracy – Online Youth Participation And Engagement

The International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) has issued a call for papers for an special issue on E-Democracy – Online Youth Participation And Engagement. They are searching for papers on the following issues (from the call):

Adoption of Web 2.0, social networking, and other technologies by young people and the opportunities and challenges for extending this adoption for their engagement in deliberative civic processes

Assessing communicative and political action via the Internet from democratic theory perspectives

Examples of youth online participation and innovative practices of youth engagement in political and civic matters by governments, political parties, non-government organizations or groups of young people

How and why does technology enable/support one way of engagement rather than another: searching beyond technological and social determinism?

How does technology ‘produce’ social interaction and young people as participants in online consultation and engagement processes or alternatively how the participants (perhaps at the same time?) socially construct technology to serve their interests?

Reviews and critique of existing theoretical approaches, assumptions, and conceptualizations of e-democracy, youth online participation, and engagement in social matters; agendas for future research.

Studies investigating social, political, cultural, technological, and other conditions stimulating or obstructing young people’s participation and engagement in online debates and actions

Studies of practices and patterns of youth online activism, political action, and organizing as new emerging forms of e-democracy

Technology as politics or “the question of technology” – what motivates and informs the development and adoption of the Internet, web-based and other social technologies for youth civic online participation and engagement?

What is social technology and why does it matter in imagining and practicing e-democracy by young people?

Young people s’ roles, behaviors, identities, interaction, and contribution in electronic spaces; exploration of creation of meanings, construction of individual and group identities and trust (communities?), (re)visions of citizenship and citizenship education, relationships with governments, etc.

Youth engagement in e-democracy and the possibility of realizing theoretic (normative) proposals for democratic governance (e.g. Habermas’ public sphere)

Deadline is 15 August 2009.