[Air-l] Culture, Creativity and Information Technology
rglentz at mail.utexas.edu
rglentz at mail.utexas.edu
Sat Aug 31 07:59:20 PDT 2002
Dear colleagues,
This new program may be of interest to researchers wishing to do
interdisciplinary work related to technology but having difficult finding
funding support.
B. Lentz (UT-Austin)
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/ccit/
Culture, Creativity and
Information Technology
This new program builds on the
proposition that technological innovation is
inseparable from the forms of
social and cultural innovation that support it and
develop around it. Information
technologies -- not only computers but also new
media and new forms of
communication technology --are deeply embedded in
culture. They shape and are
shaped by the ways in which people give meaning to
their lives together, develop
specific identities, pass on local traditions and
express themselves through art
and other forms of cultural production. Institutions
and government also play a
prominent role in this process as sources of
innovation, as adapters of
technology to existing structures and as regulators of
how new technologies are used.
The Culture Creativity and
Information Technology Program focuses on the role of
information technology in
enabling new forms of cultural creation, new pathways of
cultural dissemination, new
opportunities for participation and new regimes of
exclusion. We believe that there
is much greater potential for social science to
engage these questions than has
been demonstrated so far, and that such
engagement can lead to better
understanding of the ways in which information
technologies impact different
groups, different societies and different forms of
cultural production.
This program is currently in the
planning stages, and will likely support a fuller
range of research activities in
2002. Funding is provided by the Rockefeller
Foundation.
Planning Committee
Howard Becker
Sociology, University of
California, Santa Barbara
Yochai Benkler
Information Law Institute,
New York University Law School
Michael Century
Center for Research on
Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, McGill
University
Paul DiMaggio
Sociology, Princeton
University
Terry Fisher
Berkman Center for Internet
and Society, Harvard Law School
Nicholas Garnham
Media Studies, School of
Communication, Design and Media, University of
Westminster
Lev Manovich
Visual Arts, University of
California, San Diego
Monroe Price
Comparative Media Law and
Policy, Oxford University
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
Anthropology, University of
Brazilia
Roger Silverstone
Media and Communications,
London School of Economics
Susan Leigh Star
Communication, University
of California, San Diego
Ravi Sundaram
Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies, Delhi, India
Sherry Turkle
Science, Technology and
Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technologyair-l at aoir.org
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