[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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