[Air-l] Great conference so far

[Matthew Allen]

Hi everyone
 
A quick update from the conference - commiserations if you've not been able to make it - it's going great guns.  In particular I want to say that the keynotes by Ang Peng Hwa and Saskia Sassen have been brilliant. APH very thought provoking as to the way the technological systems embody challenges to the traditions and norms of international relations, creating almost-insuperable circumstances. His insights into the ways in which the WGIG report was produced, for the WSIS, makes clear the challenges facing governments in managing the Internet globally. SS added further weight to the developing notion of a dialogic relation between the social and the technological - brilliant examples of the way in which traditional social science analyses of the 'use' of technology might not provide all of the answers to the ways social structures and institutions come to alter the technological possibilities inherent in the Internet.
 
V. thought provoking.
 
Matt
 
Dr Matthew Allen
Associate Professor Internet Studies
Associate Dean Teaching and Learning, Humanities
Curtin University of Technology, CRICOS 00301J Australia
m.allen at curtin.edu.au
http://smi.curtin.edu.au/netstudies/allen.htm
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Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers http://www.aoir.org