[Air-l] Digital Natives in Australia and Korea: Australia-Korea Fundation Conference

[Larissa Hjorth]

Apologies for cross posting ^^


Digital Natives in Australia and Korea

For details of the program, visit http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/about/news/AKFconf06.html 

WHEN: Thursday 30 November 2006

TIME: 9:00 - 4:30

WHERE: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne

ENTRY: $30, $10 (for students)



The Department of Information Systems at University of Melbourne, with the support of the Australia-Korea Foundation and Asialink, is hosting a one-day conference on young people’s digital culture in Korea and Australia.



Today's young people are the first generation born in, and have grown up with, the Internet and mobile technologies. They are often called ‘digital natives’. They are native speakers of the digital language of computers, video games, Internet and mobile technologies. Korea is a world leader in the deployment and application of ICT like broadband and mobile internet, and sees new types of digital culture being continuously created by its digital-savvy young generations. 



Experts from the two countries will examine how information and communication technologies shape the way young people live and communicate in the two countries and how they produce and consume culture.