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[Kimberly De Vries]

Another European conference...

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From: Johan Fornas <fornas at acsis.liu.se>
Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:58 AM
Subject: [ACS] 2 DREAM Conference
To: ACS at uta.fi

Digital Content Creation:
Creativity, Competence, Critique

 The second international DREAM conference
18-20 September 2008
 University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
 In knowledge-based societies, competence formation through
 education is key, and the formative role played by digital
 communication is widely acknowledged. However, one of the major
 challenges today is the mismatch between the digital resources
 nurtured by users in and outside of formal educational contexts. Not
 least young people's rapid take-up of social software such as weblogs
 and wikis, online chat clients and virtual world applications serve to
 challenge existing forms of communication for learning, since these
 innovations allow and assume users' own creation, sharing and editing
 of content.

 Conference goals
 This conference will present and discuss the most advanced and
 exciting research on digital content creation, its socio-cultural contexts
 and educational consequences. A major aim of the conference is to
 bring together an international forum of scholars from a range of
 disciplines including media and ICT studies, education, psychology,
 anthropology, sociology and cultural studies - and to promote dialogue
 within and across research traditions.  We also aim to develop dialogue
 between researchers, educators and producers of new learning
 resources.

 Conference themes
 Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

 * Digital content creation: creative processes and textual
 reappropriations
 * Competence formation through digital content creation: personal
 voice or commercial coercion?
 * Institutional ramifications of digital content creation for learning
 * Studying digital content creation: the challenge of new
 methodologies

 Papers are encouraged from researchers with interests in any of these
 specific themes as well as the general issues of the conference.


Submissions
 If you would like to present a paper, please submit a 400 word
 abstract with an indication of which of the above themes you will
 address. Abstracts must include the title of your paper along with
 author name(s), affiliation, and contact details (postal address,
 telephone, fax and email address). Abstracts (format: pdf, doc, rtf)
 should be submitted to mail at dream.dk

 After the conference, authors are invited to submit revised versions of
 their papers from which contributions will be selected for a peer-
 reviewed volume focusing on the main themes of the conference.

 Important dates
 15 April 2008             deadline for submission of abstracts
 1 June 2008               notification of authors
 1 July 2008                deadline for early registration
 1 August 2008            deadline for submission of final papers

 Keynote speakers
 Keynote speakers will include professor David Buckingham (London
 Knowledge Lab, University of London), professor John Hartley
 (Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology),
 professor Angela McFarlane (Graduate School af Education,
 University of Bristol), professor Roger Säljö (Department of
 Education, University of Gothenburg), and professor Ellen Seiter
 (School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California).

 Pre-Conference: One-day ph.d. course
 The research conference is preceded by an intensive ph.d. course 17
 September 2008, offering a venue for young scholars within relevant
 conference areas to meet with some of the main conference speakers
 and to make project presentations and discussions.

 Conference language
 The conference language is English.

 Stay informed
 Please visit the conference website for full scientific and social
 programme, registration form and keynote abstracts:
http://www.dreamconference.dk/

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