[Air-L] The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard

[Rick Duque]

Internet Studies colleagues,

We are having a Focus the Nation on Climate Change
taking place at my campus this week.  This is an
interesting use of Internet to communicate complex
ecological and social processes. 

http://storyofstuff.com/

This is a short video by Annie Leonard, an ecologist
and alumnus from Columbia and Cornell.  This site is
an interesting use of Internet to communicate complex
ecological and social processes. 

Please circulate this to your colleagues if you find
it relevant.

Rick B. Duque, PhD
Department of Sociology
Tulane University
rduque at tulane.edu

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> International Association for Media and
> Communication Research (IAMCR)
> 26th Annual Research Conference, 20-25 July 2008
> Stockholm University, Stockholm (Sweden)
> Theme: Media and Global Divides
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> Call for Papers
> COMMUNICATION POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY (CPT) Section
> Sub-theme: DIGITAL DIVIDES - NEW MEDIA, ICT POLICIES
> AND USER  
> EMPOWERMENT
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> The theme ?Media and Global Divides? reflects one of
> the prevailing  
> challenges of public policy-making in digital
> domains globally.  It  
> also represents one of the primary research areas of
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> IAMCR. The Section  
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> of the Stockholm  
> 2008 IAMCR Conference and invites the submission of
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> on the related Sectional sub-theme: Digital Divides
> - New Media, ICT  
> Policies and User Empowerment.
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> Economic, gender, age, racial and social divides
> have typified global  
> society from ancient times to the present, and are
> frequently  
> reflected in conventional media representations and
> output. These  
> traditional divides often re-emerge in the context
> of New Digital  
> Media, at the centre of which are the Internet, Web
> 2.0 applications  
> and Next Generation Networks. The CPT Section is
> inviting further and  
> deeper research and reflections on social context,
> policy  
> implications and solutions to the related issues.
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> Are public and corporate policies keeping up with
> changes in citizen  
> demand for greater access to the new communication
> tools? Is there  
> now a more balanced inclusion of the voices of
> varied demographic  
> groups such as youth, the elderly, women, men and
> the disabled in  
> digital media output? Do the burgeoning information
> and communication  
> technologies (ICTs) offer more access or less for
> those at the bottom  
> of the economic pyramid? What are the new
> innovations that offer a  
> greater chance of social equity? Can New Media help
> to redress  
> imbalances in conventional communications output or
> do these emerging  
> applications mainly create new info-elites? Are the
> new patterns of  
> user-generated content and online communities a form
> of emancipation  
> from conventional output inequalities and how do
> they affect concepts  
> of quality, ownership, participation and identity?
> Is there now more  
> scope for redressing the historic access and
> informational chasm  
> between the global North and the Global South? The
> questions abound.
> 
> The CPT Section welcomes abstracts of between 300
> and 500 words from  
> scholars of any academic discipline bearing on these
> and related  
> issues. Topics of particular interest in abstract
> submissions to the  
> Section include:
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> * The Impacts of National or Regional Communications
> Policies on  
> Minorities
> * The Meaning and Significance of Digital
> Technologies and Global  
> Divides for varied communities of interest, such as
> Rural or Urban  
> residents, youth and the elderly
> * Technology, Communications Policy and Inequality
> in Historical  
> Perspectives
> *  Mobile Broadband, Telephony Usage Patterns and
> Poverty
> * Emerging Divides in Relation to New Media use
> within Families,  
> Personal Relationships, Neighbourhoods, Communities
> and Cities
> * Mediating Dominance - ICT?s and Alternative Media
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