[Air-L] Web as Culture: Conference Announcement

[Thies Boettcher]

Web as Culture: Ethnographic, linguistic and didactic perspectives
 
International Symposium organized by the Graduate Centre for Study of Culture (GCSC) and the Centre for Media and Interactivity (ZMI), Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
Main Building and Margarete-Bieber-Hall, Ludwigstrasse 23/34, 35390 Giessen 
 
Justus Liebig University Giessen, July 16 - 18, 2009
 
The World Wide Web is a cultural space in which new forms of social networking, of creating, acquiring and teaching knowledge and competencies, and of constructing personal and cultural identities have emerged. The International Symposium "Web as Culture" addresses issues that are involved in the processes of the construction and the perpetuation of social structures, cultural narratives, memories, knowledge and language in the World Wide Web. Particular emphasis is placed on sociocultural processes of transformation such as the change of social networks, the change of teaching and learning cultures and language change instigated by the World Wide Web. These sociocultural processes of transformation will be discussed from various disciplinary perspectives and at all relevant levels of analysis in three parallel sections "Networks, Ethnography, and the Web", "Learning, Teaching, and the Web" and "Language, Linguistics, and the Web". 

Please visit our website www.webasculture.de for detailed information on the conference program and guest registration (deadline June 15th, 2009). 

Program overview
 
Thursday, July 16, 2009
11:30 - 12:30 Registration & Coffee
12:30 - 13:00 Conference Opening 
13:00 - 14:00 Prof. Dr. Henning Lobin "Web as Culture"
14:00 - 14:30 Break
14:30 - 16:00 Session 1
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:30 Keynote Lecture: Prof. Dr. Angelika Storrer "Chatspeak: How web users adapt written language to synchronous communication"
>From 18:30 Boat Tour and Dinner
 
Friday, July 17, 2009
09:00 - 10:30 Session 2
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Panel Discussion (Chair: Prof. Dr. Michael K. Legutke)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Session 3
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:30 Session 4
16:30 - 17:00 Break
17:00 - 18:00 Keynote Lecture: Prof. Dr. Manfred Faßler "Smarte Ethnien? Was und wie suchen wir in digitalen Netzwerken?"
>From 19:00 Dinner
 
Saturday, July 18, 2009
09:00 - 10:30 Session 5
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Keynote Lecture: Prof. Steven Thorne, Ph.D. "Culture, technology, and mediation"
12:00 - 12:30 Final Discussion (Chair: Dr. Thomas Weber)

Contact:          
Email: info at webasculture.de
Website: www.webasculture.de 

Organisers: 
 
Joybrato Mukherjee 
Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität 
Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen 
Ludwigstraße 34 
35390 Giessen 
 
Marcus Burkhardt 
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture 
Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen 
Alter Steinbacher Weg 38  
35394 Giessen 

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International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
Gießener Graduate School for the Humanities (GGK)
 
Justus Liebig University Gießen
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35394 Gießen
Germany

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