[Air-L] Inaugeral lecture, Charles Ess

[Niels Brügger]

Please allow me to inform the AoIR list members of Charles Ess'  
inaugeral lecture at Aarhus University, Denmark.


On 1 September Charles Ess was appointed Professor with specific  
duties at the Institute of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus  
University, Denmark for a three year period.

In relation to the appointment Charles Ess will give an inaugural  
lecture entitled 'Global convergences, political futures? Self,  
community, and ethics in digital mediatized worlds'. Drawing from  
communication theory and information ethics, the inaugural lecture  
will examine how emerging new media and computer-mediated- 
communication correlate with profound changes in both “Western” and  
“Eastern” societies regarding the self/selves, their relationships  
with larger communities, and the political implications and  
possibilities of these changes.

Since 2003 Charles Ess has been a Distinguished Research Professor of  
Interdisciplinary Studies at Drury University, US. He is a leading and  
internationally recognized scholar in such areas as Internet research,  
with emphases on culturally-variable elements of Information and  
Communication Technology and Computer-Mediated Communication; ICTs and  
democratization; ICTs and religion; Internet research ethics; and  
Information and Computing Ethics, with an emphasis on cultural  
perspectives.

In addition, Charles Ess has been a leading scholar in the creation of  
the biennial conference series CATaC, (Cultural Attitudes towards  
Technology and Communication, 1998 and onwards), and from 2007 he has  
been president of the Association of Internet Researchers.

For further information about Charles Ess, please visit his website at http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html 
. Charles Ess can also be contacted via email at charles.ess at gmail.com.

Inaugural lecture: Friday 18 September, 14:15, Det lille auditorium,  
IT-huset, Åbogade 15, Aarhus, Denmark.
After the inaugeral lecture a reception will be held at IT-huset's  
canteen.


Best,

Niels Brügger


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NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD
Institute of Information and Media Studies
University of Aarhus
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8200 Aarhus N
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