[Air-L] Upcoming event in Berlin - July 4-5

[Charles Ess]

Dear AoIRists,

As some of you no doubt know, the annual New Media in the Information
Society conference, sponsored by the Alcatel-Lucent Stiftung and supporting
universities (die Freie Universität Berlin, die Hochschule für Technik und
Wirtschaft Berlin, die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin sowie die Technische
Universität Berlin)  will take place this coming Wednesday and Thursday at
the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leibniz-Saal,
Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin.

More details, including the program (in German and English) can be found at
<www.nmi-berlin-2012.de>

If any AoIRists will be around: I'm deeply honored by the opportunity to
make a presentation on Thursday, July 5, as part of a panel on the theme
"Mass media - which way?", 10.00-12.00, along with Prof. Dr. Claus Pias,
(Leuphana University of Lüneburg) Akad. Direktor PD Dr.Martin Warnke,
(Leuphana University of Lüneburg), and (Chair) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Coy,
(Humboldt- University Berlin).
My talk is titled "New Media and Selfhood: Democracy 3.0 and the End of
Equality?" and collects some recent work on third spaces by Stine Lomborg
(Copenhagen), Maria Bakardjieva's account of "subactivism," contemporary
Chinese legal developments regarding privacy, and Pak Wong's recent PhD
(Twente, the Netherlands) on Confucian tradition and the Chinese Internet
(among other things).
My talk will be mostly in German (wish me luck), but the slides will be in
English and follow-up discussion can include English.

If any AoIR colleagues will be there, please let me know - would very much
enjoy meeting up over coffee, etc.

All best for the weekend,
- charles

Until August 31, 2012: Professor MSO
Media Studies, Institute for Aesthetics and Communication
Aarhus University
Helsingforsgade 14 
8200 Aarhus
Denmark

>From 1. Sept. 2012: Associate Professor in Media Studies
Department of Media and Communication
Forskningsparken II
Gaustadalléen 21 
0349  Oslo  Norway

Lifetime member, AoIR

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