[Air-L] EU COST Network "Dynamics of Virtual Work"

[Scott MacLeod]

Dear Christian, Ursula and AoIR-ians,

I'm presently developing World University and School, which is like
Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare. WUaS is planning to become a wiki
school/university in all <205 countries
(http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States) and 7,413
languages (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages);
Wikipedia, by way of comparison, is in 285 languages, as wiki, and we
all created it. A new, Creative Commons' licensed, wiki, which
Wikipedians and Wikimedians, based in Berlin, are currently
developing, is in the works for WUaS.

Here's the very first flyer for the first, matriculating, MIT-centric,
bachelor's degree class, in 2014, in English -
http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSFriendsFlyerforProspectiveStudentApplicants.pdf
- to give you an idea of how WUaS works. (WUaS even is planning an
online, all-instruments, all-languages Music School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School -
each a wiki page to begin.

WUaS is also planning to offer free, MIT OCW-centric, CC-licensed,
bachelor, Ph.D., I.B., law and M.D. degrees, in many, many countries,
including in some of the ones you mention in this email, Christian. I
just wanted to come into communication here with you about these
possibilities. MIT OCW-centric degrees, and open, online,
people-to-people schools, will benefit a lot of people.

Are there ways for me or WUaS to become involved in these projects,
even though I don't live in any of these countries?

Thank you.

Best wishes,
Scott

http://scottmacleod.com
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com





On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs at uti.at> wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> A new EU COST research network on "Virtual Work" has formed:
> http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS1202
> Detailed desription:
> http://w3.cost.eu/fileadmin/domain_files/ISCH/Action_IS1202/mou/IS1202-e.pdf
>
> It focuses on the critical study of working conditions that relate to
> production and productive consumption in the context of ICTs, the "digital
> labour" debate, the political economy of communication labour, the spatial
> and global division of communication labour, the global value chain of ICT
> production, the gender division of communication labour, communication
> labour and class, the sociology of knowledge work, (paid, unpaid,
> precarious) work in the creative and cultural industries and related topics.
>
> The network has already participants from quite some European countries.
> There are however a few countries that are eligible to participate, but from
> which we do not-yet have management committee members. These countries are:
> Bosnia, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey,
> Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova,
> Montenegro, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Russia, Syria, Tunisia,
> Ukraine.
>
> If you live in any of these countries and are interested in the topic and in
> becoming a management committee member, then please contact the Action's
> Chair
> Prof. Ursula Huws, University of Hertfordshire, UK, u.huws at herts.ac.uk
> and express/explain your interest in the network.
>
> Best wishes,
> Christian Fuchs
> (Vice Chair, EU COST Action "Dynamics of Virtual Work")
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