[Air-L] Event invitation: Building Community with the Help of Information and Communications

Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies westminster.ias at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 09:40:43 PST 2017


*Building Community with the Help of Information and Communications–
Opportunities and Challenges*
Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London 1WB 2HW
Wednesday, 25 January 2017 from 18:00 to 20:00 (GMT)



*Professor Claire Wallace, University of Aberdeen*The lecture will present
work carried out in Aberdeen among four rural communities that have used
information technology in different ways to help build community networks
and an enhanced sense of identity and social cohesion. The research was
sponsored by the EPSRC as part of the Cultures and Communities Network+
initiative and as part of the Aberdeen Digital Economy hub.

*Discussant:* Adam Burns, member of the netCommons project Advisory board


*Bios*
Claire Wallace is Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen and
was co-investigator on both the CCNetwork+ and the Aberdeen Rural Digital
Economy Hub. She was formerly President of the European Sociological
Association and has worked in Research Institutes and Universities in
England, Austria, Czech Republic and most recently Scotland.

Adam Burns has worked as an IT security advisor and has been instrumental
in the development of alternative wireless networks since the 1990s, first
in Australia, subsequently in London and Berlin, where he now resides. He
is predominantly associated with the Free2Air network in east London but
has also been very active in the alternative networks movement worldwide
publishing extensively on community networks and participating in numerous
meetings.

Please register via Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-community-with-the-help-of-information-and-communications-tickets-30489441741

Best wishes,

Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies
Contact: Denise at d.hansen at westminster.ac.uk



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