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<P><FONT size=2>Apologies for cross posting</FONT> <BR><FONT
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<P><FONT size=2>__EMTEL reports now available at <A
href="http://www.emtel2.org/">http://www.emtel2.org/</A></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>The European Media Technology and Everyday Life Network (EMTEL)
was funded by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme. It was
constituted as a research and training network within the programme Improving
Knowledge Potential and oriented towards "creating a user friendly information
society". </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>EMTEL conducted interdisciplinary social scientific research
between 2000 and 2003, about the information society from the perspective of
everyday life.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>The final results of the research are now available at <A
href="http://www.emtel2.org/">http://www.emtel2.org/</A></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Seven reports deal with specific aspects of the everyday life in
the Information Society:</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>YOUTH: The Web Generation? The (De)Construction of Users, Morals
and Consumption</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE: A Social and Technological View of Ambient
Intelligence in Everyday Life: What bends the trend?</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>WORK: Boundaries in a Space of Flows. The Case of Migrant
Researchers' Use of ICT</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>CONSUMPTION: An Ethnographic Study of Internet Consumption in
Ireland: Between Domesticity and the Public Participation</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>POLITICAL ACTIVISM: ICT-Usage among Transnational Social
Movements in the Networked Society: to organise, to mediate & to
influence</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>MINORITY MEDIA: Mapping Diasporic Media across the EU:
Addressing Cultural Exclusion</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>DISABILITY: ICT and social inclusion in the everyday life of
less abled</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>people </FONT></P><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>Five THEMATIC REPORTS cover overarching aspects of the
Information Society:</FONT> </P><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>Media and Technology in the Everyday Life of European Societies
</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>The Information Society in Europe: Methods and
Methodologies</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Inclusion and Exclusion in the Information
Society</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>ICTs in Everyday Life : Public Policy
Implications for 'Europe's Way to the Information Society'</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>Living and Working in the Information Society: Quality of Life in a
Digital World</FONT> </P><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>Contributing partners are as follows:</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>. ASCoR, The University of Amsterdam</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>.
COMTEC, Dublin City University</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>. IPTS, Seville</FONT>
<BR><FONT size=2>. LENTIC, The University of Liege</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>.
Media@lse, London School or Economics (co-ordinating centre)</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>. NTNU, University of Trondheim</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>. SMIT, Free
University of Brussels</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>. TNO, Delft</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>. SINTEF, University of Trondheim</FONT> </P><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>For more information, please refer to the EMTEL Network website
(<A href="http://www.emtel2.org/">http://www.emtel2.org/</A>).</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>The site also features the proceeding of the Network Conference,
held in April 2004. (www.emtelconference.org).</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Yours Sincerely,</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Roger Silverstone</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>EMTEL
Co-ordinator</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>r.silverstone@lse.ac.uk</FONT> </P>
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