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DTSTART:20061116T080000Z
DTEND:20061117T153000Z
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SUMMARY:2nd intl. Symposium on Media Informatics
DESCRIPTION:Social software - often connected to older forms of comput
 er mediated communication (CMC) and newer discussion about online comm
 unities - can be defined as software that supports activities in digit
 al social networks. The use of new digital media tools such as blogs\,
  wikis\, tagging and other communicative or multimedia assets create n
 ew challenges for interdisciplinary research in media informatics. Wha
 t are the effects when media get agency in digital networks? How can w
 e trace and understand collective processes on the internet? What is t
 he role of visualisation? What is the role of social software on chang
 e processes in organisations? Are there new models of labour\, new pro
 cesses and new forms of organisations possible? Will users be empowere
 d or will lack of data protection and privacy set free new genies? Wha
 t is the impact of tools supporting social structures on the emancipat
 ion and appropriation? Which are the impacts on design and media? Will
  they help facilitating new forms of democracy\, digital rights\, and 
 overcome the digital divide? Or will the hunt for digital reputation l
 ead to cow paths where only cows walk by? The second international sym
 posium on perspectives in media informatics is organized jointly by th
 e two leading collaborative research centres for media Media and cultu
 ral communication and Medienumbrüche\, the Bonn-Aachen International 
 Center for Information Technology B-IT and the Network of Excellence o
 n technology enhanced professional learning PROLEARN. It brings togeth
 er researchers and practitioners from media informatics\, sociology\, 
 ANT\, law\, media theory\, social software\, collaborative work and le
 arning\, to discuss current trends and emergent issues of sociality in
  digital networks in a mixture of invited talks and round table events
 . The event will be accomplished by online activities and practical ex
 ercises in social software.
LOCATION:Bonn\, Germany
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