The workshop is organized as part of “Postcolonial Europe”, a two-year international research network, sponsored by the AHRC and involving the Universities of Leeds, Munich and Utrecht. Until recently, most work done in comparative postcolonial studies focussed on Europe’s ex-colonial peripheries. Increasing emphasis is now being placed, however, on the after-effects of colonialism on European metropolitan cultural practice, and on those power relations within Europe that can be analysed as direct or indirect forms of colonial power.

Sandra Ponzanesi and Koen Leurs will be participating in this event.

Click here to go to the website of the workshop.

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Wired Up team members prof. Mariëtte de Haan and Asli Ünlüsoy will participate in theSeventh International Conference on Networked Learning, taking place May 3 & 4 in Aalborg, Denmark.

The Networked Learning Conference is an international, research-based conference. Since its inception in 1998 the conference has developed a strong following by international researchers. In addition it is well supported by practitioners, managers and learning technologists interested in contributing to and hearing about research in this area. The conference is considered a major event in the international 'technology enhanced learning' conference circuit.

Click here to go to the conference website.

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Mix-In, Conference on diversity in higher education is organised by INHolland and VU University of Amsterdam and will take place March 22 and 23, 2010 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Wierd Up team member Koen Leurs will speak about his ongoing work on online social networking sites as spaces of convivality and everyday multiculturalism.

The organisers have invited lecturers, (academic and practice-based) researchers and PhD. students to present the results of research and teaching experience regarding diversity Mix-In, Conference on diversity in higher education

Mix-in offers an opportunity to discuss empirical and theoretical issues as well as case study examples. It will explore new directions and themes concerning diversity as the most important social phenomenon for professionals-to-be and as an imperative to rethink higher education itself.

Non-traditional, non-white professionals, target groups and audiences have gained a significant presence over the last two decades. As a result the professional contexts that higher education students aim to enter are changing. Diversity, and preparing students to work in
multicultural settings are a new challenge for institutions of higher education. The growing diversity of the student body meanwhile is rewarding and enriching. Diversity and multiculturalism force teachers, managers, students as well as practitioners in professional
fields to reflect on a range of questions. They concern teaching programmes (form and content), teacher and student competences; criteria for internships and work practice but also, more generally the development of youth culture, the benefits of diversity in the knowledge economy; representation and identity in a range of contexts.

Koen is presenting in a session on Diversity in digital contexts. The session is entitled Diversity 2.0 and will be chaired by Joke Hermes.

Below are some of the other themes that will be addressed during the two days:

- Multicultural teaching
- The challenge of diversity for the knowledge economy
- Migrant entrepreneurship
- Identity and its development
- Youth culture
- Culture and identity
- Images, representation and citizenship
- Product development for multicultural consumer groups
- Competences in a multicultural context
- Social mobility
- global cities and multicultural encounters
- diversity in health care
- diversity management

Click here to go to the conference website.

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Wired Up organized a meeting last wednesday 20.01.2010 and invited Niels van Doorn to discuss different angles and approaches to the study of gender and the Internet. Van Doorn presented his dissertation work on the performance of gender in weblogs, ICR-chat, social networking sites and video-sharing sites.

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'Participating in a mediated world' was a conference organized by the Platform for Communication, Media, and Information (CMI) within the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The conference “Participating in a mediated world” aimed at bringing together junior and senior scholars from various backgrounds to get familiar with each other’s work; to learn from each other; and to discuss possibilities of future joint research efforts. It is the conviction of the CMI Platform that the opportunities and problems of participating in a mediated world can only be understood through the combination of different theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. As a result, the CMI Platform invited communication scientists, media scholars, and information scientists to present their work at the conference. Presentations at the conference included empirical and theoretical work that were based both on research that has already been done and on work in progress. The conference consisted of paper presentations in the following 4 streams:

· Health and health promotion in a mediated world
· Political engagement and citizenship in a mediated world
· Cultural production and consumption in a mediated world
· Education and learning in a mediated world.

The Wired Up team presented two papers, one related to education and learning and one on the topic of cultural production and consumption.

PhD student Asli Ünlüsoy presented the paper she prepared with Wired Up staff members Mariëtte de Haan, Kevin Leander entitled: "Interfaces among new media, learning and socialization and the migrant".

PhD student Koen Leurs presented the paper he prepared with staff member Sandra Ponzanesi entitled: "Hypertextual selves. Patterns of production and consumption of Dutch Moroccan youth on Hyves"

The event took place November 27, 2009 at the KNAW, Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam.

For additional information, click here.
Click here to go to the CMI Platform website.

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DIASPORA, MIGRATION AND MEDIA SECTION - European Communication Research and Education Association Two-day workshop: Diasporas, Migration and Media: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions November 6-7 2009 Utrecht University, Netherlands. Co-hosted by Nottingham Trent University and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Studying the relationship between diasporas and the media presents several challenges and issues that are at the core of humanities, social sciences, anthropology, and cultural and media studies.
The aim of this workshop, then is to address the state-of-the-art in the field by inviting colleagues – academics, non-academics, researchers and PhD students - to map the diverse areas of investigation and/or present ongoing empirical and theoretical work that might offer a critique as well as point out new directions in the field.

The Wired Up team presented a paper called "At Home in the Web. The diasporic networks of migrant youth: learning and identity construction online".

To read the abstract, click here.
For additional information, click here.

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‘Occidentalism, Orientalism, and the idea of a postsecular Europe.’
9.30 - 19.00, Friday 30 October, 2009
Utrecht University, the Netherlands

The aim of this day-long workshop was to discuss from different intellectual traditions and perspectives the idea of Europe as an imagined and actual space. It explored in particular the relationship between ‘Occidentalism, Orientalism, and the idea of a postsecular Europe' by going beyond the reactionary notion of a threatened Europe, a notion on which some, unduly inflexible concepts of Occidentalism (e.g. as a ‘war on the West') depend. In moving beyond the ossified concepts of Occident and the Orient, the workshop aimed to clear a space to look at postcolonial Europe in terms of a non-binary understanding of European social, cultural and political forms.

In the morning the workshop engaged with the thinking of the prominent Jewish philosopher Avishai Margalit and of postcolonial scholar Paul Gilroy. In the afternoon cultural historian Luisa Passerini (Turin University, Italy) went in dialogue with continental philosopher Simon Glendinning. In the late afternoon speakers for the network and other invited guests presented their own vision on the suggested theme in the form of short papers and/or responses to the keynote addresses.

Organiser: Sandra Ponzanesi, staff Wired Up
(In collaboration with the Centre for the Humanities, the Graduate Gender Programme and the Institute for History and Culture, Utrecht University, NL)

Koen, phd student Wired Up, presented a paper called "Online social networking sites as spaces of conviviality? Dutch-Moroccan youth on Hyves" at this conference.

Abstract:
In this paper I want to explore to what extent online social networking sites can be understood as spaces of conviviality. Through typing, clicking, hypertextual linking, ‘friending’ and circulating texts and videos, social network site users produce social spaces and perform their individuality in the midst of the increasingly grim political and societal atmosphere of racialization and Islamophobia in the postcolonial centers of Fortress Europe. I will zoom in on expressions of diaspora and youth cultural affiliations of Dutch-Moroccan youth circulating in the Dutch social networking site Hyves. My inspiration stems from Paul Gilroy’s writing on youth cultures, diaspora and the notion of conviviality. First, Gilroy stated that youth cultures may offer potential for contesting “ethnic absolutism, racism and nationalism” (1993b) on the basis of their glocal, hybrid and transnational orientations. Second, in his work on the Black Atlantic, he discussed “the changing same”, illuminating the complex relationship “between ethnic sameness and differentiation” (1993a; xi). The “changing same” hints at diaspora identities as unfinished processes of becoming, at the crossroads of “roots” and “routes”. Finally, the term “conviviality” offers a way to grasp interactional processes that render “multiculture an ordinary feature of social life” (2004; xi). I want to see whether this vocabulary is helpful in achieving greater understanding of Dutch-Moroccan youth as content creators and circulators in hypermediated environments.

For additional information, click here.

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GLOCAL IMAGINARIES
WRITING / MIGRATION / PLACE

This is a conference taking place from 9 to 12 September in Lancaster University, and the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK.

With an interest in both the material and imaginative (re) configuration of location, mobility and migration in the early twenty-first century, the conference invites papers from colleagues working in the fields of geography, sociology, anthropology, politics, linguistics and history, as well as literature and creative writing, and the conference will be 'streamed' in such a way that delegates are able to participate either within, or across, disciplines.

Koen will be presenting his paper called "Migrant Youth Writing G/local Hypertextual Selves across Diasporas and Youth Cultures" at this conference. There's a 'stream' of sessions on 'networked diasporas' in which Koen will participate.

Click here for more information.

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The Wired Up team is happy to announce that Asli Ünlüsoy has been hired as a PhD candidate for the Wired Up project "Learning and socialisation, new media and migrant youth".

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Wired Up is looking for an AIO for a project on "The digital literacy practices of immigrant youth for the formation of identity and learning networks" (0.9 fte)

Wij zoeken een excellente en enthousiaste onderzoeker met een Master in de Sociale Wetenschappen, met kennis van en/of ervaring met de volgende gebieden: jeugd, leren en ontwikkeling, technologie, media studies, culturele diversiteit, migratie, studies van sociale netwerken, nieuwe geletterdheid (new literacy), internet cultuur en sociale geografie. Een research master heeft onze voorkeur.

Verder vragen wij:
-ervaring met onafhankelijk uitvoeren van onderzoek;
-training in zowel kwalitatieve als kwantitatieve onderzoeksmethoden, in het bijzonder training in interpretatieve methoden;
-affininiteit met theoretische en empirische benaderingen;
-bereidheid om in een interdisciplinair, internationaal team te werken;
-ervaring met diverse internet toepassingen;
-uitstekende taalvaardigheid in het Nederlands (absolute vereiste);
-excellente schrijfvaardighied in het Engels;
-kennis van de Spaanse taal, Marokkaans Arabisch of Berber strekt tot de aanbeveling;
-in principe bereidheid om een aantal maanden in de VS door te brengen voor onderzoeksdoeleinden.

Inlichtingen
Voor meer informatie over deze vacature kunt u contact opnemen met Dr. Kevin Leander e-mail: kevin.leander@vanderbilt.edu of prof. dr. Mariëtte de Haan: M.deHaan@uu.nl, telefoon (030) 253 7735.
Een beschrijving van het onderzoeksproject is verkrijgbaar bij mevrouw J. de Jong, tel. (030) 253 2012, e-mail: J.F.deJong@uu.nl.

Solliciteren
Uw sollicitatie in het Engels, vergezeld van een curriculum vitae en indien relevant, een lijst van publicaties, kunt u vóór 19 juni 2009 uitsluitend per e-mail sturen aan: PenO.FSW@uu.nl.

Wanneer u solliciteert naar deze functie vermeld dan altijd het vacaturenummer 69934 en refereert u alstublieft aan deze website.

De werkzaamheden zullen op 1 september 2009 aanvangen.

Zie ook de Universiteit Utrecht vacature site en de advertentie op Academic Transfer

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Wired Up team members Mariëtte de Haan and Jeroen Moes will be participating in the EU Kids Online conference taking place Thursday June 11th 2009 at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK.

This concerns an international one-day conference for researchers, policy makers, industry, educators, NGOs and government to address the policy issues and research findings about children and the internet.

The conference will focus on European research on cultural, contextual and risk issues regarding children and the internet. It will report the final results and recommendations from three year’s work by the EU Kids Online network of 60 researchers in 21 countries funded by the EC Safer Internet plus Programme. It will also showcase the latest current research in Europe and Worldwide.

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Wired Up team members Sandra Ponzanesi and Koen Leurs will be participating in the 7th European Feminist Research Conference. This conference, entitled "Gendered Cultures at the Crossroads of Imagination, Knowledge and Politics" will be taking place from June 04 until June 07 at Utrecht University.

Sandra Ponzanesi will be the referent for a keynote speech that will be deliverd by Prof. dr. Anne McClintock on "Paranoid Empire: Specters Beyond Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib", Thursday, 04 June 2009 from 5.15 pm onwards in room Theatron. Also she will chair a session on "Cyberspace and gender", Saturday, 06 June 2009 at 9.00 am in Room C (Ruppert Building) and a session on the same day on "What is left of National Identities? European Perspectives on Migration and the Cultural Consumption of Alterity" from 2.45 pm in Room 033 (Ruppert Building).

In a session on "Cyberspace and gender", Koen Leurs will be presenting his paper entitled "Migrant youth & online hypertext: multiple modes of becoming/belonging", Saturday, 06 June 2009 at 9.00 am in Room C (Ruppert Building). Also on this day, he will chair a session on "Migration and Representation", from 4.30 pm in Room 114 (Ruppert Building).

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Wired Up team member Koen Leurs will be presenting his paper entitled "Be(com)ing cyber Mocro's. Digital media, migration and glocalized youth cultures" at the Race, Ethnicity and (New) Media symposium held at the Race & Ethnic Studies Insitute, Texas A&M University. This symposium is taking place from April 30 until May 2, 2009.

Abstract:
In this paper an attempt is made to unravel processes of online identification by looking at circulated pictures and created hyperlinks. The practices found online display an ongoing construction of heterogeneous and differential selves - that operate beyond the binary of global and local contexts - as they emphasize different loyalties and affiliations. Dutch-Moroccan youth were shown to make the Internet a Mocro place, by claiming a space where they can be Mocro and perform being Mocro. This concerns a bottom-up construction of ethnicity through the consumption and production of imageries and links that are often not either global or local but both. The examples explored in this paper draw our attention to the discontinuous, localized and unpredictable ways of how circulating cultural resources are creatively put in use by migrant youth. What we get from the graphical narratives of self – the user-generated avatars uploaded online - is that there are many imagined, instable dimensions shaping the cultural identification of Dutch-Moroccan youth.

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In Dutch: Kind van nu neemt rol volwassene over

Door globalisering en toenemend mediagebruik, leven kinderen in een grotere wereld dan hun ouders. Daardoor neemt het kind soms de rol van volwassene over. Dit betoogt prof.dr. Mariëtte de Haan, bijzonder hoogleraar Sociale en affectieve vorming van jeugdigen, in haar oratie op vrijdag 27 februari: ‘Opvoeden in een veranderende wereld’. Het idee dat een kind in een stabiele, in te richten wereld leeft die de opvoeder kan controleren, bestaat volgens De Haan niet meer. Dit geldt ook voor internetgedrag van kinderen.

Read full Utrecht University press report (in Dutch)
For more pictures, click here.

Academiegebouw, Utrecht University

Celebrations at the Winkel van Sinkel, Utrecht.

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27 februari 2009, 16:15 uur
Locatie: Academiegebouw, Domplein 29, Utrecht

In Dutch:
Op vrijdag 27 februari houdt prof.dr M. de Haan een oratie over opvoeden in een tijd van toegenomen migratie en intensief gebruk van nieuwe media.

Cultuuroverdracht in een wereld in beweging
Hoe wordt cultuuroverdracht beïnvloed door toegenomen migratie en intensief gebruik van nieuwe media? Mariëtte de Haan gaat in haar oratie na wat de implicaties zijn van het feit dat er bij de digitale generatie sprake is van een toegenomen connectiviteit (interlokaal maar ook transnationaal) en een verhoogd contact met sociale werelden op afstand. Verschillen de referentiewerelden van ouders en kinderen hierdoor te veel om de opvoeding effectief te laten zijn? Of moeten we juist onze hoop stellen op de ‘connected family' die juist door de mobiele communicatie zijn activiteiten synchroniseert? De Haan gaat in bredere zin in op het probleem van culturele reproductie in een wereld in beweging, waarbij zij zowel ingaat op de opvoeding in migrantengezinnen als op de opvoeding in middenklassegezinnen als gevolg van het digitale tijdperk.

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Jeroen Moes has been hired as a PhD candidate for the Wired Up project "Learning and socialisation, new media and migrant youth".

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Wired Up attended the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR) "Internet Research 9.0 Conference. Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place". This conference took place from October 16-18 at the IT University in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Wired Up attended the London School of Economics and Political Science fifth anniversary conference "Media, Communication and Humanity". This conference took place from September 21st-23rd in London, United Kingdom.

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Wired Up attended the KNAW-symposium "Identity in Virtual Worlds", held September 18 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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A number of Wired Up team members, dr. Kevin Leander, prof. dr. Mariëtte de Haan, Nina ter Laan and Koen Leurs, attended the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR) 2008 conference "Ecologies of Diversities. The developmental and historical interarticulation of human mediational forms" in San Diego at the University of California, San Diego and the University of San Diego from September 8 - 13, 2008.
The Wired Up team participated in the symposium "Youth Migrants and Digital Literacies in Transnational Contexts” together with Eva Lam (assistant professor Northwestern University), Lisa Patel Stevens (assistent professor Lynch school of Education, Boston College), Rebecca W. Black (Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at the University of California, Irvine). Additionally, Nina ter Laan and Koen Leurs held a poster presentation.

Kevin Leander introducing the conceptual approaches of Wired Up,
in the symposium "Youth Migrants and Digital Literacies in Transnational Contexts”.


Nina ter Laan and Koen Leurs held a poster presentation entitled:
"Migrant youth, cyberspace & 'the well' of transnational symbolic vocabulary".
Download the poster here (.pdf, 736 kb).

Mariette de Haan, Nina ter Laan, Koen Leurs and Kevin Leander.
Picture taken at the UCSD Birch Acquarium.

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Several Wired Up team members (prof. dr. Mariëtte de Haan, Marieke Slootman and Koen Leurs) attended the International Conference for the learning science (ICLS) 2008 conference "International Perspectives in the Learning Sciences. Cre8ing a learning world" held from June 23 - June 28 at the Utrecht University Uithof campus.

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Today, June 15, 2008, the new Wired Up website was published online. Feel free to navigate our contents. From today onwards, the site will be updated regularly with work-in-progress papers, talks etcetera.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome, see the "contact" header for more details.

Wired Up Staff members:
Porf. dr M.J. de Haan (UU, Social Sciences) Dr S. Ponzanesi (UU, Humanities)
Dr K.M. Leander (International Partner, Education and Human Development)

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