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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. Added by KL. |
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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. Added by KL. |
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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 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 Added by KL. |
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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. Added by KL. |
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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: 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. Added by KL. |
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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.
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‘Occidentalism, Orientalism, and the idea of a postsecular Europe.’ 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. Organiser: Sandra Ponzanesi, staff Wired Up 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. For additional information, click here. Added by KL. |
GLOCAL IMAGINARIES 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. Added by KL. |
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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: Inlichtingen Solliciteren 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 Added by KL. |
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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. Added by KL. |
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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). Added by KL. |
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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: Added by KL. |
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In Dutch: Kind van nu neemt rol volwassene over
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27 februari 2009, 16:15 uur In Dutch: Cultuuroverdracht in een wereld in beweging Added by KL. |
Jeroen Moes has been hired as a PhD candidate for the Wired Up project "Learning and socialisation, new media and migrant youth". Added by KL. |
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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. Added by KL. |
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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. Added by KL. |
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Wired Up attended the KNAW-symposium "Identity in Virtual Worlds", held September 18 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Added by KL. |
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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.
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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: Added by KL. |