Die Ausschreibung zum Summer Doctoral Programme des Oxford Internet Institute ist seit ein einigen Tagen veröffentlicht. Bewerbungen sind bis 21. Februar 2011 möglich, bevorzugt werden WissenschaftlerInnen, die mit ihren Dissertationen bereits weit fortgeschritten sind.
Das Summer Doctoral Programme findet alle zwei Jahre in Oxford statt, in den geraden Jahren wird der Kurs außerhalb von Großbritannien abgehalten. Bisherige Veranstaltungsorte waren Brisbane, Cambridge und Peking.
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Preparations have already started for the upcoming conference “Media Places”, that will take place at the HUMlab, Umeå University/ Sweden, 9-11 December 2010. Within the broader context of what has been labeled the “Digital Humanities” this conferences aims to investigate the interplay between media, technology and location. “A basic premise is that the social, cultural and spatial are deeply embedded, and that space is constantly structured and produced by those of who occupy it”, as may be read on the conference website. To approach phenomena at the intersection of media, technology and place the conference brings together cultural historians, architects, screen researchers, art and creative directors from digital media production industry, visualization experts, design researchers, sociologists, gender researchers, and game industry representatives. This broad range of scholars with different backgrounds shows the interdisciplinary dimension of topics the growing field of Digital Humanities deals with.
Details on the program and international guests from top-class institutions in the field of Digital Humanities may be found here. I’m already looking forward to an exciting three-day conference in the far north of Sweden 
Check out my review of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference on my blog. The conference took place in Gotheburg, 21-23 October. The review is not supposed to be a full review (6 parallel sessions are hard to follow simultaneously!). Rather, it’s very much biased by my interest in search engines and knowledge production, as well as my HUMlab affiliation. Unfortunately I didn’t hear Axel’s talk, sorry for that! Anyway, it’s worth reading I hope!
If you’re interested in search engine politics, civil society and digital future/s you may read this blog post on the SuMa conference, that took place in Berlin last week.
Enjoy & let me know what you think! 
Am kommenden Wochenende (24.-26.9.) findet in Leipzig die Konferenz Wikipedia – Ein Kritischer Standpunkt statt. „Ziel der Konferenz ist es, Wikipedia-ForscherInnen, KritikerInnen und Community-MitgliederInnen für eine produktive, interdisziplinäre Auseinandersetzung mit dem Mainstream-Wissensmedium Wikipedia zusammenzubringen“, so die VeranstalterInnen. Nachdem ich bereits bei der Vorläufer-Konferenz in Amsterdam einige interessante Beiträge hören konnte, freue ich mich nun darauf, viele Wikipedia-ForscherInnen aus der deutschsprachigen Community persönlich zu treffen und auch selbst einen kleinen Beitrag zum Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Wikipedia leisten zu dürfen. (Zum Thema siehe auch dieser Blog-Beitrag).
The Digital Media and Learning Conference is an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub <http://dmlcentral.net/about/what-all-about> at University of California, Irvine. The conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialog and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice.
The second conference will be held between March 3-5, 2011 at the Hilton Long Beach Conference and Meeting Center in Long Beach, California. The theme will be “Designing Learning Futures”. The Conference Chair will be Katie Salen. The conference committee includes Kimberly Austin, danah boyd, Sheryl Grant, Mark Surman, Trebor Scholz and S. Craig Watkins. Keynote presentations will be given by Alice Taylor and Muki Hansteen-Izora. We are also planning a book exhibit and technology demos.
To stay up-to-date on the conference, please check our website http://dmlcentral.net/conference2011, follow #DML2011 on twitter and/or join the Digital Media and Learning mailing list http://dmlhub.net/. See also Katie Salen’s announcement on DMLcentral http://dmlcentral.net/.
Centre for the Study of the United States, Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
Nov 12-14, 2010
A renewed emphasis on participatory forms of digitally-mediated production is transforming our social landscape. ‘Making’ has become the dominant metaphor for a variety of digital and digitally-mediated practices. The web is exploding with independently produced digital ‘content’ such as video diaries, conversations, stories, software, music, video games—all of which are further transformed and morphed by “modders,” “hackers,” artists and activists who redeploy and repurpose corporately-produced content. Equally, communities of self-organized crafters, hackers, and enthusiasts are increasingly to be found online exchanging sewing and knitting patterns, technical guides, circuit layouts, detailed electronics tutorials and other forms of instruction and support. Many of these individuals and collaborators understand their work to be socially interventionist. Through practices of design, development, and exchange they challenge traditional divides between production and consumption and to redress the power differentials built into technologically-mediated societies.
details: http://diycitizenship.com/
‘Media Brain’. Verändern neue Medien und Technologien unser Gehirn?
15. ernst mach forum, mittwoch, 28. april 2010, 18.00 uhr, ÖAW, Sonnenfelsgasse 19, 1010 Wien
Veranstaltungshomepage: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ikt/emf_detail.html
Die intensive Verwendung neuer Medien bewirkt kontinuierlich Veränderungen in der Funktion des menschlichen Gehirns. Für die Wissensgesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts verheißt die multimediale Vernetzung vielfältige Formen der Kommunikation und die Ausbildung neuer Fertigkeiten. Für den Einzelnen könnte diese Entwicklung aber auch Gefahren bergen, wenn sich Wirklichkeitsbezug und Beziehungsfähigkeit dadurch verändern. Sind diese Auswirkungen nur vorübergehend oder ist sogar eine neue Kluft zwischen den digitalen „Medien-Generationen“ zu befürchten? Read the rest of this entry »
4th Vienna Games Conference “Future and Reality of Gaming – F.R.O.G. 2010 – Abstract submission is now open.
Vienna’s annual Games Conference FROG, taking place from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 September 2010, offers an open and international platform for leading game studies researchers and scholars, game designers, education professionals and gamers from around the world. The main objective of FROG 10 is to explore the relations between gaming, society and culture and to discuss insights into how to think ahead and beyond common limits of theory and practice of game and play. Therefore the Call for abstracts and games focuses on the topic “GAME\\PLAY\\SOCIETY”. FROG 2010 is jointly organized by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth, the City of Vienna, wienXtra, the University of Vienna and the Danube-University Krems.
Abstract submission: 15 May 2010, weitere Infos auf: www.bupp.at/frog
Conference on Wikipedia by the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, 26-27 March 2010: program
The conference is part of a bigger Research Initiative dealing with Wikipedia: Besides setting up a network for critical Wikipedia research with its own mailing list and organizing two events early 2010 in Bangalore and Amsterdam (to start with), the aim is to gather materials for a Wikipedia Research Reader that will be published in the INC Reader series late 2010