2nd International Symposium in Media Informatics - "Cow Paths: Agency in Social Software"

2nd International Symposium in Media Informatics - "Cow Paths: Agency in Social Software"

Location:	Germany
Conference Date:	2006-11-16 (Archive)
Date Submitted:	2006-09-19
Announcement ID:	152784

The second international symposium on perspectives in media informatics brings together researchers and practitioners from media informatics, sociology, ANT, law, media theory, social software, collaborative work and learning, to discuss current trends and emergent issues of sociality in digital networks in a mixture of invited talks, workshops and round table events. Social software - often connected to older forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) and newer discussion about online communities - can be defined as software that supports activities in digital social networks. The use of new digital media tools such as blogs, wikis, tagging and other communicative or multimedia assets create new challenges for interdisciplinary research in media informatics.

What are the effects when media get agency in digital networks?

How can we trace and understand collective processes on the internet?

What is the role of visualisation?

What is the role of social software on change processes in organisations?

Are there new models of labour, new processes and new forms of organisations possible?

Will users be empowered or will lack of data protection and privacy set free new genies?

What is the impact of tools supporting social structures on the emancipation 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 lead to cow paths where only cows walk by?

The symposium on perspectives is organized jointly by the two leading collaborative research centres for media 'Media and cultural communication' and 'Medienumbrueche', the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology B-IT, and the Network of Excellence on technology enhanced professional learning PROLEARN.

Symposium Chairs
Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University, SFB/FK 427)
Volker Wulf (University of Siegen, Fraunhofer FIT, SFB/FK 615)

Organizing Committee
Erika Linz (B-IT Bonn)
Marc Spaniol (RWTH Aachen University, SFB/FK 427)
Michael Veith (University of Siegen, SFB/FK 615)

Technical Organizer
Reinhard Linde (RWTH Aachen University)

Date: Thursday, Nov 16, 2006, 13:00 - Friday, Nov 17, 2006, 16:00

Venue: B-IT Center, Bonn, Germany

Register online at: http://www.medien-informatik.eu/MI-2006/MI-2006-registration before November 11, 2006 and get a 50€ discount!

Programme
For programme details please visit: http://www.medien-informatik.eu/MI-2006/MI-2006_programme

Thursday, November 16, 2006 - Invited Talks:

Pictures of Traces of Places, People, and Groups: Recent Work from the Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group
Marc Smith (Microsoft Research, Redmond)

Software Development Teams: Tracing, Visualizing, and Understanding Collective Processes on the Internet
Anabel Quan-Haase (The University of Western Ontario)

Rethinking Social Software
Erhard Schüttpelz (University of Siegen)

The Media in the Age of Citizen Journalists
Frank Kappe (TU Graz)

Public Talk in the Informatics Year - Science Year 2006 (http://www.informatikjahr.de)
Interactive TV: From one way communication to software-based collaboration?
Thomas Becker (Marketing Director & Group Executive Digital Home, Buhl Data Service GmbH)

Research and innovation policy in NRW
Dr. Michael Stückrath, Secretary of State, Ministry for Innovation, Science, Research, and Technology NRW

Reception

Friday, November 17, 2006 - Workshops/Round Table:

Workshop 1: Applying Social Software for Knowledge Management
Claudia Müller - University of Potsdam / Mohamed Amine Chatti - RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Workshop 2: User Generated Content & User Generated Metadata
Ines Puntschart (Know-Center, Graz, Austria) and Mathias Lux (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)

Workshop 3: Impact of Social Software on Society: PROWalk Event
Barbara Kieslinger, Sebastian Fiedler, Centre for Social Innovation, Vienna, Austria

Workshop 4: Media and Conflict Studies
Michael Schnegg, University of Cologne / Ralf Klamma, SFB/FK 427

Round Table: Research Issues in Media Informatics
Volker Wulf (University of Siegen and SFB/FK 615)
Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen University and SFB/FK 427)
Marc Smith (Microsoft Research, Redmond)
Thomas Becker (Marketing Director & Group Executive Digital Home, Buhl Data Service GmbH)
Katja Henke (Deutsch Telekom Laboratories, Berlin)
Karl Gosejacob (Charles Bernd AG, Munich & Executive Director of the Software Group in VDMA)

Erika Linz, Marc Spaniol
Collaborative Research Center SFB/FK 427 "Media and Cultural Communication", University of Cologne and RWTH Aachen University
Bernhard-Feilchenfeldstr. 11, D-50969 Koeln
Phone: +49 241 8021514
Fax: +49 241 8022321
Email: info@medien-informatik.eu
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