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Coming to terms with 21st century practices:
ICT, competence and cultural change
Dear colleagues,
The University of Oslo invites you to a high quality conference on some of the most current issues concerning ICT, competence and cultural change in the 21st century. We are questioning how we are coming to terms with new social and cultural practices involving new information and communication technologies.
The overall scope of the conference is based on the strategic research initiative, Competence and Media Convergence (CMC) 2003-2007. CMC is a cross-disciplinary group of researchers with participants from five University faculties: Arts, Law, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Education, and Social Sciences. The interdisciplinary research centre InterMedia is coordinating the CMC activities.
Challenging questions about competence and media convergence will be discussed at this CMC conference: New types of competence develop in a complex and highly differentiated society. In brief, there is an increasing degree of specialization taking place that demands systems for integrating different types of competencies. As actors in society, we participate in many different contexts as we move between various arenas in everyday life, institutions and networks involving work and learning processes. A central challenge of contemporary society is thus the challenge to cross borders between everyday life and institutional arenas.
Convergence appears in technology-related changes and shifting boundaries between telecommunication, information systems, and media technologies. It reflects how previously distinct sectors have become integrated; networks are no longer technology specific, and there is steady change in services and content. However, convergence is not a straightforward process. Instead, convergence occurs in parallel with divergent tendencies in specialized services, terminals as and markets.
Research in these areas has included a large number of CMC projects which have been aligned international networks during 2003 – 2007. We invite researchers both from these networks and others to present theoretical perspectives and empirical results from recent research and to discuss these findings as well as future scenarios. The research should be addressed in five conference tracks: Design, Learning across sites, Working Life, Media Convergence and Authority and Literacy.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Oslo 22-23. November 2007.
With regards
Program Committee
For more information about the tracks and research themes see: Design, Learning across sites, Working Life, Media Convergence, Autorithy and Literacy.
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→ TRACKS
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→ PROGRAM COMMITTEES
Coming to terms with 21st century practices:
ICT, competence and cultural change
Dear colleagues,
The University of Oslo invites you to a high quality conference on some of the most current issues concerning ICT, competence and cultural change in the 21st century. We are questioning how we are coming to terms with new social and cultural practices involving new information and communication technologies.
The overall scope of the conference is based on the strategic research initiative, Competence and Media Convergence (CMC) 2003-2007. CMC is a cross-disciplinary group of researchers with participants from five University faculties: Arts, Law, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Education, and Social Sciences. The interdisciplinary research centre InterMedia is coordinating the CMC activities.
Challenging questions about competence and media convergence will be discussed at this CMC conference: New types of competence develop in a complex and highly differentiated society. In brief, there is an increasing degree of specialization taking place that demands systems for integrating different types of competencies. As actors in society, we participate in many different contexts as we move between various arenas in everyday life, institutions and networks involving work and learning processes. A central challenge of contemporary society is thus the challenge to cross borders between everyday life and institutional arenas.
Convergence appears in technology-related changes and shifting boundaries between telecommunication, information systems, and media technologies. It reflects how previously distinct sectors have become integrated; networks are no longer technology specific, and there is steady change in services and content. However, convergence is not a straightforward process. Instead, convergence occurs in parallel with divergent tendencies in specialized services, terminals as and markets.
Research in these areas has included a large number of CMC projects which have been aligned international networks during 2003 – 2007. We invite researchers both from these networks and others to present theoretical perspectives and empirical results from recent research and to discuss these findings as well as future scenarios. The research should be addressed in five conference tracks: Design, Learning across sites, Working Life, Media Convergence and Authority and Literacy.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Oslo 22-23. November 2007.
With regards
Program Committee
For more information about the tracks and research themes see: Design, Learning across sites, Working Life, Media Convergence, Autorithy and Literacy.
→ PROGRAM SCHEDULE
→ TRACKS
→ KEYNOTES
→ PROGRAM COMMITTEES