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30 September 2009 Call for Participation:
Ethical Guidance for Research and Application of
Pervasive and Autonomous Information Technology (PAIT) - March 3-4, 2010, Cincinnati, Ohio. Made possible by the National Science Foundation (grant number SES-0848097), Indiana University's Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, this two-day workshop will convene an international meeting of experts in PAIT, ethicists well versed in practical ethics, and other stakeholders. Please click here for more information. 22 September 2009 SiRC would like to invite applications for the SiRC Associate programme. The programme offers researchers and scholars the opportunity to be affiliated with a centre of excellence in research on the new media. The programme also facilitates research collaboration among local and international faculty. Please find more information below: 21 August 2009 The Impact of the World Wide Web on Society, 15 years later. A WKWSCI roundtable discussion with Distinguished Professors.
Please click here for more details. 11 August 2009 Mapping Online Publics: Language, Politics and Culture in the Global Blogosphere
Please click here for more details. 29 July 2009 Congratulations to Ms.Komathi A Le on receiving the SIRCA GRADUATE AWARD to pursue the Master of Communications programme at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. The Award valued at SGD 15,000 will commence from Academic Year AY2009/2010. 30 May 2009 Call for papers - ICTs and Development: An International Workshop for Theory, Practice, & Policy. Unpublished, original empirical papers are invited for the forthcoming international workshop on ICTs and Development to be conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India, during 11-12 March 2010. For more details, please click here or visit the website. 04 May 2009 Blogging: You've Got The Power (Now Learn The Craft): A full-day workshop in which accomplished bloggers and expert trainers reveal the writing and reporting skills, ethical issues, legal minefields and technological solutions for impactful and responsible blogging. If you already blog and are wondering how to go to the next level, this workshop will help accelerate your journey.
For more details, please click here or visit the website. 30 April 2009 The SIRCA programme is offering two graduate awards with the objective of providing support for master’s/PhD thesis research in the area of ICT for Development. This Award is open to all currently enrolled, and entering, students of the Master of Communication Studies/WKWSCI PhD programme by January 2010. All submissions must be made online to sirca@ntu.edu.sg by Tuesday 15th June, 2009 11:59 EST. Grant award results will be announced in late July 2009. For more details, please click here 20 April 2009 Two opportunities to enter global online competitions and to be showcased to a network of like-minded community members, funders, CSOs, thought leaders, universities, governments, and enthusiasts! 31 March 2009 Conference paper submissions for the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009) are due by 22ND SEPTEMBER 2008. As noted previously, we hope this will help provide an outlet for dissemination of IDRC-supported ICTD research in Asia. Submissions can be made via: http://ictd2009.confmaster.net/. Submission is closed. For more details, please click here 30 March 2009 Game effect workshop: Issues of identity, learning and young gamer Date: 2nd April 2009 For more details, please click here 13 March 2009 Congratulations to WKWSCI’s Asst Professor Vivian Chen Hsueh-hua in attaining $1.6M of award funding for the 3rd Call for Proposals under NRF's R&D Programme on IDM in Education! The Ministry of Education (MOE) received a total of 23 proposals from 3 Institutions of Higher Learning for the NRF’s R&D programme on IDM in Education, and only 5 proposals including Dr Chen’s were successful. For more detailed information, please click here (NRF Announcement). 10 December 2008 Dr Dan Reimold is a Fulbright research fellow currently serving as a visiting scholar with the Singapore Internet Research Centre(SiRC)at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He recently launched College Media Matters (www.collegemediamatters.com), a Web site/blog providing news and notes on everything that is influential, controversial, innovative, and newsworthy about modern college media, existing because they do matter and are not being talked about nearly enough. It is the only daily-updated blog of its kind. For more details, please click here 3 December 2008 The Institute for Journalism & Society (Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University) and The Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong are pleased to announce a call for papers to participate in their conference, The Changing World of International News in the 21st Century: The Impact of Digital Technology. This conference, taking place from 14 to 16 April 2009 in Hong Kong, seeks to bring together academics, journalists and others interested in the profession to discuss the effects of digitisation – satellites, web technology, optic fibre and wireless – on international news. For more details, please click here. 1 September 2008 We extend a very warm welcome to Dr Daniel Reimold (SiRC Visiting Fellow) to WKWSCI. He will be working with Dr Cherian George during his time with us. Daniel is a student journalism researcher working with SiRC during the 2008-09 academic year through a Fulbright Fellowship focused on the study of the contemporary Singaporean student and youth media. For more details, please click here. 26 August 2008 IDRC and SiRC are pleased to announce the maiden call for grant proposals under the new initiative SIRCA. The SIRCA Programme seeks to identify future research leaders and to facilitate their development through the support of research grants. The awards are intended to ensure capacities to conduct research in the area of Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D or ICTD) are built in Asia. Click here for more details 18 August 2008 New Media a key Focus in PM's National Day Rally Speech. Click here for more details. 20 June 2008 Seminar on Internet Regulatory Reform. This public forum was held on Saturday 21 June at 2pm. The seminar was part of Singapore's ongoing dialogue on internet policy and included presentations by independent bloggers. Click here for more details. 9 May 2008 State of Play is coming to Chicago! This year's State of Play, the only conference about the serious study of virtual worlds took place October 20-22, 2008, at the River East Art Center in Chicago. Click here for more details. 4 April 2008 The presentation slides of the Gatekeepers in a Digital Asian-European Media Landscape: The rising structural power of Internet search engines workshop are available for download. The photo gallery is also viewable. 6 February 2008 The Sixth Annual Chinese Internet Research Conference "China and the Internet: Myths and Realities", was hosted by the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong on 13-14 June 2008. Call for Papers is closed. Click here for more information. 17 January 2008 A workshop funded by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the Asia Alliance titled Gatekeepers in a Digital Asian-European Media Landscape: The rising structural power of Internet search engines was held in February 2008. Registration is closed. For more details, please click here. 16 January 2008 Professor Eddie Kuo retired from his role as Executive Director of SiRC in January 2008. Associate Professor Ang Peng Hwa took over as Centre Director. Professor Kuo continue to provide valuable support to the centre in his new role as Advisor to the SiRC. 25 September 2007 The SiRC invited Dr Jeffrey Ian Cole (Research Professor
Director, Center for Digital Future Annenberg School for Communication
University of Southern California) to present a seminar paper titled Just an Essential Part of Everyday Life: The Impact of the Internet on Friday 28th September 2007 1430-1600 @ Level 4 Conference Room (#04-48) 10 September 2007 An Asia-Europe Workshop funded by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the Asia Alliance titled Gatekeepers in a Digital Asian-European Media Landscape: The rising structural power of Internet search engines was held in February 2008. The workshop was a collaboration between Universität Leipzig and Nanyang Technological University. For details, please click here. 4 September 2007 We extended a very warm welcome to Mr Norberto Andrade (SiRC Visiting Scholar) to WKWSCI. Norberto was attached to the centre from until mid-October 2007. He was supervised by Asst Prof Marko Skoric during his time with us. For more details, please click here. 2 August 2007 The State of Play V – Building the Global Metaverse was held in Singapore, on 19-22 August 2007. The State of Play – Building the Global Metaverse 2007 was the fifth annual conference on the future of virtual worlds. Organised by New York Law School in conjunction with Trinity University, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School and Nanyang Technological University (CAPTEL, Nanyang Business School and SiRC, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information), this year’s conference invited experts across disciplines to discuss the transnational dimensions of the metaverse and the impact of virtual environment on Education, Law, Politics and Society. The hallmark of the conference was its multi-disciplinary perspective. For more details, please click here. |
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