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 Recent News Release 11 August 2009 Mapping Online Publics: Language, Politics and Culture in the Global Blogosphere
30 May 2009 Call for papers - ICTs and Development: An International Workshop for Theory, Practice, & Policy. Period: 11-12 March, 2010 Unpublished, original empirical papers are invited for the forthcoming international workshop on ICTs and Development: The workshop aims to provide a forum for scholars to share their empirical research with academic experts, policymakers, and activists from the regional and international development community. Papers should examine how mobile phones, computers, and the Internet influence the empowerment of marginal individuals and communities, including whether ICTs create and enhance livelihood opportunities for people in the developing world. Papers should be in the range of 5,000-8,000 words (including abstract and bibliography) and should include a clear discussion of the implications of the findings for development policy and/or practice. No more than twelve papers will be selected by the workshop organizers for presentation.The first author of each paper chosen will be given air fare and lodging/meals. The workshop is part of the project, ICTs and Urban Micro Enterprises: The organizers are committed to finding an appropriate publication venue for all papers accepted for the workshop. Deadlines: For submission of manuscripts and other enquiries, please write to ICTD2010@gmail.com. 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.
School bookings: Cap of 15 participants per school or junior college. To register: "Blogging Workshop" For more details, please visit the website. 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/ Author instructions are available at: http://ictd2009.org/submissions.html The ICTD2009 Conference will be held 17-19 April 2009 in Doha, Qatar (http://www.ictd2009.org). This conference will act as a focal point for new scholarship in the field of ICT and international development. Confirmed speakers include a keynote by Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation. We aim to provide funding for attendance of one author of each paper accepted for oral presentation at the conference. We are working to raise additional sponsorship to cover attendance of other participants, with priority given to students and participants from developing countries. Submission is closed. 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. The CMM was recently publicized by The Center for Innovation in College Media (www.collegemediainnovation.org), a leading new media organization for student journalism, and now is a permanent fixture/link on the site. In addition, the blog is being added to the "Blog Central" section of the Web site for College Media Advisers Inc. (www.collegemedia.org), the leading organization overseeing student media operations in the U.S. 1 September 2008 Welcome, Dr Daniel Reimold, SiRC Visiting Fellow 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.
As a Scripps Howard Teaching Fellow at Ohio, he led undergraduate reporting, editing, and introductory media courses and served as the adviser for Speakeasy Magazine, a daily-updated online student news outlet. He is a two-time Great Ideas for Teachers (GIFT) Scholar within the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC); a recipient of the 2007 Ohio University Graduate Associate Outstanding Teaching Award; and the graduate student winner of the 2007 AEJMC "Promising Professors" honor. He previously received his master's degree in journalism from Temple University and worked for several newspapers in greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he earned the paper's first Ralph Vigoda Memorial Award for passion in journalism. His current passion is research related to student media. Refereed research papers he has authored or co-authored have been published in Newspaper Research Journal, Journalism History, and College Media Review and accepted for presentation at numerous conferences, including the International Symposium on Online Journalism and the AEJMC national convention. 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, will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the River East Art Center in Chicago. Organized by New York Law School in conjunction with the MacArthur Foundation, the conference invites experts across disciplines to discuss philanthropy in virtual worlds. Virtual worlds are crucial building blocks of global civil society. As such, they harbor great potential for relationship building and cooperation across national borders. We hope you will join us for this important interdisciplinary conversation. Registration will be available shortly. 4 September 2007 Welcome, Andrade, Norberto Nuno, SiRC Visiting Scholar We extend a very warm welcome to Mr Norberto Andrade (SiRC Visiting Scholar) to WKWSCI. Norberto will be attached to the centre from now until mid-October 2007. He will be supervised by Asst Prof Marko Skoric during his time with us. Norberto Gomes de Andrade is a Portuguese Researcher pursuing a Doctoral degree at the Law Department of the European University Institute (EUI), in Florence, Italy. Norberto is currently studying the legal issues that emerge from new digital environments (popularly known as “Virtual Worlds”) and the implications deriving from the rise of this new social order for our understanding of law. His present work concerns the conceptualization of these social platforms, also designated as MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games), as legal orders. His areas of interest also cover legal informatics, telecommunications and computer law, in particular intellectual property and privacy issues. Within the EUI, Norberto is one of the co-founders and organizers of the “InfoSoc Working Group”, dealing with the legal, socio-political, historical and economic aspects of the Information Society. Norberto has worked previously as a legal expert at the External Relations Department of the Portuguese Regulatory Authority for Communications, in Lisbon, Portugal. A Law graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Norberto has also been awarded with a Master of Arts Degree in International Relations and European Studies by the Central European University, in Budapest, Hungary. 1 August 2007 SiRC Visiting Scholar from Australia Natalie Pang is a PhD candidate in Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology. Her research is an interdisciplinary study of cultural institutions in the contemporary media environment, and investigates the effectiveness of participatory design approaches to guide stakeholder participation in communities. Her other research and teaching interests include user-centred design, information management, usability evaluations, digital libraries, and applying open content licenses such as the Creative Commons to communities and cultural institutions. A graduate of Melbourne University in Australia and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Natalie has worked in Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia. An active contributor and member of the P2P Foundation (http://blog.p2pfoundation.net), she is also an Honorary Research Associate of Museum Victoria and Research Fellow of the Centre for Community Networking and Research, Monash University in Australia. 12 July 2007 2007 World Internet Project Annual Partners' Meeting 10-12 July SiRC Executive Director, Professor Eddie C Y Kuo, and Associate Professor Alfred Choi presented their paper on Bridging the Digital Divide: Case of the Malay Community in Singapore. For more information on the conference, click here. 28 March 2007 Germany Professor Joining SCI
Prof. Marcel Machill graduated with a PhD in media policy and media economy in the University of Dortmund, completing a thesis on the topic "French Media and Language Policy". Before becoming a university professor in University of Leipzig in 2002, Marcel Machill was Head of the Department of Media Policy at the Bertelsmann Foundation, where he was responsible for International Media Politics and Science Journalism. He also worked as a journalist in both print and electronic media. Prof. Marcel Machill has published in many renowned scientific and technical journals (for ex., the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, The European Journal of Communication, The Journal of Media Economics). He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Journalism Practice, the new scholarly international journal published by Routledge. He is currently teaching CS225 IT and New Media and CS446 Communication Issues in Singapore and Asia in Sem 2 and CS802 Social Issues in Science and Technology during the Special Term. 6 February 2007 PRC Professor Joining SiRC as Visiting Fellow We extend a warm welcome to Dr. Kou Jihong who has just joined SiRC as a Visiting Fellow. Dr. Kou is an Associate Professor from Wuhan University, Wuhan, PRC. Her main research interests include information and knowledge management, internet information mining and knowledge discovery, and information society. Sponsored by the Ministry of Education, PRC, Dr. Kou will be attached to SiRC for the period January- June 2007 to conduct a research project on "Informatization of Higher Education in China". 20-21 July 2006 Fourth Annual Chinese Internet Research Conference The Singapore Internet Research Center is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the fourth Chinese Internet Research Conference this year. 15-18 June 2006ICA 2006 Pre-Conference Workshop The aim of this preconference is to form a network of scholars to monitor the progress of and to research Internet Governance, with a special emphasis on the international aspects. For more details, please click here to visit the conference website. |
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Visiting Fellow Positions
The Singapore Internet Research Center is now offering Visiting
Fellow positions. A research fellowship typically runs between 4
to 12 weeks. Media InquiriesThe faculty experts from the Singapore Internet Research Centre are available for commentary on a variety of issues associated with the growth and impact of the Internet in Asia. For information, contact the individual faculty members or the executive director at sirc@ntu.edu.sg. ResourcesInternet in Asia Blog The researchers at the Singapore Internet Research Centre maintain a weblog focusing on new developments on the Internet across Asia. The Internet in Asia blog can be accessed here. |
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We extend a warm welcome to Professor Marcel Machill who has
joined the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
as a visiting professor from Feb 2007. Prof. Marcel Machill is
a tenured professor of journalism and international media systems
at the University of Leipzig in Germany.