Call for participation
Coming to Terms with 21st Century Practices: ICT, Competence and Cultural
change.
Dear colleagues,
the University of Oslo invites you to a conference to elaborate some of
the most current issues concerning ICT, competence and cultural change in
the 21st Century: November 22nd–23rd 2007. For more details about the
conference and the program see:
http://www.intermedia.uio.no/cmc2007
Registration is open from August 20th,.
Poster submission deadline is September 15th.
About the conference
The conference is based on the research program Competence and Media
Convergence (CMC) 2004-2007, which represents a cross-disciplinary group
of researchers from five university faculties: Arts, Law, Mathematics &
Natural Sciences, Education, and Social Sciences and their international
networks. This conference aims to sum up achievements from this program..
New types of competencies develop in a complex and highly differentiated
society. In brief, there is an increasing degree of specialization taking
place that demands systems for integrating new 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. Convergence is not a straightforward process, but it occurs
in parallel with divergent tendencies in specialized services, terminals
as and markets.
The research about Competence and Media Convergence will be addressed in
specific thematic as well as in cross-thematic sessions: Design, Learning
across Sites, Working Life, Media Convergence and Authority and Literacy.
There will be challenging key notes and invited research presentations. We
encourage poster presentations related to the different thematic tracks.
We invite you to join us for the CMC conference in Oslo November 22nd
-23rd, 2007, and look forward to fruitful discussions!
With regards
Program Committee
Trond Eiliv Hauge, Sten Ludvigsen, Dagny Stuedahl and Andreas Lund
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