| The Annenberg Research Seminar
on International Communication |
During academic year 2008-09, ARNIC is teaming up with its colleagues and neighbors at the Annenberg Research Park (members of the Viterbi School of Engineering, the School of Cinematic Arts, and the Annenberg School for Communication), to co-sponsor the weekly
Annenberg Research Park Colloquium
We meet in Kerckhof Hall every Tuesday at 11:00am for a talk, followed by a discussion over lunch and possible extended conversation with the speakers until 1:00pm (or longer, if desired...).
Consult the full schedule for the ARP Colloquium. Below are the specific ARNIC events.
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| 2008-2009 Schedule |
| Tuesday October 14th |
"Rebooting after the economic crash: IT, ET and America 3.0."
Jonathan Taplin (ASC and ARNIC)
[more info (includes video and slides)]
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| Tuesday September 30th |
"Migrants and New Media: Comparing Generations, Language Communities and Technology Uses in the U.S. and Portugal"
Joseph D. Straubhaar, University of Texas at Austin
and
"Virtual Worlds Technology: Mediating the Educational Experience in Brazil and Mozambique."
Jeremiah Spence, University of Texas at Austin
[more info(includes video)]
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| 2007-2008 Schedule |
Monday April 7th
12:00-1:00pm, ASC 240 |
Mobile technology appropriation in a distant mirror: Baroque infiltration, creolization and cannibalism
François Bar, Francis Pisani and Matt Weber
[more info] [slides] [video] |
Tuesday April 1st
2:00-3:30pm
KER |
Understanding Broadband from the Outside
Ricardo Ramírez
Freelance researcher and consultant, adjunct professor at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
[more info]
[slides]
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Monday Oct 1st
12:00-1:00pm
room 240
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Mobile Kills the Telecenter Star
Helani Galpaya, LIRNEasia's Director of Strategic Development
[more info ] [slides] |
Thursday Oct 18th
1:00-2:00pm
Room ASC 207 |
Community Radio in Africa
Bill Siemering, President of Developing Radio Partners (and creator of "All Things Considered")
[more info]
[video from seminar: fast connection - slow connection ]
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Thursday Nov. 8th
1:00-2:00pm |
Net Neutrality on the Internet
Nicholas Economides, Professor Stern School of Business, NYU
Executive Director, NET (Network, E-Commerce, and Telecommunications) Institute ( http://www.NETinst.org/)
[presentation slides and video] |
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| Fall 2005 Schedule |
| Note: Some of our 2005 seminar meetings are co-sponsored with the "Networked Publics" program, at the Annenberg Center, and we will occasionally meet at the Annenberg Center (map) |
Sep 8th
2:00-3:30pm
ASC 230 |
The Wi-Fi's Promise and Broadband Divides:
Reconfiguring public Internet Access in Austin, Texas [PPT Slides (6.7Mb)]
Martha Fuentes-Bautista
Doctoral candidate, UT Austin |
TUESDAY
Sep 13th
2:00-3:30pm
Annenberg Center |
Emergency Communications and the Impact of Hurricane Katrina [abstract]
Michael Kleeman
Cyber
Infrastructure Policy Research Director, Cal(IT)2, UC San Diego
National Chair of Strategy, American Red Cross
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Sep 29th
2:00-3:30pm
ASC 230 |
When dirt and digits collide: lessons from the intersection of content,communications and computing [abstract]
Pierre De Vries
former Sr. Director for Advanced Technology and Policy, Microsoft
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Oct 27th
2:00-3:30pm
Annenberg Center |
The Geospatial Web and Mobile Service Ecologies [abstract]
Michael Liebhold
Senior Researcher,
The Institute for the Future |
Nov 9th
2:30-4:00pm
Annenberg Center
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The Longer Tail [abstract]
Chris Anderson
Editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine. |
Past Seminars: |
| Spring 2005 Schedule |
| Feb 17th |
How do we link ICT4D research to practice? A discussion [abstract - PPT Slides (4.6Mb)]
Raul Roman
Research Associate at the Center for Internet Studies, University of Washington at Seattle |
| Mar 31st |
Adopting E-Government Strategies in East Africa: Prospects and Challenges [abstract]
Janet Kaaya
PhD Candidate,
UCLA
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Apr 7th
|
Spatial immobility, social exclusion and mobile phone use among low income families in Santiago , Chile [abstract]
Sebastian Ureta, PhD Candidate, London School of Economics
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Apr 14th
CANCELLED |
Supporting research on ICTs for development (ICT4D) in developing countries: better understanding how ICTs can be used for socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America [abstract]
Richard Fuchs, Steve Song, and Laurent Elder, IDRC (http://web.idrc.ca)
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| Apr 28th |
The Evolution Toward Next-Generation Mobile Communications
[ abstract ]
Johannes Bauer
Professor,
Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media, Michigan State University
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| Fall 2004 Schedule |
| Dec 2nd |
Metro-scale cellular Wi-Fi
Devabhaktuni "Sri" Srikrishna, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Tropos Networks
Presentation slides [PPT - 3.03Mb] |
| Nov 18th |
Social Uses of Wireless Communications: The Mobile
Information Society
Manuel Castells, Jack Qiu and Araba Sey - USC Annenberg |
| Oct 28th |
The Connexions Project - Building Communities and Sharing Knowledge
Richard
Baraniuk - Rice University
Presentation slides [PDF-1.5M] |
| Oct 7th |
Leap into the Future: The OptIPuter and Ultimate Broadband
Larry
Smarr, Director, Cal(IT)2,
and Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Jacobs School
of Engineering, UCSD |
| Sep 23rd |
Competition Policy in Communications: A departure from sector-specific
regulation
Natascha Just, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Annenberg Research Network
on International Communication |
| Sep 16th |
Ten Years / Ten Trends
Jeffrey Cole, USC
Annenberg Center for the Digital Future
Powerpoint
Slides |
| Spring
2004 Schedule |
| Feb 5th |
Does Wireless Rebellion Scale?
Christian
Sandvig, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Feb 19th |
Mode of Foreign Entry, Technical Compatibility,
and FDI policy for Telecommunications Networks
Mikhail
Klimenko, UC San Diego, Graduate School of International
Relations and Pacific Studies. slides
paper at: http://www2-irps.ucsd.edu/faculty/mklimenko/home.html |
| Mar 11th |
Cyber Diplomacy: How Online Communications And Gaming Impact International Relations And Public Diplomacy Intitiatives
J.C. Herz |
| Apr 14th |
The Success of Open Source
Steven
Weber, UC Berkeley, Dept of Political Science |
| Apr 22nd |
From weapons to cell phones: networks of knowledge
in the formation of San Diego's Wireless Valley
Caroline
Simard, Stanford University |
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May 6th
|
Internet use in Rio de Janeiro's favelas: How many,
who, where, and for what?
Bernardo Sorj, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Fall
2003 Schedule |
| Sept 17th |
Wireless Networks and Community Development:
a Discussion of Research Strategies
Hernan Galperin (USC Annenberg) and Francois Bar (USC Annenberg)
Related documents:
- Wireless
& Community Development Research Proposal (PDF - 110K)
- Wireless
Ad-Hoc Networks: Understanding Chaotic Communication Infrastructure
- NSF proposal excerpt (PDF - 431K) |
| Oct 1st |
China and the Internet: Technologies of Freedom
in a Statist Network Society
Jack Linchuan Qiu (Doctoral Candidate, USC Annenberg)
Background reading:
Jack Qiu, The Internet
in China: Data and Issues Oct 2003 (PDF 89K) |
| Oct 15th |
Institutional Models of Information Society: a
Comparison between Silicon Valley and Finland
Pekka
Himanen (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, and
Director, Berkeley Center for the Information Society) |
| Oct 22nd |
Peer Sharing Meets Business Strategies
Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Law School) |
| Nov 5th |
The Political Economy of Intellectual Property
Rights
Jonathan Aronson (USC Annenberg) |
| Nov 19th |
WiFi in the Triad - UK, US and South Korean Experiences
with Public Access Wireless Local Area Networks in the 2.4GHz
Band
Christopher
Marsden, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
(UK)
PowerPoint
slides from the presentation |
Dec 4th
|
Analytical Models for the Evaluation of Information
Societies
Robin Mansell (Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet, LSE) |
