Announcements

New Book: ARNIC co-founder Jonathan Aronson's new book (with Peter Cowhey of UCSD and now the Senior Counselor at USTR and a contribution by former official Don Abelson) has been published by MIT Press. The book, Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation is available for free download under a Creative Commons license at :  http://www.globalinfoandtelecom.org.  The authors would welcome your comments, criticisms, and corrections.

Recent Book, Edited by Hernan Galperin and Judith Mariscal,Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives, Practical Action Publishing/IDRC 2007

Recent Book, by Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez - Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu and Araba Sey: Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspertive, (MIT Press, 2006) [more info from MIT Press] Now available in Spanish

Recent Book, edited by Manuel Castells and Gustavo Cardoso: The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy (Washington DC: Johns Hopkins Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2006); also available in Portuguese as A sociedade em Rede: Do Conhecimento à Acção Política, Imprensa Nacional, Casa da Moeda, Lisboa , 2006. Includes chapters by Jonathan Taplin, Jeffrey Cole, Hernán Galperin and François Bar. (free download in both languages)

Recent Book, edited by Hernán Galperin and Judith Mariscal: Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives
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Research Notes:
Tsunami Field Notes – Phi Phi Island, Thailand
Seungyoon Lee, 23rd July – 28th July, 2005
Mobile Phones for Disaster Preparedness
Arul Chib & Seungyoon Lee, September 2005

Reviews
William Davies, of the Institute for Policy Research, reviews Hernán Galperin's New Television, Old Politics in New Media & Society 7(2)

Annenberg Research Seminar on International Communication

"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

Tuesday, Sept 30 /08, 1100-12:00
Kerckhoff Hall - 1st floor
[map: from the Anneneberg School to Kerkchoff]

Abstracts:

"Migrants and New Media: Comparing Generations, Language Communities and Technology Uses in the U.S. and Portugal"

This talk will examine several years of research in East and South Austin,
which focused on how migrants from Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America,
are using media, particularly new media (Internet, cell phones) to adapt to
life in the USA, make new local communities, maintain community with people
back "home" and adjust to the emerging central role of these technologies in
American life. The talk will discuss comparable research about immigrants
from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Brazil in Portugal, as well as a new
project comparing the U.S. and Portugal.

"Virtual Worlds Technology: Mediating the Educational Experience in Brazil and Mozambique"

This talk will examine developing projects in Brazil and Mozambique that
propose to utilize virtual worlds technology to augment the distance
education capacity and student experience in on-going education.  The talk
will include an examination of the evolving nature of the concepts of
virtual worlds, metaverse, open architecture virtual worlds, and
telepresence/presence.

Video from the seminar (creative commons source video available at archive.org):

Slides from Straubhaar's presentation:

 

Joe Staubhaar - Annenberg Research Park Colloquium - Sep 30 2008
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