• Soundfiles
• About the workshop
• Programme
• Lecture

 

Soundfiles

All the presentations as well as the discussions were recorded. You can get the soundfiles here.

About the workshop

James Slevin was one of the first scholars to publish a book that tries to embrace most of the aspects of the Internet: The Internet and Society (Polity 2000).

In this workshop we are going to take a closer look at a few of the positions presented in his work in order to initiate a hopefully fruitful discussion of the Internet, one of the most important contemporary media.

The workshop is open to everyone (preferably scholars), but the number of participants is limited to app. 25.

Fee: 150,00 DKR (lunch + 2 x cofee).
Please sign up at bep@imv.au.dk (first come, first serve).
Deadline for signing up: October 22nd 2001, 12:00

 

Programme

25 October 2001
Richard Mortensen Stuen, Studenternes Hus, Ndr. Ringgade, 8000 Århus C

09.00 Welcome

09.15 The Internet and Society — revisited

James Slevin, Associate Professor, the Amsterdam School of Communications Research, University of Amsterdam

10.00 The Materiality of the Internet, does it Matter?

Niels Brügger, Associate Professor, the Dept. of Information and Media Studies, the Centre for Internet Research, University of Aarhus

10.45 Coffee break

11.15 The Online Community as Organism

Henrik Bødker, Assistant Professor, the Dept. of Information and Media Studies, the Centre for Internet Research, University of Aarhus

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Perspectives on Internet and Modernity — Late Modernity, Postmodernity or Modernity Modernized?

Niels Ole Finnemann, Associate Professor, the Dept. of Information and Media Studies, the Centre for Internet Research, University of Aarhus

13.45 Coffee break

14.00 The Internet as a New Public Sphere? — Deliberative Democracy or Soundbite Culture

Jakob Linaa Jensen, PhD-student, The Dept. of Political Science, the Centre for Internet Research, University of Aarhus

Each presentation will be about 20-25 min. plus app. 20 minutes for discussion

Lecture

James Slevin also gives a lecture at The Department of Information and Media Studies.

The entrance is free, and no pre-signing is needed