Monday, May 4, 2009
Second International Workshop on Global Internet Governance
Second International Workshop on
Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction
Organized by GigaNet, in cooperation with ECREA IIC, CD and CLP Sections
Brussels, Belgium, 11 May 2009
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Campus Etterbeek, Building D,
Promotiezaal D.2.01
Participation is free of charge but registration is needed.
Registration form and other practical details at:
http://giganet.igloogroups.org/publiclibr/giganetcos/2009brusse
09:00-09:30 - Opening Session
- Welcoming Remarks by Workshop Co-Chair
Luciano Morganti, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- Presentation of the Workshop Organizers
Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)
European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
International and Intercultural Communication (IIC) section
Communication and Democracy (CD) section
Communication, Law and Policy (CLP) section
- Contributions and Program Overview by Workshop Co-Chair Meryem Marzouki, CNRS & University Pierre et Marie Curie, France
09:30-10:45 - Panel 1 - Power Dynamics in IG: Transformation or Consolidation?
This panel will discuss research activities dealing with global Internet governance actors and their power relationships. It will examine to which extent new power dynamics are actually emerging.
Chair: Leo Van Audenhove, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Panelists:
- Multi-Stakeholderism and Intra-Civil Society Networking: The case
of the WSIS IG-working group mailing list
Bart Cammaerts, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
- Negotiation and the Global Information Economy: Implications for
Internet Governance
JP Singh, Georgetown University (Washington DC), USA
- The governance of web standards. Economic struggles in the XML case
François-Xavier Dudouet, Université Paris 9 Dauphine, France
Benjamin Nguyen, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, France
Antoine Vion, Université de la Méditerranée, France
- Proceduralization, Agencification, and Privatization: Internet Governance’s Three Pillars and their Normative Consequences
Meryem Marzouki, CNRS & Université Paris 6 Pierre et Marie Curie,France
- Wars in Cyberspace : the recasting of military power in the digital age
Jean-Loup Samaan, French Ministry of Defense, France
10:45-11:15 - Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 - Panel 2 - Critical Internet
Resources and the Never- Ending ICANN Case This panel will focus on the global governance of critical Internet resources and will bring fresh views on ICANN role in this field.
Chair: JP Singh, Georgetown University (Washington DC), USA
Panelists:
- Work in progress in Internet governance: a proposed study on
ICANN’s opening for new gTLDs
Laura Abba, CNR, Pisa Institute for Informatics and Telematics, Italy
Stefano Trumpy, CNR, Pisa Institute for Informatics and Telematics, Italy
- The Governance of Internet Country Code Top Level Domains in Europe
George Christou, University of Warwick, UK
Seamus Simpson, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
- Administration and marketing of the ccTLD and its policy implications on Internet governance
Keisuke Kamimura, Center for Global Communications, International
University of Japan, Japan
- Internet Governance and Critical Resources
Rolf H. Weber, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Neo-Liberal Globalization and Internet Governance
Hangwoo Lee, Chungbuk National University, South Korea
13:45-15:00 - Panel 3 - Regulation of Technologies and TechnologicalRegulation
This panel will look at global Internet governance research activities related to regulation. Presentations will address ICT regulation means as well as using ICTs as a mean of regulation.
Chair: Katharine Sarikakis, University of Leeds, UK
Panelists:
- Consumers, Disclosure, and Internet Governance
Adam Candeub, Michigan University (MI), USA
- The CRID, an interdisciplinary research centre focusing on ICT regulation
Yves Poullet, University of Namur (FUNDP), Belgium>- Technology-Aware Policy Analysis: Case Studies of Deep Packet Inspection and Network Management
Ralf Bendrath, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- An assumption analysis of the Creative Content Online Public
Consultation by the European Commission
Luciano Morganti, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Leo Van Audenhove, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- Keeping Free Speech, Privacy and Property Real in Virtual Worlds: a Reasonable Duty for the Owners/Creators ?
Pierre-François Docquir, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Actively vs. Passive Volunteered Personal Information
Mark Lizar, London South Bank University & Identity Trust CIC, UK
15:00-15:30 - Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 - Panel 4 - What’s in a field? IG Research Methodologies and Boundaries
This panel will look at global Internet governance research activities in terms of methodologies and approaches. It also aims at defining the contours of the field.
Chair: Bart Cammaerts, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Panelists:
- Mapping Internet Governance: theoretical framework, research methodologies and possible implementation strategies (With a little help from my friends…)
Claudia Padovani, University of Padova, Italy
Elena Pavan, University of Trento, Italy
- Modes of Governance in Digitally Networked Environments: Perspectives from an Interdisciplinary Workshop
Malte Ziewitz, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK
- Internet Governance - Under Construction: Doing Multidisciplinary
and Multisited Research in 'Real Life' and Online
Marianne Franklin, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
- Internet Regulation; Governance without the state, an exercise in global cooperation
Rafid A Y Fatani, University of Exeter, UK
- The social imaginary of new media practices: issues for discussion
Pantelis Vatikiotis, Panteion University of Social and Political
Sciences, Greece
- An Assessment of the Contribution of the Lebanese Universities in Internet Governance
Antoine Melki, University of Balamand, Lebanon
- Public Opinion Formation in Convergence Culture
Jakob Svensson, Karlstad University, Sweden
17:00-17:30 - Closing Session
- Synthesis of Discussions, Conclusion and Way Forward
Meryem Marzouki, CNRS & University Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Luciano Morganti, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction
Organized by GigaNet, in cooperation with ECREA IIC, CD and CLP Sections
Brussels, Belgium, 11 May 2009
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Campus Etterbeek, Building D,
Promotiezaal D.2.01
Participation is free of charge but registration is needed.
Registration form and other practical details at:
http://giganet.igloogroups.org/publiclibr/giganetcos/2009brusse
09:00-09:30 - Opening Session
- Welcoming Remarks by Workshop Co-Chair
Luciano Morganti, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- Presentation of the Workshop Organizers
Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet)
European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
International and Intercultural Communication (IIC) section
Communication and Democracy (CD) section
Communication, Law and Policy (CLP) section
- Contributions and Program Overview by Workshop Co-Chair Meryem Marzouki, CNRS & University Pierre et Marie Curie, France
09:30-10:45 - Panel 1 - Power Dynamics in IG: Transformation or Consolidation?
This panel will discuss research activities dealing with global Internet governance actors and their power relationships. It will examine to which extent new power dynamics are actually emerging.
Chair: Leo Van Audenhove, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Panelists:
- Multi-Stakeholderism and Intra-Civil Society Networking: The case
of the WSIS IG-working group mailing list
Bart Cammaerts, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
- Negotiation and the Global Information Economy: Implications for
Internet Governance
JP Singh, Georgetown University (Washington DC), USA
- The governance of web standards. Economic struggles in the XML case
François-Xavier Dudouet, Université Paris 9 Dauphine, France
Benjamin Nguyen, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, France
Antoine Vion, Université de la Méditerranée, France
- Proceduralization, Agencification, and Privatization: Internet Governance’s Three Pillars and their Normative Consequences
Meryem Marzouki, CNRS & Université Paris 6 Pierre et Marie Curie,France
- Wars in Cyberspace : the recasting of military power in the digital age
Jean-Loup Samaan, French Ministry of Defense, France
10:45-11:15 - Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 - Panel 2 - Critical Internet
Resources and the Never- Ending ICANN Case This panel will focus on the global governance of critical Internet resources and will bring fresh views on ICANN role in this field.
Chair: JP Singh, Georgetown University (Washington DC), USA
Panelists:
- Work in progress in Internet governance: a proposed study on
ICANN’s opening for new gTLDs
Laura Abba, CNR, Pisa Institute for Informatics and Telematics, Italy
Stefano Trumpy, CNR, Pisa Institute for Informatics and Telematics, Italy
- The Governance of Internet Country Code Top Level Domains in Europe
George Christou, University of Warwick, UK
Seamus Simpson, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
- Administration and marketing of the ccTLD and its policy implications on Internet governance
Keisuke Kamimura, Center for Global Communications, International
University of Japan, Japan
- Internet Governance and Critical Resources
Rolf H. Weber, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Neo-Liberal Globalization and Internet Governance
Hangwoo Lee, Chungbuk National University, South Korea
13:45-15:00 - Panel 3 - Regulation of Technologies and TechnologicalRegulation
This panel will look at global Internet governance research activities related to regulation. Presentations will address ICT regulation means as well as using ICTs as a mean of regulation.
Chair: Katharine Sarikakis, University of Leeds, UK
Panelists:
- Consumers, Disclosure, and Internet Governance
Adam Candeub, Michigan University (MI), USA
- The CRID, an interdisciplinary research centre focusing on ICT regulation
Yves Poullet, University of Namur (FUNDP), Belgium>- Technology-Aware Policy Analysis: Case Studies of Deep Packet Inspection and Network Management
Ralf Bendrath, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- An assumption analysis of the Creative Content Online Public
Consultation by the European Commission
Luciano Morganti, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Leo Van Audenhove, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- Keeping Free Speech, Privacy and Property Real in Virtual Worlds: a Reasonable Duty for the Owners/Creators ?
Pierre-François Docquir, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Actively vs. Passive Volunteered Personal Information
Mark Lizar, London South Bank University & Identity Trust CIC, UK
15:00-15:30 - Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 - Panel 4 - What’s in a field? IG Research Methodologies and Boundaries
This panel will look at global Internet governance research activities in terms of methodologies and approaches. It also aims at defining the contours of the field.
Chair: Bart Cammaerts, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Panelists:
- Mapping Internet Governance: theoretical framework, research methodologies and possible implementation strategies (With a little help from my friends…)
Claudia Padovani, University of Padova, Italy
Elena Pavan, University of Trento, Italy
- Modes of Governance in Digitally Networked Environments: Perspectives from an Interdisciplinary Workshop
Malte Ziewitz, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK
- Internet Governance - Under Construction: Doing Multidisciplinary
and Multisited Research in 'Real Life' and Online
Marianne Franklin, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
- Internet Regulation; Governance without the state, an exercise in global cooperation
Rafid A Y Fatani, University of Exeter, UK
- The social imaginary of new media practices: issues for discussion
Pantelis Vatikiotis, Panteion University of Social and Political
Sciences, Greece
- An Assessment of the Contribution of the Lebanese Universities in Internet Governance
Antoine Melki, University of Balamand, Lebanon
- Public Opinion Formation in Convergence Culture
Jakob Svensson, Karlstad University, Sweden
17:00-17:30 - Closing Session
- Synthesis of Discussions, Conclusion and Way Forward
Meryem Marzouki, CNRS & University Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Luciano Morganti, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Issues in Information and Media Literacy: Criticism, History and Policy
>Issues in Information and Media Literacy: Criticism, History and Policy
>(ISBN:1932886117, 9781932886115)
>
>Issues in Information and Media Literacy: Education, Practice and
>Pedagogy (ISBN: 1932886125, 9781932886122)
>
>Both texts are edited by Marcus Leaning and published by the Informing
>Science Press.
>
>The books chart the dynamic and fast expanding field of media and
>information literacy. As the chapters in these volumes show,
>information and media literacy present new and demanding challenges to
>policy makers, education managers, teachers and educational
>practitioners and perhaps above all, students. International in scope
>the books examine a broad range of critical and practical concerns of
>developing information and media literacy.
>
>The tables of contents are as follows:
>
>Issues in Information and Media Literacy: Criticism, History and Policy
>
>Preface
>
>Section 1 - Theories and Criticism
>
>Chapter 1: Theories and Models of Media Literacy
>Marcus Leaning
>
>Chapter 2: Media Education as a Technology of Citizenship
>Niina Uusitalo
>
>Section 2 - Politics and Policy
>
>Chapter 3: The Analogue to Digital Switchover: Media Literacy in the
>Context of Change
>Yasmin Ibrahim
>
>Chapter 4: New Media and Media Literacy: A Case Study of Media
>Education Policy in Taiwan
>Tzu-Bin Lin
>
>Chapter 5: The Politics of Media Literacy in Ontario and the Struggle
>for Democratic Citizenship and Media
>Kirsten Kozolanka
>
>Section 3 - Development and Practice
>
>Chapter 6: A Critical Evaluation of Media Literacy in Turkey and
>Suggestions for Developing Social Transformation and Citizenship.
>Mine Gencel Bek & Mutlu Binark
>
>
>Chapter 7: Empowering Children in a Changing Media Environment: Media
>Education in the Maltese Educational System.
>Joseph Borg & Mary Anne Lauri
>
>Chapter 8: Information and Media Literacy in the Indian Context:
>Diverse Directions
>Mira K. Desai & Geeta Seshu
>
>Section 4 - Histories and Influences
>
>Chapter 9: Failures of the past, absences of the present: Peru's
>radical take on Media in the 1970s and its relationship with the
>non-existent Media Literacy scene in the 2000s.
>Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla
>
>Chapter 10: Media Education in Russia: A Brief History
>Alexander Fedorov 173
>
>Chapter 11: The Development of Media Literacy in Russia: Efforts from
>Inside and Outside the Country
>Jiwon Yoon
>
>Section 5 - New Directions
>
>Chapter 12: ACCEPTED: Visual Literacy from an Interdisciplinary
>Perspective
>Teun Velders, Roberto Muffoletto, Sjoerd de Vries & Piet Kommers
>(ISBN:1932886117, 9781932886115)
>
>Issues in Information and Media Literacy: Education, Practice and
>Pedagogy (ISBN: 1932886125, 9781932886122)
>
>Both texts are edited by Marcus Leaning and published by the Informing
>Science Press.
>
>The books chart the dynamic and fast expanding field of media and
>information literacy. As the chapters in these volumes show,
>information and media literacy present new and demanding challenges to
>policy makers, education managers, teachers and educational
>practitioners and perhaps above all, students. International in scope
>the books examine a broad range of critical and practical concerns of
>developing information and media literacy.
>
>The tables of contents are as follows:
>
>Issues in Information and Media Literacy: Criticism, History and Policy
>
>Preface
>
>Section 1 - Theories and Criticism
>
>Chapter 1: Theories and Models of Media Literacy
>Marcus Leaning
>
>Chapter 2: Media Education as a Technology of Citizenship
>Niina Uusitalo
>
>Section 2 - Politics and Policy
>
>Chapter 3: The Analogue to Digital Switchover: Media Literacy in the
>Context of Change
>Yasmin Ibrahim
>
>Chapter 4: New Media and Media Literacy: A Case Study of Media
>Education Policy in Taiwan
>Tzu-Bin Lin
>
>Chapter 5: The Politics of Media Literacy in Ontario and the Struggle
>for Democratic Citizenship and Media
>Kirsten Kozolanka
>
>Section 3 - Development and Practice
>
>Chapter 6: A Critical Evaluation of Media Literacy in Turkey and
>Suggestions for Developing Social Transformation and Citizenship.
>Mine Gencel Bek & Mutlu Binark
>
>
>Chapter 7: Empowering Children in a Changing Media Environment: Media
>Education in the Maltese Educational System.
>Joseph Borg & Mary Anne Lauri
>
>Chapter 8: Information and Media Literacy in the Indian Context:
>Diverse Directions
>Mira K. Desai & Geeta Seshu
>
>Section 4 - Histories and Influences
>
>Chapter 9: Failures of the past, absences of the present: Peru's
>radical take on Media in the 1970s and its relationship with the
>non-existent Media Literacy scene in the 2000s.
>Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla
>
>Chapter 10: Media Education in Russia: A Brief History
>Alexander Fedorov 173
>
>Chapter 11: The Development of Media Literacy in Russia: Efforts from
>Inside and Outside the Country
>Jiwon Yoon
>
>Section 5 - New Directions
>
>Chapter 12: ACCEPTED: Visual Literacy from an Interdisciplinary
>Perspective
>Teun Velders, Roberto Muffoletto, Sjoerd de Vries & Piet Kommers
Thursday, April 9, 2009
blackout europe campaign
http://www.blackouteurope.eu/
Civil society campaign underway in opposition to EP changes to internet policy!
The European open internet is under imminent threat
The European Parliament may be about to surrender absolute power over the Internet to the telecom operators.
Under the false premise that market and competition rules will solve all problems, MEPs are about to agree to "Net discrimination" in amendments pushed by AT&T, the UK and French governments.
Loopholes which require that internet traffic is not infringing copyright may be created: an utterly inappropriate requirement to place on ISPs. ISPs are conduits for data, they deliver the message, they have no place in examining every packet of data.
If these amendments are approved, European innovation, the current Internet growth model and citizens' fundamental rights and freedoms will be in grave danger.
The Internet's fantastic growth, and the future of Europe's societies, its nnovation and wealth, depend on principles that have been upheld since the inception of the Internet.
This form of innovation "at the edge" is not in the interest of established players. This is why telecoms operators, backed by the UK government, are pushing hard to obtain more control over what is done on their networks.
Selecting and prioritizing which content, applications and services can be accessed over their network would give them control over their competitors and maximize their profits by turning them into unaccountable gatekeepers.
Citizens must act now. Here’s what to do:
1 Contact your MEP, using the draft letter if you like
2 Join our facebook group
3 Change your avatars to one of the Blackout Europe
Civil society campaign underway in opposition to EP changes to internet policy!
The European open internet is under imminent threat
The European Parliament may be about to surrender absolute power over the Internet to the telecom operators.
Under the false premise that market and competition rules will solve all problems, MEPs are about to agree to "Net discrimination" in amendments pushed by AT&T, the UK and French governments.
Loopholes which require that internet traffic is not infringing copyright may be created: an utterly inappropriate requirement to place on ISPs. ISPs are conduits for data, they deliver the message, they have no place in examining every packet of data.
If these amendments are approved, European innovation, the current Internet growth model and citizens' fundamental rights and freedoms will be in grave danger.
The Internet's fantastic growth, and the future of Europe's societies, its nnovation and wealth, depend on principles that have been upheld since the inception of the Internet.
This form of innovation "at the edge" is not in the interest of established players. This is why telecoms operators, backed by the UK government, are pushing hard to obtain more control over what is done on their networks.
Selecting and prioritizing which content, applications and services can be accessed over their network would give them control over their competitors and maximize their profits by turning them into unaccountable gatekeepers.
Citizens must act now. Here’s what to do:
1 Contact your MEP, using the draft letter if you like
2 Join our facebook group
3 Change your avatars to one of the Blackout Europe
'Video reveals G20 police assault on man who died'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/07/video-g20-police-assault
this is a developing story regarding a police attack on a passerby during the g20 protests in london who died of a heart attack just following.
the story unfolds police misrepresentation of thruth that was revealed through photos and video footage taken at the scene by witnesses.
this is a developing story regarding a police attack on a passerby during the g20 protests in london who died of a heart attack just following.
the story unfolds police misrepresentation of thruth that was revealed through photos and video footage taken at the scene by witnesses.
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