London April 23-26 2003 New Media, Technology and Everyday Life in Europe Conference

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Conference Programme and Papers

Go to paper abstracts and list of panels Conference Programme ( also in PDF format - requires Acrobat Reader) Please note: If you quote from or refer to the papers presented at the EMTEL Conference please use the following style: Name, Surname (2003). Title. Paper presented at the EMTEL Conference, 23-26 April 2003, London School of Economics, London. Available online at http://www.emtelconference.org Conference location: Clement House, LSE campus.
	Wednesday, 23 April Thursday, 24 April Friday, 25 April Saturday, 26 April
	Wednesday, 23 April	Rooms
11:00	Registration in the Hong Kong Theatre foyer Coffee (Room D109)	Hong Kong Theatre
14:00	Conference Opening and Welcome (Chair and Co-Chair). Introduction of Conference themes, contributing fields, state of the art.
14:15	First day keynote speaker: Manuel Castells. Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley. "Internet and the Network State" Questions & discussion
15:15	Coffee break	Room D109
	Substantive theme 1: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Information Society
15:45	Plenary session 1: Exclusion Professor François Pichault, Université de Liège (Chair and discussant). Dr. Sally Wyatt, ASCoR (Amsterdam School of Communications Research), University of Amsterdam. "The digital divide: The Internet, health information and everyday life" Ms. Dorothée Durieux (LENTIC, Université de Liège). "ICT and inclusion in the everyday life of less abled people".	Hong Kong Theatre
17:00	Parallel sessions 1: Exclusion in the information society
	PANEL 1: From initial intentions to perverse effects Els Rommes, Twente University, "'I don't know how to fit it into my life'; The gap between inclusion initatives and the personal stories of the excluded". Abel Ugba and Elaine Moriarty, Trinity College, Dublin, New connections, Old exclusions: Ethnic Minorities in Ireland’s new Information Society.	Hong Kong Theatre

	PANEL 2: New opportunities through appropriation Stefan Welling, Telecommunications Research Group, University of Bremen, Conditions and Requirements of a Milieu-Sensitive Computer-Supported Youth Work Charlotte Kira Kimby, Center for Media and Democracy in the Network Society, University of Copenhagen, The internet's potential as a tool of empowerment in everyday life Irma Van Slooten, Univeristy of Twente, Faculty of Business, Public Administration & technology, "Women on the Web The Netherlands: a women-only strategy to encourage women to use the Internet"	Room D202

	PANEL 3: A whole range of possible effects Pille Vengerfeldt, University of Tartu & Dublin City University, "Digital divide - questions beyond access" Chris Paterson, University of San Francisco, News Agency Hegemony and the Prospects for a Democratic Information Society	Room D209
18:15	End of the day
19:15	Conference dinner @ Sofra (36, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden,WC2E 7PB)

	Thursday, 24 April
09:00	Plenary session 2: Citizenship Dr. Valerie Frissen, TNO Delft, The Netherlands (Chair and discussant). Professor Stephen Coleman, Oxford Internet Institute. “Civic Spaces and Zones of Silence”. Dr. Bart Cammaerts, University of Amsterdam. "'Transnational Social Movements and the Denationalisation of Citizenship in the Networked Society"	Hong Kong Theatre
10:15	Coffee break
10:30	Second day keynote speaker Cees Hamelink, Professor of International Communication at the University of Amsterdam. “What If Information Is Not The Issue?” Questions & discussion.	Hong Kong Theatre
11:30	Parallel sessions 2: citizenship in the information society
	PANEL 1: ICT, Participation and Citizenship: dreams and nightmares, pros and cons Isabelle Rigoni, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER) - University of Warwick, Ethnic Media, An Alternative Form of Citizenship Ildiko Kaposi, Central European University, "Do You Really Want Everyone to Participate?"	Hong Kong Theatre

	PANEL 2: Extending off line participation Mattia Miani, University of Bologna, Electronic democracy in co-operative enterprises Pascoe J. Elvin, University of Westminster, Question Time: TV Debate Goes Online Anne-Marie Oostveen, University of Amsterdam, The effect of different voting media on democratic participation: the first results of large-scale field studies	Room D202

	PANEL 3: New forms of participation in the virtual domain Gustavo Mesch , University of Haifa, Community Networking, Social and Political Participation in Two Suburban Localities Pauliina Lehtonen and Heikki Heikkilä, University of Tampere / Journalism research and development centre, Citizens Consulting the Infocracy. The Appropriation of ICT and Participatory Ideas in Finland	Room D209
12:45	Lunch at Cafe Pepe
13:45	Plenary session 3: Community Professor Roger Silverstone, Media@LSE, London School of Economics (Chair and discussant) Dr. Asu Aksoy, Goldsmiths College, London. "Transnational Television Viewing and Dialogic Imagination". Dr. Myria Georgiou, Media@LSE London School of Economics. "Mapping diasporic Media Cultures: A Cultural Perspective to Exclusion"	Hong Kong Theatre
15:00	Parallel sessions 3 : community and community media.
	PANEL 1 Nelly Elias, Tel-Aviv University, The role of mass media in the integration process of immigrants: A cross-cultural comparison of Russians in Israel and Germany Sameera Tahira Ahmed, Leicester University, Young Muslims and Muslim Media in Britain, (also see additional table)	Hong Kong Theatre

	PANEL 2 Joanna Helcké, Loughborough University, Magazines in Everyday Life: negotiating identity, femininity and belonging in lifestyle magazines for minority ethnic women in France and the UK Eugenia Siapera, University of Amsterdam, Multiculturalism in Cyberspace	Room D202

	PANEL 3 Benedikte Brincker, University of Copenhagen, Clash of Communities Nico Carpentier, Free University of Brussels – VUB, Bridging cultural and digital divides. Signifying everyday life, cultural diversity and participation in the on-line community Video Nation	Room D209
16:15	Coffee break.	Room D109
	Substantive theme 2: Living and Working in the Information Society.
16:30	Plenary session 4: Flexibility Dr. Anne-Jorunn Berg, CTS, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Chair and discussant). Dr. Frank Helten, BIS - Berliner Institut für Sozialforschung (Berlin Institute for Social Research). “Connectivity at Home - Relaxation or Rationalization” Dr. Thomas Berker, CTS, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. "Fascination, Use, Protection: Heavy Internet Use Revisited".	Hong Kong Theatre
17:45	Parallel sessions 4: consumption / flexibility in the Information Society.

	PANEL 1: Flexibility. Eleftheria Vasileiadou, University of Patras, Discussing email in the working place: flexibility for the employees? Frank Kleemann, Chemnitz University of Technology, Telework: On the temporal, spatial and social disembedding of work and its consequences Max Nathan, Gwendolyn Carpenter and Simon Roberts , I-Society, The Work Foundation, "Work It? An Everyday Perspective On Technology, Work And Workstyles in the UK"	Hong Kong Theatre
19:00	End of the day

	Friday, 25 April
09:00	Plenary session 5: 'Domestication: revisiting and re-thinking a core concept' Professor Paschal Preston, COMTEC Dublin City University (Chair). Dr. Katie Ward, University of Sheffield. "The Bald Guy Just Ate an Orange’: Working at Home and the Organisation of the Domestic Internet". Maren Hartmann, SMIT, Free University Brussels. "Beyond Domestication? The Complexity of ICT use research" Discussion by Professors Knut Sørensen and Roger Silverstone.	Hong Kong Theatre

10:15	Third day keynote speaker: Robin Mansell. Dixons Professor in New Media and the Internet, London School of Economics and Political Science. "World Summits and Information Societies: Missing Conceptual Tools for Policy" Questions & discussion	Hong Kong Theatre
11:15	Coffee break	Room D109
11:30	Parallel session 5: domesticity in the Information Society
	PANEL 1: Sander Limonard, TNO-STB Department of Information and Communication, "Networked spaces and the public/private domain" Eva Ikonomidis Svedmark and Annakarin Nyberg, Institution of Informatics, University of Umeå, Capturing sense making of IT-use in everyday life	Hong Kong Theatre

	PANEL 2: Deirdre Hynes, Dublin City University, "Digital Multimedia Consumption/Use in the Household Setting" Anna Maria Russo, University of Colorado at Boulder, New Media in Single Parent Households: Practices and Identity-Formation in Relation to the Public Discourses of Technology	Room D202
12:45	Lunch at Cafe Pepe
13:45	Plenary session 6: Consumption Professor Caroline Pauwels, SMIT, Free University Brussels (Chair and discussant). Virpi Oksman, Information Society Institute, University of Tampere. "Wireless Kids - Mobile Communication Cultures of Teenagers". Maren Hartmann, SMIT, Free University Brussels. "Questioning the 'web generation' - young adults and their ICT-use in Flanders".	Hong Kong Theatre
15:00	Coffee break
15:30	Plenary session 7: Quality of life Marc Bogdanowicz , Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, EC/JRC Seville (Chair and discussant). Josephine Green, Director Trends and Strategies, Philips Design, The Netherlands. Title TBA. Dr. Yves Punie, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, EC/JRC Seville. "A social and technological view on Ambient Intelligence: What bends the trend?"	Hong Kong Theatre
16:45	Parallel sessions 6: quality of life in the information Society.
	PANEL 1: Virtual agents and virtual residence Bernhard Rieder, Université Paris 8 - Département Hypermédias, Agent Technology and the Delegation-Paradigm in a NetworkedSociety Marit Hansen, Independent Centre for Privacy Protection / Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz - Schleswig-Holstein, Identity Management Systems: Gateway and Guardian for Virtual Residences	Hong Kong Theatre

	PANEL 2: AmI implications and privacy Juergen Bohn, Vlad Coroama, Marc Langheinrich, Friedemann Mattern, Michael Rohs (ETH Zurich), Disappearing Computers Everywhere - Living in a World of Smart Everyday Objects Matina Halkia, Joint Research Center IPSC, Privacy in AmI space: Designing for Private and Public Worlds	Room D202

	PANEL 3: Research approaches to AmI in Everyday Life Desiree Hoving, TNO-STB, Enhancing the quality of life in a living lab Moerwijk (the Hague) Oliver Da Costa and Yves Punie, IPTS, Seville, Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life: A function-oriented Science & Technology Roadmapping project	Room D209
18:00	End of the day
21:00	Drink reception @ The Underground (LSE East Building)

	Saturday, 26 April
09:15	Final training sessions. Overview of the activities of the day.	Hong Kong Theatre

09:30	Parallel sessions. A Maximum of five parallel sessions will be held. These will be organised around specific themes such as methodology , theory or policy issues emerging during the Conference. For instance: methodologies for the study of the Information Society issues of policy in the Information Society comparative research on the Information Society European way to the Information Society? the evolution of technology in Europe theorising the Information society in Europe. The full list of topics will be announced at the beginning of the conference after a consultation round with the young researchers involved. YR will be able to suggest themes that they would like to see addressed.	Hong Kong Theatre Room D202 Room D209
11:15	Coffee break
11:30	Final plenary session. Katri Kerem, Adoption of electronic banking: underlying consumer behaviour and critical success factors. Case of Estonia A plenary session followed with room for reports from the parallel sessions and discussion will conclude the conference. Final greetings.	Hong Kong Theatre
12:00	Final administrative round-up. Submission of travel and accommodation receipts for reimbursement.
13:00	Departure