[csaa-forum] Internet Class 04 - Registration spaces still available

[Melissa Gregg]

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Internet Class 04: Mon 6 - Wed 8 December 2004 Update 

NB  -  registration  spaces still available -  please register early to
avoid disappointment. More details below. 
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A Masterclass on Contemporary Research in Critical Internet Studies
http://cccs.uq.edu.au/events/internetclass/
Convened by the Centre for Critical & Cultural Studies University of
Queensland - St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, Australia. CRICOS Provider
number:
00025B

Internet studies is a dynamic and innovative interdisciplinary field of
research, which engages in new ways with cultural technologies,
literacies,
histories, and identities. Aimed at doctoral students and early career
researchers from a wide range of disciplines, Internet Class 04 will be
a
unique masterclass event featuring leading international scholars in
critical Internet studies. With a strictly limited enrolment, Internet
Class
04 offers the opportunity for participants to: . hear first-hand about
the
best, new practices in contemporary Internet research; . extend their
knowledge of concepts, methods, and theories relevant to Internet
studies; .
identify and discuss challenges, trends, and opportunities in Internet
studies.
Confirmed presenters include:
Lisa Nakamura, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of Cybertypes:
Race,
Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (2002) and Visual Cultures of
the
Internet (2005)
Geert Lovink, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Polytechnic, and CCCS,
UQ,
author of Dark Fiber (2002) and My First Recession (2003)
Roger Clarke, consultant in strategic and policy aspects of electronic
business, information infrastructure, and dataveillance and privacy, and
Visiting Professor in eCommerce at the University of Hong Kong, Visiting
Professor in the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre at UNSW, and Visiting
Fellow
in Computer Science at ANU.
Mark McLelland, CCCS, UQ, co-editor of Japanese Cybercultures (2003) and
author of Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age (2005)
Sue Morris, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, UQ, expert
on
online computer gaming culture
Gerard Goggin, CCCS, UQ, editor of Virtual Nation: The Internet in
Australia
(2004), and co-author of Digital Disability: The Social Construction of
Disability in New Media (2003).
Registration costs (GST Inclusive) - includes lunch and other
refreshments
and evening lecture/ book lauch by Kim Anderson.

Registration Rates:
UQ Post graduate student only $330.00
Non UQ-PG/Unwaged $363.00
Waged/Staff $429.00
For more information and registration, please visit the website,
http://cccs.uq.edu.au/events/internetclass/
Or contact Andrea Mitchell (a.mitchell at uq.edu.au ) or Gerard Goggin
(g.goggin at uq.edu.au).