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Jesse Drew to Speak at 2013 Conference

Published on April 17, 2012 in Conference, Headline, News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

The Technology, Knowledge, and Society Conference is proud to announce Dr. Jesse Drew of the University of California, Davis, has been added to our Plenary schedule.

Jesse Drew’s work as a media artist, educator and writer seeks to challenge the complacent relationship between the public and new technologies. His research is centered on the theory and practice of alternative and community media and their impact on democratic societies. Viral media, blogging, Low-Power FM Radio, social computer networking, cable/satellite television, peer-to-peer computing, and on-line activism, coupled with an increasingly atomized civil society, have propelled these formerly marginal communications into positions of high importance. It is within this field that his work and research has been based over the last 30 years. His media work has been exhibited internationally and his writings have appeared in numerous publications and journals as well as several anthologies, such as Resisting the Virtual Life (City Lights Press), Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture (City Lights Press), At a Distance (MIT Press) and Collectivism After Modernism (University of Minnesota). He is currently associate professor of Cinema and Technocultural Studies at UC Davis. Before coming to UC Davis he headed the Center for Digital Media and was Associate Dean at the San Francisco Art Institute.

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Reception and Book Launch at 2012 Conference!

Published on December 6, 2011 in Conference, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Join us for a reception on the first evening of the Technology, Knowledge, and Society Conference to celebrate the release of Technology Community Member Marcus Breen’s new book, “Uprising: The Internet’s Unintended Consequences.”

Toast the New Year and chat with fellow Technology Community members over refreshments and a cash bar.

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Marcus Breen, Common Ground Author, to Present Keynote at 2012 Conference

Published on October 26, 2011 in Conference, Headline, News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

The Technology, Knowledge, and Society Conference is happy to welcome Dr. Marcus Breen as a Plenary Speaker at the 2012 Conference in Los Angeles.

Marcus Breen is an Associate Dean and Head of the School of Communications and Media at Bond University, Queensland, Australia.  He has worked as a researcher, an academic, a consultant and a journalist. He moved from Melbourne, Australia where he was teaching at The University of Melbourne, to teach in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996. Since then, he has also taught in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, Boston. His academic specialization is political economy and policy in the Information and Communication Technology industries.

Dr. Breen’s work background includes consulting and advisory experience with Gartner, Multimedia Victoria -State Government of Victoria, Austrade – Federal Government of Australia, Center for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies and numerous clients. As a journalist he worked for Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Music Business International, News Corporation. His most recent book is Uprising: The Internet’s Unintended Consequences, Common Ground Publishing (2011)

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Pedagogy Leads Technology: Online Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Published on September 20, 2011 in Book, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

 

Pedagogy Leads Technology: Online Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: New Technologies, New Pedagogies edited by Arianne Jennifer Rourke and Kathryn Sara Coleman is now available as part of the Technology and Society series.

This book highlights research and practice where pedagogy effectively utilises as well as leads the technology in teaching, learning and assessment in higher education. The examples provided, not only highlight how teaching practice can become research, an important focus for 21st century academics, but also provides exemplary case studies and theoretical perspectives on the importance of a student-centred approach to adopting technology for teaching and learning.

This book presents leading research from around the world, grouped into the following four themes:

  1. Interactive Technologies for Learning
    Deborah West; Linda E. Robinson, Robert D. Hannafin & David R. Parker; Peter Mark Jansson; Kate Thomson, Boon-Kiang Tan & Christopher Brook.
  2. Learning through Online Communities
    Carmen Pérez Basanta; Mark Mabrito; Marlo Ransdell; Trevor Nesbit.
  3. Online Collaborative Learning
    Jason Black & Lois W. Hawkes; Arianne Rourke & Kathryn Coleman; James A West.
  4. Reflecting on Reflective Practice
    Arianne Rourke & Kathryn Coleman.

 

Announcing Plenary Speaker Victoria Vesna for the 2012 Technology, Knowledge, and Society Conference

Published on July 4, 2011 in Conference, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

We are pleased to welcome Victoria Vesna to the 2012 Technology, Knowledge, and Society Conference as one of our plenary speakers.

Victoria Vesna is a media artist and Professor at the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts and Director of the Art|Sci center at the School of the Arts and California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI). She is currently a Visiting Professor and Director of Research at Parsons Art, Media + Technology, the New School for Design in New York and a senior researcher at IMéRA – Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées in Marseille, France and Artist in Residence at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bristol. Her work can be defined as experimental creative research that resides between disciplines and technologies. With her installations she explores how communication technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation. Victoria has exhibited her work in over twenty solo exhibitions, more than seventy group shows, has been published in excess of twenty papers and gave 100+ invited talks in the last decade. She is the North American editor of AI & Society and in 2007 published an edited volume – Database Aesthetics: Art in the age of Information Overflow, Minnesota Press. In Press is Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts. Edited with Christiane Paul and Margot Lovejoy. Intellect Press, 2011.

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Christiane Paul to Join as Plenary Speaker for the 2012 Technology, Knowledge, and Society Conference

Published on July 2, 2011 in Conference, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Christiane Paul to the 2012 Technology, Knowledge, and Society Conference as one of our plenary speakers.

Christiane Paul has written extensively on new media arts and lectured internationally on art and technology. An expanded edition of her book Digital Art (Thames& Hudson, UK, 2003) as well as her edited anthology New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (UC Press) were published in 2008. As Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she curated several exhibitions—including Profiling (2007), Data Dynamics (2001) and the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial—as well as artport, the Whitney Museum’s website devoted to Internet art. Other recent curatorial work includes Feedforward – The Angel of History (co-curated with Steve Dietz; Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation, Gijon, Spain, Oct. 2009); INDAF Digital Art Festival (Incheon, Korea, Aug. 2009); and Scalable Relations (Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, CA; as well as galleries at UCSD, UCLA and UCSB, 2008-09). Dr. Paul has previously taught in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1999-2008); the Digital+Media Department of the Rhode Island School of Design (2005-08); the San Francisco Art Institute and the Center of New Media at the University of California at Berkeley (2008).

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Announcing Plenary Speaker Henry Jenkins for the 2012 Technology, Knowledge, and Society Conference

Published on June 30, 2011 in Conference, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Henry Jenkins to the 2012 Technology, Knowledge, and Society Conference as one of our plenary speakers.

Henry Jenkins is Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He has written and edited more than a dozen books on media and popular culture, including Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (2006). His other published works reflect the wide range of his research interests, touching on democracy and new media, the “wow factor” of popular culture, science-fiction fan communities, and the early history of film comedy. As one of the first media scholars to chart the changing role of the audience in an environment of increasingly pervasive digital content, Jenkins has been at the forefront of understanding the effects of participatory media on society, politics, and culture. His research gives key insights to the success of social-networking Web sites, networked computer games, online fan communities, and other advocacy organizations, as well as emerging news media outlets.  Prior to joining USC, Jenkins spent nearly two decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the Peter de Florez Professor in the Humanities. While there, he directed MIT’s Comparative Media Studies graduate degree program from 1999-2009, setting an innovative research agenda during a time of fundamental change in communication, journalism, and entertainment.

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Uprising: The Internet’s Unintended Consequences

Published on June 17, 2011 in Book, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Uprising: The Internet’s Unintended Consequences by Marcus Breen is now available from the Technology and Society imprint.

The Internet has transformed the social relations that were once managed by the powers that be. As a rapidly maturing communications technology, the Internet has brought people together even while it has reinforced privatism. The desktop computer, the laptop, the cellular and mobile phone, the Global Positoning System, the pilotless drone aircraft, video games and Government documents courtesy of Wikileaks, all are connected on the network of networks. Together these converged elements of a global socio-technical system offer wonderful possibilities for human emancipation, even while those ideas collide with established ideas of civility and decency.

Utilizing a transdisciplinary approach, Uprising examines the way transgressive knowledge circulates in places and spaces where communication regulation has been removed. In doing so, the book offers a new approach to proletarianization. It is based on the theory that the deregulation of the digital infrastructure allows transgressive knowledge to be mobilized in ways that remake political economy. The current moment sees the Internet opening up questions about social organization, power and democracy. The unintended consequences that are attached to this analysis of the Internet are discussed in research about pornography and jihad. These case studies show how proletarianization can be used to understand the Internet, culture and society.

2011 Technology Conference Dinner – Reserve Your Tickets Now

Published on January 31, 2011 in Conference, Headline, Newsletter and Uncategorized. 1 Comment

Please join us at the Epelde & Mardaras Gallery to enjoy a traditional Basque Country Dinner. The menu includes Mussels in Basque Sauce, Fish Soup, Tenderloin with Peppers, and Basque Flan. Vegetarian options are available.

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Langdon Winner to Speak at 2011 Technology Conference

Published on December 30, 2010 in Conference, Headline and Newsletter. 1 Comment

Langdon Winner is a political theorist who focuses upon social and political issues that surround modern technological change. He is the author of Autonomous Technology, a study of the idea of “technology-out-of-control” in modern social thought, The Whale and The Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, and editor of Democracy in a Technological Society. Mr. Winner is past president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, and his views on social, political and environmental issues appear regularly in Tech Knowledge Revue, published in the on-line journal “NetFuture”.

Praised by The Wall Street Journal as “The leading academic on the politics of technology”, Mr. Winner was born and raised in San Luis Obispo, California. He received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley. He is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He has also taught at The New School for Social Research, M.I.T., College of the Atlantic, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and has lectured widely throughout the United States and Europe. In 1991-1992 he was visiting research fellow at the Center for Technology and Culture at the University of Oslo, Norway.  During the spring semester of 2001, he will be Hixon-Riggs Visting Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California.

A sometime rock critic, he was contributing editor at Rolling Stone in the late 1960s and early 1970s and has contributed articles on rock and roll to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and The Encylopaedia Britannica. At present he is doing research and writing on a book about the politics of design in the contexts of engineering, architecture and political theory. Another book, a collection of essays on technology and human experience, is also underway.

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