new media

Contemporary Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City

Bilingual Conference (English and Italian)
The American University of Rome
26-27 November 2010

Keynote Speaker: Michael Herzfeld

The city of Rome, the Caput Mundi of Antiquity, has been studied
predominantly as a historical monument. But what of contemporary Rome; its
people, its politics and economy, its environment, the challenges of
globalization? The fast-changing urban realities of Italy's biggest city

School of Media and Communication, Pan-African University Conference
New media and the knowledge economy in Africa
Conference,  August 11-13, 2010*
2nd Call for Papers

The concept of the knowledge economy is more than that of an economy based
on knowledge. It even goes beyond the notion of the (economic) management of
knowledge and knowledge production in culture and society.  The conceptual
shift resides in the re-evaluation of production value away from the
traditional combination of raw materials-machinery-capital, and towards

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Research Institute for Media Art & Design

Post-doctoral Research Fellow (New Media)

   * Salary: £24,152 - £29,704 per annum
   * 35 hours per week, 1 year fixed term, renewable if funding is available
   * Closing Date: 16 October 2009
   * Based: Luton