Events social media - sociology (21)

Join us for evo ’11—a conference that blends workshops, networking, parties and the wind-in-your-hair relaxation that can only be found by spending summertime in the mountains. Who: Bloggers, businesses, and social media junkies of all levels. What: Participate in hands-on tutorials and workshops, thoughtful discussions and keynote panels. Network and party with the friends and...

The recently published article by Robert Putnam E Pluribus Unum has once again raised a vivid debate on the relationship between ethnic diversity, and levels of trust and social capital of societies. Based on empirical evidence from an extensive research in the United States in 2000, Putnam concludes that diversity has, at least in the medium term, negative consequences for social...

The conference will address the convergence of two parallel developments: global migration and the flow of symbolic forms and digital interactive media, which are having profound consequences for our transnational world. New developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as the internet and mobile phones combined with a collapse in the cost of international...

Scholars working on Africa-related topics are often faced with social, cultural or linguistic gaps that open up in the translation from one form of cultural representation to another. This conference seeks to explore translation, not only on a linguistic level, but in relation to the spaces and tensions between one cultural form or practice and another, one medium and another, or between...

This inter- and multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the contemporary experience of Diasporas – communities who conceive of themselves as a national, ethnic, linguistic or other form of cultural and political construction of collective membership living outside of their ‘home lands.’ In particular, key issues to be addressed include: what are the defining characteristics of Diasporas and...

Contributions are invited for an international conference which will explore the continuing relevance of the notion of moral panic in analyzing a range of contemporary phenomena. Almost four decades have passed since the initial development of the moral panic concept by Stanley Cohen, Jock Young and others. Since its emergence in the early 1970s from radical criminology, the moral panic concept...

The International Conference on Sustainable Humanand social Development aims to bring togetheracademic scientists, leading engineers, industryresearchers and scholar students to exchange andshare their experiences and research results about Organized by: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.Check the event website for latest...

The second edition of the International Conference on Latin American Issues 2010 is proposed to extend and expand the space for meetings and discussions that began to develop in Mar del Plata in 2008. On that occasion, symposia, panels and presentations articulated instances of consultation on the space of social movements, governments and political parties, mass media and...

Milwaukee in the 1960s and 1970s was a key site for civil rights marches, particularly around the open housing movement. From 1897 through much of the 20th Century, the city was governed by a succession of socialist mayors, elected on their platform of practical, "sewer socialism." And Wisconsin itself and its Midwestern neighbors have long been home to experiments inintentional...

HEGOA and ACSUR-Las Segovias propose holding of the "Feminism on the agenda of Development" to be held in Bilbao, Faculty of Economics and Business 27 and 28 May 2010.Este event is situated in the framework Education project called Gender Development in Education for Development: Issues of North-South debate for women's political agenda (Phase II) funded by the Directorate of...