Publication of major study on the Information Society
EMTEL reports now available at http://www.emtel2.org/
The European Media Technology and Everyday Life Network (EMTEL) was funded by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme. It was constituted as a research and training network within the programme Improving Knowledge Potential and oriented towards "creating a user friendly information society".
EMTEL conducted interdisciplinary social scientific research between 2000 and 2003, about the information society from the perspective of everyday life.
The final results of the research are now available at http://www.emtel2.org/
Seven reports deal with specific aspects of the everyday life in the Information Society:
YOUTH: The Web Generation? The (De)Construction of Users, Morals and Consumption
AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE: A Social and Technological View of Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life: What bends the trend?
WORK: Boundaries in a Space of Flows. The Case of Migrant Researchers' Use of ICT
CONSUMPTION: An Ethnographic Study of Internet Consumption in Ireland: Between Domesticity and the Public Participation
POLITICAL ACTIVISM: ICT-Usage among Transnational Social Movements in the Networked Society: to organise, to mediate & to influence
MINORITY MEDIA: Mapping Diasporic Media across the EU: Addressing Cultural Exclusion
DISABILITY: ICT and social inclusion in the everyday life of less abled people
Five THEMATIC REPORTS cover overarching aspects of the Information Society:
Media and Technology in the Everyday Life of European Societies The Information Society in Europe: Methods and Methodologies Inclusion and Exclusion in the Information Society ICTs in Everyday Life: Public Policy Implications for 'Europe's Way to the Information Society' Living and Working in the Information Society: Quality of Life in a Digital World
Contributing partners are as follows:
- ASCoR, The University of Amsterdam
- COMTEC, Dublin City University
- IPTS, Seville
- LENTIC, The University of Liege
- Media@lse, London School or Economics (co-ordinating centre)
- NTNU, University of Trondheim
- SMIT, Free University of Brussels
- TNO, Delft
- SINTEF, University of Trondheim
For more information, please refer to the EMTEL Network website (http://www.emtel2.org/).
The site also features the proceeding of the Network Conference, held in April 2004. (www.emtelconference.org).
Roger Silverstone
EMTEL Co-ordinator
r.silverstone@lse.ac.uk
