Network Society

All pending speakers have been confirmed.

The definitive version of the programme can be consulted here in this link.

From today on registration is open to the course Network Society: social changes, organizations and citizens.

As can be read in the page to proceed with the registration, fees are 145 euros (90 for students) and places are limited.

Last version of the programme is always up-to-date in this page.

Update of the provisional programme:

NETWORK SOCIETY: SOCIAL CHANGES, ORGANIZATIONS AND CITIZENS

Day 1 - Wednesday 15 October

Introducción
09h00 - 09h30 : Opening
09h30 - 10h30 : Juan Freire - Presentation of the course
10h30 - 11h00 : Café
Citizenship in the Network Society
Chairs: Marc López
11h00 - 12h30 : Carol Darr
12h30 - 14h00 : Tom Steinberg
14h00 - 16h00 : Lunch
Organizations in the Network Society
Chairs: Genís Roca
16h00 - 17h30 : Miguel Cereceda
17h30 - 19h00 : David Weinberger

Día 2 - Thursday 16 October

09h00 - 09h30 : Juan Freire - Presentation of the day
Communication in the Network Society
Chairs: Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí
09h30 - 11h00 : (speaker TBC)
11h00 - 11h30 : Café
11h30 - 13h30 : Diálogo Josu Jon Imaz & Miquel Iceta
13h30 - 16h00 : Lunch
16h00 - 17h30 : Enrique Dans
17h30 - 19h00 : (speaker TBC)

Día 3 - Viernes 17 October

Innovation in the Network Society
Chairs: Ismael Peña-López
09h00 - 10h30 : Carlos Domingo
10h30 - 12h00 : Ethan Zuckerman
12h00 - 12h30 : Coffee break
12h30 - 14h30 : Round Table: Freire, Darr, Steinberg, Weinberger, Lafuente, Domingo, Zuckerman, Dans
14h30 - 15h00 : Closing

Network Society proposes to discuss the concept of Network Society mostly developed by Manuel Castells.

A massively connected society, with an almost continuous access to information, higher mobility and speech freedom, more urban, more free time, and more technology available to create, remix and share … is the adequate medium to transform the information society to the network society, a new model redefining concepts as identity, community, citizenship, authority and power, participation or property, and affecting greatly to every institution, being business, markets or governments. In this process, many institutions and organizations relevant in the construction of the future, both in the medium and large range, are becoming marginal to the network society. Also a digital divide is affecting to our elites, with access to the Internet but disconnected of the network society.

To think about and analyse these topics, Juan Freire, Genís Roca, Enrique Dans, Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí, Marc López Plana and Ismael Peña-López have joined efforts to organized the first course about the Network Society.

We are looking forward to meet you.