Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:@barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/newCybertimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 It's still rock & roll to me ________________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:11:47 -0400 From: Andrea Forte <andrea.forte.drexel@gmail.com> Reply-To: aforte@drexel.edu To: comtech@fit.fraunhofer.de Subject: [Comtech] Urban Informatics Symposium - Registration Open Symposium on Urban Informatics: Exploring Smarter Cities Philadelphia PA | June 11, 2013 ExCITe Center | 3401 Market Street http://ischool.drexel.edu/urbaninformatics Registration is open and the program has been posted. The symposium on Urban Informatics will bring together designers, city planners and managers, technologists, scholars and entrepreneurs in Philadelphia, at the heart of the U.S. northeast urban corridor, to explore the frontiers of the urban environment. The event will be hosted at the Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) research center on the Drexel University campus. The opening plenary will be delivered by Dr. Keith Hampton and several panel discussions are planned that will bring together diverse perspectives on urban technologies. Participants will be encouraged to take time to form ad-hoc discussion groups throughout the day. PLENARY BIO | After receiving his doctorate from University of Toronto in Sociology, Keith Hampton joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty as the first professor of "technology and the city" in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and later joined the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as chair of the American Sociological Association's section on Communication and Information Technologies from 2007-2009, and past-chair from 2009-2010. Hampton is currently an associate professor of communication at Rutgers University's School of Communication. Registration will close on May 15th. Please contact Kris Unsworth at ku26@drexel.edu with questions. Hope to see you there! -- :: Andrea Forte :: Assistant Professor :: The iSchool | College of Information Science and Technology :: Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA :: http://andreaforte.net | aforte@drexel.edu | 215.895.0543 _______________________________________________ Comtech mailing list Comtech@fit.fraunhofer.de https://lists.fit.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/comtech