<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="7"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 26.7px;">The Myth of the Global Internet</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;">Unequal Infrastructures, Invisible Controles, Multiple Cultures</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3px;">ECREA - One Day Symposium</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">When and where</FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3px;">10 October 2007</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University Brussels (Belgium), Room D. 2.01</FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Introduction</FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">The Internet is often heralded as an open infrastructure spanning the entire globe. It allows for people of all nations to communicate over borders, to consume the growing amount of information and entertainment available, to participate in the multiple participatory platforms and web 2.0 applications. The Internet is often identified as the key driving force in all processes of globalization. The aftermath of 9/11 seems to have considerably undermined the older myth of the media induced 'global village'. However, when it comes to the Internet the 'Myth of the Global Internet' seems to be more resilient. There are however many issues and processes which might question the 'globalness' of the Internet. Access and speeds of networks differ considerably resulting in different uses worldwide, localization techniques and DRM systems construct new borders resulting in different Internet experiences, different governments hold different opinions on Internet governance, government firewalls keep large parts of the globe locked in filtered worlds, local uses of the Internet grow considerably faster than International uses, languages and cultures are barriers for genuine global debate.</FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"> </FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B>This Symposium aims to critically reflect on the Internet as a global medium. It has brought together scholars who reflect critically on the idea of the global Internet from different perspectives</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">.</FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px">This One-Day Symposium preceeds the ECREA Symposium 'Equal Opportunities and Communication Rights: Representation, Participation and the European Democratic Deficit' which also takes place in Brussels on 11 and 12 October 2007. The Symposium is organised by the ECREA section on International and Intercultural Communication and in the framework of the IBBT project Video-q-sac.</P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; min-height: 18px; "><BR></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px">Preliminary Programme</P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px">The One Day Symposium on “The Myth of the Global Internet” is meant to be an occasion of exchange and debated amongst scholars whose research interests converge over the Internet and its future development. In order to promote a rich exchange of ideas, an open debate amongst the public and the speakers is highly envisaged. In order to do so each speaker will be allowed a max of 15-20 minutes to present her/his topic and 10-15 minutes to Q&As and debate with the public and the other speakers.</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B>Welcome of Participants/public: 9:30-9:45h</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B>Introductory Notes: 9:45-10h</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: 48px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; ">Leo Van Audenhove</P><P style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B>Keynote Speaker 10-10:30h</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px">The Myth of the Global Internet</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px">Andrew Calabrese</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B>Section 1: Invisible Controls 10:30-12h</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>Controling space, time, speed and quality on the Internet. An analysis of mechanisms and instruments. 10:30-11h</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I><BR></I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">Leo Van Audenhove, Luciano Morganti, John Vanhoucke, </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"> IBBT-SMIT-Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Beglium)</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>How global is the Internet. An analysis of players and production. 11-11:30h</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I><BR></I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">Luciano Morganti, IBBT-SMIT-Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>Government Control:</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"> The Internet in authoritarian states 11:30-12h</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"> Jan Schwate, Technical University of Ilmenau (Germany)</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B> </B></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><B>Section 2: Unequal Infrastructures – Global Digital Divide 12-13h</B></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>Internet in the developing world. The revolution did not take place 12-12:30h</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I><BR></I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">Pascal Mbala, IBBT-SMIT-Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>Contextualizing the digital divide in Latin America 12:30-13h</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I><BR></I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">Concepcion Travesedo de Castilla Universidad de Malaga (Spain)</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B> </B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B> </B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Lunch break: 13-14:30h</B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B> </B></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><B>Section 3: Regulating the Internet 14:30-15h</B></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>Internet governance, between global infrastructure and multistakeholderism. 14:30-15h</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I><BR></I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">Amar Lakel, Françoise Massit-Folléa, Vox Internet Research Program (France)</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B> </B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Multiple Cultures – Multiple Uses: 15-17h</B></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>Speaking of meta. Questioning the Internet as Homogeneous news medium. 15-15:30h</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I><BR></I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">Michaël Opgenhaffen, Lessius University College (Belgium)</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>Cyber exclusion as global social exclusion. South-East European experience. 15:30-16h</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I><BR></I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">Zoran Kostov, University “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” (Macedonia)</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>Interactivity and online newspapers of Bangladesh</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">. 16-16:30h </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"> Shameen Mahmud, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh)</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><I>Cultural differences reflected on the Internet. A comparison between Belgian and Dutch e-commerce websites 16:30-17h</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"> Malaika Brengman, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B> </B></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Concluding Remarks 17-17:30h</B></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px">Andrew Calabrese</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px">Registration</P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Attending the Symposium is free, however registration is required. Registration is possible via the IBBT website. If required both speakers and attendees should search for their own accomodation. There is enough parking space at the university for those coming by car. However, you need a barcode to leave the campus grounds by car. Please indicate whether you will be coming by car. We will send you a printable bar codes a few days before the beginning of the Symposium.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"><B>Info & Registration @: </B></SPAN></FONT><A href="http://events.ibbt.be/workshopecrea/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000EC"><B>http://events.ibbt.be/workshopecrea/</B></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;">Contact</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Leo Van Audenhove</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">IBBT-SMIT-VUB</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><A href="mailto:lvaudenh@vub.ac.be"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">leo.van.audenhove@vub.ac.be</SPAN></FONT></A></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Luciano Morganti</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">IBBT-SMIT-VUB</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><A href="mailto:Luciano.morganti@vub.ac.be"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Luciano.morganti@vub.ac.be</SPAN></FONT></A></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 15.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15.2px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>