This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to explore, examine and critically engage with the issues and implications created by the emergence of new media for human living and culture. In particular the project will encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues in wrestling with theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural contexts within which emerging media and technological advances are occurring. When: Mon August 09 - Wed August 11, 2004 Where: Charles University in Prague and the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Papers, presentations, workshops and reports are invited on any of the following themes: - Defining the characteristics and features of 'new' media - Histories and theories of new media visual culture and the impact of entertainment digital communications and ways of relating new media in political contexts - New forms of citizenship - New media in social and economic contexts - Cybercultures, virtual reality, the rise of the internet, www, and online 'communities' - Interaction, interactivity and interfaces private and public space - Regulation; risk; issues of access and control - Knowledge management - Social movements and the shaping of individual and collective identities - The impact and implications of increasing globalisation - Cyberprotest, activism, anti-globalisation and social mobilisation Papers are welcomed on any related theme. There will also be an opportunity for a ‘problem-solving’ consultative exercise whereby projects in development from any context can be presented to the delegates for feedback and responses. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be published as an ISBN eBook. Selected papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be published in a hard copy themed volume. One themed volume from the previous is in press. Tickets / Registration available from: www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/mm/nmtc/nmtc2/bf.htm. For more information, email: rf@learning-solutions.org