COMMUNICATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The Mobile Information Society

 
 
 
 
 

 


 

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON 21ST-CENTURY COMMUNICATIONS
 
 

Conference organized by the

Institute for Philosophical Research
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

and

WESTEL Mobile Telecommunications (Hungary)

May 24-25, 2002

Venue:
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(Budapest, V. ker. Roosevelt tér 9.)

 


Friday, May 24

11:00 - 11:25 
Opening of the conference

     András SUGÁR, CEO 
     Westel Mobile Telecommunications
     Welcoming address

     Kristóf NYÍRI, Director
     Institute for Philosophical Research
     Hungarian Academy of Sciences
     Introduction: From the Information Society
     to Knowledge Communities   [magyar szöveg]

11:25 - 12:10
Nicola GREEN (Department of Sociology, University of Surrey): Community Redefined: Privacy and Accountability   [magyar szöveg]

12:10 - 12:50
Péter GEDEON (Professor of Economics, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration): Market and Trust in the Mobile Information Society

Lunch break

13:50 - 14:30 
Péter GYÖRGY (Professor of Communication, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest): Virtual Distance   [magyar szöveg]

14:30 - 15:15
Herbert HRACHOVEC (Professor of Philosophy, Universität Wien): Mediated Presence   [magyar szöveg]

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:15
Robin DUNBAR (Professor of Psychology, University of Liverpool): Are There Cognitive Constraints on an E-world?   [magyar szöveg]

16:15 - 16:55
Csaba PLÉH (Professor of Psychology, Department of Information Management, Technical University of Budapest): Communicative Patterns and Cognitive Architectures

16:55 - 17:35
Valéria CSÉPE (Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Children in the Mobile Information Society: Cognitive Costs and Benefits

17:45 - 18:45
Musical event
 

Saturday, May 25

09:15 - 09:55 
Klára SÁNDOR (Professor of Linguistics, University of Szeged, Hungary): The Fall of Linguistic Aristocratism   [magyar szöveg]

09:55 - 10:35
Kristóf NYÍRI (Director, Institute for Philosophical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Pictorial Meaning and Mobile Communication   [magyar szöveg]

10:35 - 11:20
Barbara TVERSKY (Professor of Psychology, Stanford University): Some Ways Graphics Communicate

11:20 - 12:00
János LAKI (Institute for Philosophical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – Gábor PALLÓ (Institute for Philosophical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Scientific Change and Mobile Communication

Lunch break

13:00 - 13:45
Carsten SØRENSEN (Department of Information Systems, The London School of Economics and Political Science): Mobility and Overload

13:45 - 14:25
Béla BUDA, M.D., Ph.D.: From a Therapeutical Point of View

14:25 - 15:10
Wolfgang COY (Professor of Computer Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): The Changing Role of Computing in (Mobile) Communication

15:10 - 15:50 
Endre DÁNYI (Editor-in-Chief, eDemocracy Newsletter, eDemocracy Association) – Miklós SÜKÖSD (Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Central European University): M-Politics in the Making: SMS and E-Mail in the 2002 Hungarian Election Campaign

15:50 - 16:00
Closing of the conference
 

Each talk is followed by a 15-minutes discussion.

 
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