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The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress and other contributing libraries and archives.

The Digital World Research Centre (DWRC) aims to develop and apply a process of user-centred innovation in digital media technology, based on the interplay of user, design, business and technology research.

Examines the transformation of politics through digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing.

Its ideogrammatic self-contained, exportable, universally accessible content mirrors the utopian pan-linguistic dreams of cross-platform efforts on today's Internet; Adobe's PDF (portable document format) and Sun System's Java programming language each strive for similarly universal comprehension.

The theme of the 2011 conference is "Convergence in the Digital Age," and it focuses on key issues of the day such as the infrastructure of converged markets [...]

The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) invites submission of abstracts for its 2011 academic conference to be held at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 13 to 17, 2011. The general theme of the conference is ‘Cities, Creativity, Connectivity’.

Mapping GMP allows to identify actors, processes, outcomes and resources; foster access to relevant information; build and share new and existing knowledge; stimulate worldwide collaboration and enhance actors' capacities to intervene in policy settings.

Applications are invited for a three-year Research Associate position offered as part of an interdisciplinary project (LEEDR), focused on the use of digital and social media in domestic energy demand reduction...

For those who are interested in Chinese media and China's position in the global media industry, this might be a conference to consider. The topic addressed will be the relationships between the government and information media, new media communities and media advertising in China. May 5-6, 2011

Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 39: 487-505 (Volume publication date October 2010) First published online as a Review in Advance on June 21, 2010 E. Gabriella Coleman