Job Location : Remote
We require an Online Editor to research, collect, collate and post news stories and other content to our website and newsletter.
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Budget Range : £7.50-£15 Per Hour
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Deadline: 15 January 2011
Editors: Angel David Nieves, Ph.D. & Marla L. Jaksch, Ph.D.
The editors seek abstracts (1,000-1,500 words) including critical engagements with film, video, performance, art, music, museums, archives, websites for inclusion in an edited volume on the complex intersections of heritage, development and digital technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Recent scholarship in development studies has highlighted the importance of new digital technologies as tools for furthering social justice, and has revealed continued economic and educational inequalities. How are information communication technologies (ITCs) being used, challenged, implemented, incorporated in grassroots and institutional heritage development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Submissions should explore the implications for and impact of any form of digital media on teaching, policy, development and scholarship, including but not restricted to – digital/digitized materials, specific software, social media, virtual environments, audio or visual media, and the internet – on heritage, historic and cultural conservation, and development.
Essayists are encouraged to address these among other questions through inter-, multi-, trans-disciplinary approaches in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Possible topics for (but not limited to) essays include:
• Teaching digital and virtual heritage as a subject
• Distance learning
• Digital texts and editions
• Mapping software/Spatial Humanities
• Collaboration (Community, across disciplines, etc)
• Virtual worlds
• Digital storytelling
• Unintended consequences of using digital media
• Authorial/Ownership issue
• Creative commons
• Ethics and digital media
• Access issues / digital divides
• Social media/social networking
• Technologies of colonialism
• Email and the historical record
• Mobile technologies (cell phones, PDAs)
• Cyberculture(s) and Race
• Politics of knowledge; new knowledges
• Globalization and digital media
• Portability of learning materials
• Class/race/gender/nation and digital media
• Digital media and the arts
• Personal vulnerability in the digital world
• Creating digital media
• Immediacy/Ubiquity of information
• Discipline(ary) shifts
Send submissions or inquiries as attachments in MS Word (.doc & .docx) or Rich Text (RTF) to both: Marla L. Jaksch, Ph.D. (jakschm@tcnj.edu) & Angel David Nieves, Ph.D. (anieves@hamilton.edu), Editors.
Authors will be notified by February 15, 2011. Final essays of 7,500-12,000 words will be required by May 15, 2011.
Deadline: 31 October 2010
The purpose of the programme is the qualification of young professionals and junior executives in international management competencies. During a twelve-month stay in Germany, a nine-month internship in one of the participating companies forms the core of the programme. The practical training gives participants the opportunity to gain first-hand experience of management practice and to participate in economic, social and organisational change processes and will enable them to establish a network between cooperation partners from their home companies and German companies.
The programme will be conducted in German.
Objectives of the programme
The participants:
* Become acquainted with the functioning of and working processes in German enterprises.
* Know the potentials of the German economy and are capable of estimating the potentials of cooperation with their home countries.
* Broaden their know-how and management competencies and are able to initiate and implement change processes.
* Reflect working and living conditions in their home countries based on the experiences in Germany.
* Contribute to mutual learning processes between Germans and themselves.
* Establish a network of cooperation partners for German companies in their home countries
Qualifications
* University degree in Economics, Business Administration, Engineering and Banking, Communication/Media, HR, Law, Sales, Marketing; Postgraduate Degree (MBA) is an advantage.
* Usually 2-5 years of relevant work experience.
* Excellent English language skills.
* Preferably basic knowledge of the German language.
* Not older than 35 years and physically fit.
* Female candidates are welcome