European media, technology and everyday life network (EMTEL)

Th objective of this project is to investigate the realities and dynamics of the User Friendly Information Society. the project will provide policy makers and market managers, as well as the academic community, with empirically grounded evidence of the social dynamics of the emerging Information Society and on the new ways of living and working that this makes possible. The project will also aim to build a model for the analysis of the relationship between technological and social change in Europe. Each partner in the network will take primary reponsibility for research projects in one thematic area: Youth and e-commerce; Ubiiquitous; ICTs and the flexibilities of every day life; the WWW and public communication; ICTs and participation, Minority Media and ICT and The less abled in everyday life. The project will report on the methodologies adopted in the research and the mechanisms of their integration. It will reflect on the strenghts and weaknesses of the different approaches and advance recommendations on methodology appropriate to the development of research in this area. The network will provide training for 7 post-doctoral researchers and 1 doctoral level researcher.