Via Nicolas Nova, I see there's a workshop at CSCW 2006 on "Media Space: Reflecting on 20 Years:"
Since the first media spaces were created in the 1980's, technology has changed and affordable real-time desktop conferencing is a reality. But what happened to the ideas of the media space?
While there are ubiquitous cell-phone cameras, web-cams, iChat, architectural scale displays, the Internet, and globalized work, how do these current technologies and collaborative experiences look like and look different than those of a media space? What is the current state of systems that employ socially negotiated control instead of enforcing an established policy? What is the meaning of "awareness" and "presence" today? We encourage those who worked on the first media spaces and those who re-discover these ideas in current research to participate in a one day workshop held in conjunction with CSCW 2006 in Banff.
Sounds very interesting, both as a data-point and piece of primary research, and as a place to try out some ideas about the end of cyberspace.
What's Banff like, I wonder? It looks kind of like a Canadian version of Aspen. Actually, it looks great. Thanks, Nicolas!
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