Many, many apologies for yet another email, but it just came to my attention that some people just received this today, when I sent it out last night. So, this is for TODAY'S event (January 14, 2009) from 4-5pm in MGH 228.
WHAT: CIS is hosting a monthly Guest Lecture Series, and this is the first Lecture in the series. The format will include a presentation by a UW researcher (faculty/staff/student) accompanied by two panel members from other disciplines. *WHERE: Mary Gates Hall 228* WHEN: January 14th, 2008, 4-5pm Thank you, and again, apologies for another email! Melody On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Melody Clark <melclark at u.washington.edu>wrote: > Hello all! > > I apologize for any inconveniences, but we just had a last minute room > change for tomorrow's speaker event. Instead of Mary Gates Hall 241, we > will now be in Mary Gates Hall 228. We will have signs in place at MGH 241, > but I wanted to give you all the heads up. > > Thank you, and hope to see you tomorrow! > Melody > > GUEST LECTURE SERIES > ONLINE BUDDHIST COMMUNITY, AUTHORITY AND IDENTITY > > WHAT: CIS is hosting a monthly Guest Lecture Series, and this is the first > Lecture in the series. The format will include a presentation by a UW > researcher (faculty/staff/student) accompanied by two panel members from > other disciplines. > *WHERE: Mary Gates Hall 228* > WHEN: January 14th, 2008, 4-5pm > > LECTURER: Laura Busch ? Dept. of Communications > > TITLE: Online Buddhist Community, Authority and Identity: a case study on > how the process of spiritualizing technology impact religious identity and > authority in a Buddhist Web forum. > > ABSTRACT: This study analyzes the Buddhist message forum E-sangha, to > analyze how this forum's founder and moderators 'spiritualized the Internet' > using contemporary, narratives of global Buddhist community, and in doing > so, provided these actors authority in determining the boundaries of > Buddhist orthodoxy and identity. Through a qualitative structural and > textual analysis of E-sangha Web space, this study demonstrates how > religious community narratives provide Web producers and forum moderators > the opportunity to frame Web environments as sacred community spaces, which > inherently allows those in control of the site the authority to set the > boundaries of religious identity and hence, who can take part in the > community. > > PANEL MEMBERS: Gad Barzilai ? Jackson School's Law, Societies, and Justice > Program, Rucha Ambikar ? Center for Information & Society > > > Box 354985 > Seattle, WA 98195 > Tel 206.616.9101 > Fax 206.616.5149 > cisinfo at u.washington.edu > www.cis.washington.edu > > > > > -- > Melody Clark > MLIS Candidate 2010 - University of Washington > Coordinator - Center for Information and Society > mobile: 206.303.7910 > email: melody.r.clark at gmail.com or melclark at u.washington.edu > > > > -- Melody Clark MLIS Candidate 2010 - University of Washington Coordinator - Center for Information and Society mobile: 206.303.7910 email: melody.r.clark at gmail.com or melclark at u.washington.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/private/change/attachments/20090114/6a005d26/attachment.html>
