I'll look into this and get back to you. Thanks, Jennifer
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Alex Leavitt <[email protected]> wrote: > This looks super awesome; will it be livestreamed/filmed? > > Alex > > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jennifer Baek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I wanted to share with/invite all of you to an awesome event happening at >> New York Law School, put on by Personal Democracy Media and the Institute >> of Information Law and Policy. This is a great opportunity to hear >> luminaries speak about the rise of peer-to-peer collaborative culture as an >> impetus for achieving real social progress! But rather than me telling you >> what it's going to be about, I'm including a blurb about the event in this >> e-mail (see below). >> >> *REGISTER >> HERE<http://personaldemocracy.com/event/special-book-event-steven-johnson-rise-peer-progressive> >> .* >> >> *Students go for FREE. Enter Discount Code: NYLAW12* >> >> *Location: New York Law School, 185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013* >> >> *Date: Monday, 9/24/12* >> >> *Time: 7:30PM* >> >> I hope to see fellow SFC-ers there, and would love it if we could >> talk/hang afterwards. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jennifer >> -- >> Book Event: Steven Johnson on the Rise of the "Peer Progressive"Monday, >> September 24 - 7:30pm - New York Law School >> >> Is there a new political philosophy emerging from things like open source >> software development; massive community sharing hubs like Wikipedia, >> Kickstarter, and Reddit; peer-to-peer social networking; experiments in >> "Liquid Democracy," and the rapid spread of resource sharing tools like >> ZipCar, AirBnb and Car2go? Is it time to start talking about replacing the >> "welfare state" with the "partner state"? >> >> *On Monday September 24 at 7:30pm at the New York Law School*, we're >> looking forward to exploring all those questions and more with noted author >> Steven Johnson, whose new book *Future, >> Perfect*<http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2012/07/introducing-future-perfect.html>is >> must-reading for people who believe in the power of open, collaborative >> peer-to-peer networking to achieve real social progress. >> >> Johnson argues for a new breed of political beast: the "peer >> progressive." You may be one if you're wary of centralized control, whether >> that's in the hands of Big Government or Big Corporations or Big Labor, but >> you're not a free-market libertarian either because you believe that >> markets frequently fail to provide essential social goods. Peer >> progressives, Johnson argues, think the way the Internet itself >> works--nobody owns it, everyone can connect to it, anyone can improve on >> it--might offer a model for solving other problems. And they're struck by >> how voluntary associations that are organized non-hierarchically for >> non-financial goals like love, or social solidarity, or a shared passion >> (like Wikipedia) can scale to the size of millions of participants. >> >> Additional speakers contributing to the conversation include: >> >> - *Beth Noveck*, NY Law School Professor and served in the White >> House as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and >> founder and director of the White House Open Government Initiative >> - *Tina Rosenberg*, co-writer of the Fixes column at the New York >> Times online, and author of *Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can >> Transform the World* and the e-book *D for Deception* >> - *Clay Shirky*, NYU Professor of Interactive Telecommunications, and >> author of three books on social media: *Cognitive Surplus* (2010), *Here >> Comes Everybody* (2008), and *Voices from the Net* (1994) >> >> Moderated by *Micah L. Sifry*, PDM co-founder and editorial director. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Core mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/core >> >> >
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