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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:01:19 -0500 (EST) From: Evan Korth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ACM chapter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],women-in-computing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Computers_and_society_announcements] Andrew Rasiej: Democracy, Civic Action, and Politics in a Networked World, Wednesday 3:30, room 109 X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Rasiej will deliver the last in class guest lecture of the Computers and Society series this semester on Wednesday at 3:30 in room 109. Andrew Rasiej is a social entrepreneur, Founder of Personal Democracy Forum, and co-founder of techPresident. He has served as an adviser to Senator Barack Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Tom Daschle, Congressman Dick Gephardt, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on the use of Information Technology for campaign and policy purposes. Mr. Rasiej also maintains the position of senior technology adviser for the Sunlight Foundation. About the talk: The Internet and the phenomenon of social networking platforms like Facebook, MySpace, plus the rich media tools like YouTube, have given the average political proselytizer new powers of persuasion that are resetting the political roadmap for not only the candidates and their parties, but also for the main stream media which is trying to cover and report on them. Just like we are seeing technology reshape the music and entertainment industries, information technologies are empowering people to use the massive networks that are being spawned to fundamentally change politics and soon governance itself. Political opinion in our society is formed mostly through people talking to each other. These conversations happen in all kinds of typical places, like dining tables, water coolers, playgrounds, VFW halls, bars and coffee shop counters, and even over the back fence. Like they have for generations, those conversations are happened in the 2008 election cycle too. However, this year we are saw a new powerful force of a networked public sphere emerge that is taking many of those conversations and putting them on steroids. Now that the 2008 election is over, this newly empowered citizenry will start to demand a seat at the table of governance and will upend the political power structures of the 20th century and challenge, unions, lobbyists, and special interests that do not heed the power of the technologies and the voices they link and amplify. Hope to see you there. e. PS One talk remains for the semester: Michel Bauwens - Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 - 7:00pm _______________________________________________ Computers_and_society_announcements mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/computers_and_society_announcements </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
