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Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 01:44:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Evan Korth <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Computers_and_society_announcements] David Bollier I am not currently teaching Computers and Society and the semester will be over, but when my friend Aram Sinnreich called me with an opportunity to host David Bollier at NYU I could not resist. On Monday, May 18th 7:00pm-9:00pm, David Bollier will speak about the themes of his new book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (New Press). The book is the first comprehensive history of the "free culture" movement and "sharing economy" that is empowering ordinary people, disrupting markets and changing politics and culture. Bollier will talk about the rise of free and open source software, Creative Commons licenses, the new forms of non-market creativity (Wikipedia, blogs, remix music, videos) as well as fascinating innovations in open science, open education and "open business models." David Bollier is a leading American activist, author, blogger and proponent of "free culture" on the Internet and the commons. He is an editor of Onthecommons.org and Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Bollier is also co-founder of Public Knowledge, a Washington, D.C., organization that advocates for the public's stake in the Internet and copyright law, and the author of Silent Theft, Brand Name Bullies, and four other books. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. More about the book can be found at the website www.viralspiral.cc. More about Bollier can be found at www.bollier.org. Hosted by Aram Sinnreich and Evan Korth Sponsored by : ACM-NYU, Free Culture, ISOC-NY, WinC Details: Date: Monday, May 18, 2009 Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Courant Institute (Warren Weaver Hall) Room 109 Street: 251 Mercer Street Hope to see you there. e. PS There is an amazing event coming up at our Law School in June called the Open Video Conference. Check out the line-up. Its going to be awesome. Details: Open Video Conference June 19-20, 2009 NYU Law School (Vanderbilt Hall) 40 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 http://openvideoconference.org/ _______________________________________________ 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
