Many thanks, Kathleen! On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Kathleen Barcos <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard > Dean to Barack Obama and the 2012 Elections > *Liberation Technology Seminar Series > * > > Date and Time > September 27, 2012 > 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM > > Availability > Open to the public > No RSVP required > > > Speaker > *Daniel Kreiss* - Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and > Mass Communication at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > Hi Jillian- It is suppose to be a poster for the upcoming Liberation > Technology seminar- I will send one out each week. It turns out last year > half could not read the"just type" so this year I bet half will not be able > to read "the poster"- Apologies for the "tech glitch" ( I also am working > off of 2003 system) > > *Abstract > *Drawing on open-ended interviews with more than sixty political > staffers, accounts of practitioners, and fieldwork, in this talk I present > the previously untold history of the uptake of new media in Democratic > electoral campaigning from 2000 to 2012. I follow a group of > technically-skilled Internet staffers who came together on the Howard Dean > campaign and created a series of innovations in campaign organization, > tools, and practice. After the election, these individuals founded an array > of consulting firms and training organizations and staffed a number of > prominent Democratic campaigns. In the process, they carried their > innovations across Democratic politics and contributed to a number of > electoral victories, including Barack Obama's historic bid for the > presidency, and currently occupy senior leadership positions in the > president's re-election campaign. This history provides a lens for > understanding the organizations, tools, and practices that are shaping the > 2012 electoral cycle. > > In detailing this history, I analyze the role of innovation, > infrastructure, and organization in electoral politics. I show how the > technical and organizational innovations of the Dean and Obama campaigns > were the product of the movement of staffers between fields, organizational > structures that provided spaces for technical development, and incentives > for experimentation. I reveal how Dean's former staffers created an > infrastructure for Democratic new media campaigning after the 2004 > elections that helped transfer knowledge, practice, and tools across > electoral cycles and campaigns. Finally, I detail how organizational > contexts shaped the uptake of tools by the Obama campaign in 2008 and 2012, > analyze the emergence of data systems and managerial practices that > coordinate collective action, and show how digital cultural work mobilizes > supporters and shapes the meaning of electoral participation. > > I conclude by discussing the relationship between technological change and > democratic practice, showing how from Howard Dean to Barack Obama, new > media have provided campaigns with new ways to find and engage supporters, > to run their internal operations, and to translate the energy and > enthusiasm generated by candidates and political opportunities into the > staple resources of American electioneering. While these tools have > facilitated a resurgence in political activity among the electorate, this > participation has come in long institutionalized domains: fundraising, > volunteer canvassing, and voter mobilization. Meanwhile, participation is > premised on sophisticated forms of data profiling, targeted persuasive > communications, and computational managerial practices that coordinate > collective action. As such, I argue that the uptake of new media in > electoral campaigning is a hybrid form of organizing politics that combines > both management and empowerment. > > *Daniel Kreiss* is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and > Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. > Kreiss's research explores the impact of technological change on the public > sphere and political practice. In *Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting > of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama *(Oxford > University Press, 2012)*, *Kreiss presents the history of new media and > Democratic Party political campaigning over the last decade. Kreiss is an > affiliated fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and > received a Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University. Kreiss's work > has appeared in *New Media and Society*, *Critical Studies in Media > Communication*, *The Journal of Information Technology and Politics*, and > *The International Journal of Communication*, in addition to other > academic journals. > > Location > Wallenberg Theater > Wallenberg Hall > 450 Serra Mall, Building 160 > Stanford, Ca 94305-2055 > > On 9/27/2012 11:23 AM, Jillian C. York wrote: > > That just looks like (see attached screenshot) to me. What's it supposed > to say? > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Yosem Companys <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >> > > > > -- > US: +1-857-891-4244 | NL: +31-657086088 > site: jilliancyork.com <http://jilliancyork.com/>* | * > twitter: @jilliancyork* * > > "We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want > the seemingly impossible to become a reality" - *Vaclav Havel* > > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- US: +1-857-891-4244 | NL: +31-657086088 site: jilliancyork.com <http://jilliancyork.com/>* | * twitter: @jilliancyork* * "We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality" - *Vaclav Havel*
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