Social Media - from The Well to Facebook Wednesday 27th February 2013 6.30pm-10.00pm
Arts Catalyst 50-54 Clerkenwell Road EC1M 5PS Has social media lived up to its original liberating and communitarian promise of the net? Early pioneers of the internet hailed this new medium as the harbinger of person to person media. A new media that will destroy government and corporate hierarchies and allow us to create new identities and have more freedom. Less prosaic perhaps but even more pervasive has been the claims by many others that it will usher in an age of media and marketing that is more communitarian, conversational and authentic. But is today's social media debasing culture, destroying important institutions (like mainstream media) and in fact wrecking our relationships and communities? Eva Pascoe will chair a debate with Wessel van Rensburg (RAAK), Lee Bryant (Headshift) and Paolo Gerbaudo (Kings College). Speakers: Wessel van Rensburg (Raak) will argue that social media is indeed completely reshaping media, but in ways the pioneers did not foresee. http://wewillraakyou.com/ Lee Bryant (Headshift) will argue his case through his personal experience of how social media is changing business and government in fundamental ways. http://www.headshift.com/ Paulo Gerbaudo (Kings College and author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism) will approach this debate from his personal research into the Arab Spring and Indignados movement. http://www.tweetsandthestreets.org/ Chair: Eva Pascoe (Cyberia/Easynet) Eva Pascoe was a member of the first online community The Well and founder of Cyberia, London's first Internet Cafe in 1994. She is also co-founder of EasyNet. Cybersalon A monthly meeting of minds on how the Internet is shaping society: for entrepreneurs, techies, activists, academics, artists and designers. AND! We're collecting work from then to now to create a New Media Memory archive with a leading UK university. We want your old hardware and software! --- Speakers, discussion, exhibits, presentations and performances --- and a cheap bar. The last Wednesday of every month - 6.30pm-10.00pm http://www.cybersalon.org/ Admission free. Please book your place: http://cybersalon.eventbrite.co.uk/ In partnership with: Media Department at Middlesex University:http://www.mdx.ac.uk/ Easynet:http://www.easynet.com/____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: [email protected] To be removed from the list, send any message to: [email protected] For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.cybersalon.org/lists/info/announce -- ---> A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;) Other reviews,articles,interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield -- online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org Furtherfield Gallery -- Finsbury Park (London). http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield
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