> > Democratization and the Networked Public Sphere > * Panel Discussion with dana boyd, Trebor Scholz, and Ethan Zuckerman > > Friday, April 13, 2007, 6:30 8:30 p.m. > The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center > 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor > New York City > Admission: $8, free for all students, New School faculty, staff, > and alumni with valid ID > > This evening at the Vera List Center for Art & Politics will > discuss the potential of sociable media such as weblogs and social > networking sites to democratize society through > emerging cultures of broad participation. > > danah boyd will argue four points. 1) Networked publics are > changing the way public life is organized. 2) Our understandings of > public/private are being radically altered > 3) Participation in public life is critical to the functioning of > democracy. 4) We have destroyed youths' access to unmediated public > life. Why are we now destroying their access > to mediated public life? What consequences does this have for > democracy? > > Trebor Scholz will present the paradox of affective immaterial > labor. Content generated by networked publics was the main reason > for the fact that the top ten sites on the > World Wide Web accounted for most Internet traffic last year. > Community is the commodity, worth billions. The very few get even > richer building on the backs of the immaterial > labor of very very many. Net publics comment, tag, rank, forward, > read, subscribe, re-post, link, moderate, remix, share, > collaborate, favorite, write. They flirt, work, play, > chat, gossip, discuss, learn and by doing so they gain much: the > pleasure of creation, knowledge, micro-fame, a "home," friendships, > and dates. They share their life experiences > and archive their memories while context-providing businesses get > value from their attention, time, and uploaded content. Scholz will > argue against this naturalized "factory > without walls" and will demand for net publics to control their own > contributions. > > Ethan Zuckerman will present his work on issues of media and the > developing world, especially citizen media, and the technical, > legal, speech, and digital divide issues that go > alongside it. Starting out with a critique of cyberutopianism, > Zuckerman will address citizen media and activism in developing > nations, their potential for democratic change, the > ways that governments (and sometimes corporations) are pushing back > on their ability to democratize. > > About the Panelists: > > danah boyd is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at > the University of California-Berkeley and a fellow at the USC > Annenberg Center for Communications. Her > dissertation focuses on how American youth engage in networked > publics like MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Xanga, etc. In particular, > she is interested in how teens formulate a > presentation of self and negotiate socialization in mediated > contexts amidst invisible audiences. This work is funded by the > MacArthur Foundation as part of a broader grant on > digital youth and informal learning. > http://www.zephoria.org/ > > Trebor Scholz is a media theorist, artist, and activist who is > interested in the economics of sociable media and networked social > life in relation to politics and education. As > founder of the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC), he > contributed essays to several books, journals, and periodicals and > co-edited "The Art of Free Cooperation" > (forthcoming). He is currently professor and researcher in the > Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at > Buffalo and research fellow at the Hochschule > fuer Kunst und Gestaltung, Zurich (Switzerland). > http://collectivate.net/journalisms > > Ethan Zuckerman is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and > Society at Harvard Law School. His research focuses on the > distribution of attention in mainstream and new > media, and on the use of technology for international development. > With Rebecca MacKinnon, he leads a project called "Global Voices" > which focuses on using weblogs around > the world to close gaps in mainstream media coverage. In 2000, > Ethan founded Geekcorps, a technology volunteer corps that sends IT > specialists to work on projects in > developing nations, with a focus on West Africa. > http://ethanzuckerman.com/ > > * This event is presented on occasion of the Vera List Centers > program cycle on The Public Domain. > >
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