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<span class="" style=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="">Karen L Gardner <<a href="mailto:kgardner@mit.edu" class="">kgardner@mit.edu</a>><br class="">
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<span class="" style=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span class="" style=""><b class="">Please forward: Social Media and Democracy: "Where Do We Go From Here?" (Wed, 9/12, 430pm, 10-250)
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<span class="" style=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="" style="">August 22, 2018 at 3:40:15 PM EDT<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="" style="font-family:Optima">Dear MIT Community,</span>
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<div class="" style="font-family:ArialMT"><span class="" style="font-family:Optima">You are cordially invited to the inaugural event of MIT’s new </span><i class="" style="font-family:Optima">Computational Cultures Initiative</i><span class="" style="font-family:Optima">,
sponsored by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. MIT’s doctoral program in History, Anthropology, and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) presents a panel discussion focused on the social, political, and technological
entanglements of social media and democracy. </span></div>
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<div class="" style="font-family:ArialMT"><font face="Optima" class="">The event features a moderated panel of four leading scholars specialized in researching and analyzing the infusion of social media platforms in our everyday social and political lives,
including an audience Q&A session. Following the lecture, there will be a smaller seminar for graduate students.</font></div>
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<div class="" style="text-align:center"><span class="" style="font-family:Optima">MIT HASTS’s Democracy, Citizenship, and Technology Series presents: </span><br class="" style="text-align:start">
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<div class="" style="text-align:center"><b class="" style="font-family:Optima">Social Media and Democracy</b><br class="" style="text-align:start">
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<div class=""><span class="" style="font-family:Optima">Panel Discussion: 4:30pm - 6:30pm</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family:Optima">Graduate Seminar: 7:00pm </span><br class="" style="text-align:start">
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<div class=""><font face="Optima" class=""><i class="">*Pizza will be served for all attendees following the panel discussion at 6:30pm, outside the hall. </i></font><span class="" style="font-family:Optima"><i class="">Registration is not required but helpful
for planning purposes. Please register your attendance (at no charge):</i> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mitsocial-media-and-democracy-colloquium-tickets-49218079601" class="" style="font-family:Optima">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mitsocial-media-and-democracy-colloquium-tickets-49218079601</a></div>
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of digital platforms like social media and related technologies. Such digital platforms are the spaces and places that increasingly provide the dominant means of encountering and exchanging ideas, finding news and information, and for creating social and political
communities. Although these platforms can promise to serve a public function, they are nonetheless dominantly owned and operated by the private sphere, leading to a number of legal, ethical, and broadly techno-social problems as evidenced by recent revelations
of the relationship between Facebook and the 2016 American presidential elections.</span><br class="">
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<span class="" style="font-family:Optima; text-indent:36pt">Digital platforms are thus not easily classifiable under familiar categories: are they similar to traditional media (press and TV)? Are they considered a utility company (ISPs), providing essential
services for internet users? What promising potentials and subsequent futures might certain iteration of social media platforms offer towards creating and maintaining the public and political spheres that are central to the evolution of twenty-first century
democracies? How might these platforms be harnessed generatively, as well critiqued?</span><span class="" style="font-family:Optima">”</span></div>
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