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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=599 style='width:449.25pt'><tr><td width=599 valign=top style='width:449.25pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Surveillance and Citizenship</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:384.75pt'><td width=599 valign=top style='width:449.25pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:384.75pt'><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011<br>5-7 pm. <br><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E15">Bartos Theater</a><br>MIT Media Lab<br>20 Ames Street<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Digital technologies have exponentially expanded the power of government and corporations to keep tabs on citizens. But citizens in turn are exploiting new technologies to expose the activities of governments, companies and even each other. How does the persistence and ubiquity of surveillance in our digitizing world affect what it means to be a citizen? Does our emerging condition of constant surveillance encourage individuals to curtail how they speak and act -- or to offer <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>more</span></em> information? In what ways are the new forms of citizen surveillance and public witness instruments of democracy and transparency? In what ways are they the tools of distortion and propaganda for idealogues or special interest? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Speakers</span></strong><a name=speakers></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Our panel of three distinguished scholars will engage these and related questions on evolving notions of citizenship in the digital age. Panelists include <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/communication/faculty/braman.cfm"><span style='font-weight:normal'>Sandra Braman</span></a></span></strong>, a professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee who has written extensively on information technology, law and society; <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2011slandau.aspx"><span style='font-weight:normal'>Susan Landau</span></a></span></strong>, a visiting professor at Harvard University and author of <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies</span></em> recently published by The MIT Press; and <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.science.ucsb.edu/faculty/profile/473"><span style='font-weight:normal'>Marcos Novak</span></a></span></strong>, professor and artist at the University of California, Santa Barbara whose work explores the relationship between humans and technology. <br><br>MIT Center for Civic Media Director <b><a href="http://www.media.mit.edu/people/ethanz"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#990000;font-weight:normal'>Ethan Zuckerman</span></strong></a></b> will moderate.<br><br><span class=arial1>Co-sponsor: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/tac/">Technology and Culture Forum at MIT</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>===========================<br>Brad Seawell, Program Coordinator<br>MIT Communications Forum<br>14N-430<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>Cambridge, MA 02139<br>voice 617-253-3521<br>fax 617-253-6105<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>