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<div>FYI, there is no ABCD-WWW meeting this month, but I thought this talk would be of interest. Thanks!</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><Tremonte>, Donna Tremonte <<a href="mailto:dtremont@oeb.harvard.edu">dtremont@oeb.harvard.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday, December 8, 2014 at 9:45 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:abcd-wit@abcd.harvard.edu">abcd-wit@abcd.harvard.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:abcd-wit@abcd.harvard.edu">abcd-wit@abcd.harvard.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[abcd-wit] THURSDAY - Inventing Sociable Media - Dec 11, noon, Lamont<br>
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<div style="font-size: medium;">Hello ABCD-WIT,</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium;">Just a friendly reminder about the talk this Thursday, Dec. 11th at noon with Dr. Judith Donath, founder of the </div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. </div>
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<div style="font-size: medium;">Also, if you are unable to attend the <a href="http://womensilab.com/womens-ilab-holiday-parties/">
networking event with @womensilab</a> and have old work clothes for donation to Dress For Success’ great cause (they especially need winter jackets, scarves and jewelry this season), bring them to the meeting on Thursday and I will bring them to the event.</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium;"><b>Title</b>: Inventing Sociable Media: How To Shape Online Interactions</div>
<div style="font-size: medium;"><b>Description</b>: Dr. Donath will be discussing the design of social media</div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">interfaces based on her experience of over 20 years. She created several</div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">of the earliest social applications for the web, and her work with the</div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">Sociable Media Group has been shown in museums and galleries worldwide.</div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">She is is known internationally for her writing on identity, interface</div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">design, and social communication. She'll be discussing past projects and</div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">lessons learned.</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium;">Please join us for what is sure to be a fascinating talk. We will begin promptly at 12:05pm and end by 1pm.</div>
<div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">NOTE: Attendees <i>without</i> a Harvard ID card need to </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mailto-3Adtremont-40oeb.harvard.edu&d=AAMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=y4xSmNRb1tNjvlg8AMpqYos_NWIfHwWBXV2VP92-2i0&m=p7zI7k4-O6KcURrTz1W-YtgjgjBtsYxA5ip06xDgRVU&s=_y06q8AF3toX0t-PIgHE_Ff7pGZh3zph4cqt5xQ-khc&e=" style="font-size: 14px;">RSVP</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> for
entry to the library.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: medium;"><b>When</b>: December 11th @ 12:00pm-1:00pm</div>
<div style="font-size: medium;"><b>Where</b>: Lamont Library, Forum Room</div>
<div style="font-size: medium;"><b>Misc</b>: Bring your own lunch</div>
<div style="font-size: medium;"><b>Bio</b>: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__vivatropolis.com_Judith_&d=AAMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=y4xSmNRb1tNjvlg8AMpqYos_NWIfHwWBXV2VP92-2i0&m=p7zI7k4-O6KcURrTz1W-YtgjgjBtsYxA5ip06xDgRVU&s=D52f_xyGUTL8OjpE0G3gvE_FaYfQ-dgQnXFDj-Q1_L0&e="></a><a href="http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/judith/">Judith
Donath</a> synthesizes knowledge from urban design, evolutionary</div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">biology and cognitive science to design innovative interfaces for on-line </div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">communities and virtual identities. A Harvard Berkman Faculty Fellow and</div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">formerly director of the MIT Media Lab's Sociable Media Group, she is known </div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">internationally for her writing on identity, interface design, and social </div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">communication. She is the creator of many pioneering online social applications; </div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">her work and that of the Sociable Media Group have been shown in museums </div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">and galleries worldwide. She is the author of <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__amzn.to_NXFIFt&d=AAMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=y4xSmNRb1tNjvlg8AMpqYos_NWIfHwWBXV2VP92-2i0&m=p7zI7k4-O6KcURrTz1W-YtgjgjBtsYxA5ip06xDgRVU&s=Kwy0nlSOHk0Jt7bgSEIDwn1wrfzOZTqK29cEkE43vj8&e=">The
Social Machine: Designs for Living</a></div>
<div style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__amzn.to_NXFIFt&d=AAMFAg&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=y4xSmNRb1tNjvlg8AMpqYos_NWIfHwWBXV2VP92-2i0&m=p7zI7k4-O6KcURrTz1W-YtgjgjBtsYxA5ip06xDgRVU&s=Kwy0nlSOHk0Jt7bgSEIDwn1wrfzOZTqK29cEkE43vj8&e=">Online</a> (MIT
Press, 2014). Her current research focuses on how we signal identity in </div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">both mediated and face-to-face interactions, and she is working on a book about </div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">how the economics of honesty shape our world. She received her doctoral and </div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">master's degrees in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and her bachelor's degree in </div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">History from Yale University.</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium;">We hope to see you there!</div>
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<div style="font-size: medium;">All the best,</div>
<div style="font-size: medium;">Donna and Kristin</div>
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