From anita1 at MIT.EDU Mon Apr 19 12:38:16 2004 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:38:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Itself] Meeting Next Tuesday Message-ID: Hi All, I wanted to call a meeting for next Tuesday, April 27th, from 11-12:30p. Alan Davidson, the Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology (which is a Washington, DC public interest organization working to promote civil liberties on the Internet) has been a visiitng scholar this semester at STS, and he's planning to join us for this upcoming meeting. We can spend the first hour of the meeting discussing Paulina Borsook's pop ethnography of Silicon Valley politics and culture, "Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High- Tech," with Alan. I'll make copies of portions of the text and have them ready for the group by Thursday from E51-070. And I'd like to spend the last half hour of the meeting finalizing speaker plans for Technology and Self conference scheduled for this Fall. Would folks email me back tp let me know if you can make this meeting -- I'd like to plan a light lunch with soda if our budget can accommodate it. So I hope to see folks soon! Best, Anita From anita1 at MIT.EDU Sun Apr 25 20:58:45 2004 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 20:58:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Itself] Meeting Rescheduled Message-ID: Hi All, Just a note to mention that because of a schedule conflict of Alan Davidson's, we're going reschedule the meeting planned for this coming Tuesday. The new date and time will likely be next Tuesday, May 4th -- and I'll send out an email later this week to confirm the time and place. I'll have the readings ready this Wednesday from E51-070 (apologies to those who tried to pick up the readings earlier this week). Cheers, Anita From anita1 at MIT.EDU Mon Apr 26 15:14:53 2004 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:14:53 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Itself] STS Special Seminar: Liberty by Design (fwd) Message-ID: Please feel free to pass this notice on to others who may be interested in attending. Liberty by Design: The Internet as a Technology of Freedom and Control Alan Davidson Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology Sponsored by the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT Tuesdays: March 16 & 30 and April 13 & 27, 2004 4:00 -- 6:00 p.m., Room E51-151, MIT Old conventional wisdom states that the Internet is an unstoppable force for freedom. The new conventional wisdom is that the Internet can be a powerful tool of control. Largely by happenstance, the original design of the Internet open, decentralized, and extensible -- has supported Western democratic ideals: free expression, individual privacy, and participation by a diversity of speakers, creators, and technology developers. Today many of these values are now threatened by policy choices being debated in government and technology choices being debated by product developers and technology standards bodies. How do we reconcile these competing visions of the Internet''s potential? This series will explore the ways in which the Internet's potential as a technology of freedom is being influenced by current technology and policy debates -- and seek to chart a path for developing an Internet designed with liberty in mind. Seminar 1 - Tuesday, March 16, 2004 * Free Speech by Design: Next Generation Internet Content Regulation Seminar 2 - Tuesday, March 30 * Privacy by Design: The Golden Age of Government Surveillance Seminar 3 - Tuesday, April 13 * Privacy by Design: Corporate Data Collection in the Digital Age FINAL SESSION THIS WEEK --Tuesday, April 27 Fair Use by Design: Copyright and Creative Production The threat of digital piracy is leading to calls for new technological locks over copyrighted works -- threatening to constrain valuable uses of information and create new gatekeepers over content online. This session will examine the policy debate over the -- broadcast flag -- and other forms of digital rights management, and the possibilities for designing systems that reconcile content protection with the public's interest in innovation and access to information. Alan Davidson is Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington, DC public interest organization working to promote civil liberties and human rights on the Internet. Mr. Davidson is a Visiting Scholar this semester at STS. From anita1 at MIT.EDU Mon Apr 26 18:50:32 2004 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 18:50:32 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Itself] The Corporation - A Screening (fwd) Message-ID: THE WEATHERHEAD CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS CANADA SEMINAR Presents a private screening* of the 2004 documentary THE CORPORATION with JOEL BAKAN Writer/Co-Creator 4-7 p.m. - Monday, May 3 Rooms 2 & 3 - Harvard Faculty Club Cosponsored by the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School *PLEASE NOTE: This event is free, but seating is limited. Please contact the Seminar for reservations canada at wcfia.harvard.edu (617) 495-3671 One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic, and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy, and the Communist Party in other times and places, the corporation is today's dominant institution. But history humbles dominant institutions. All have been crushed, belittled, or absorbed into some new order. The corporation is unlikely to be the first to defy history. In this complex and highly entertaining documentary, Mark Achbar, co-director of the influential and inventive Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, teams up with co-director Jennifer Abbott and writer Joel Bakan to examine the far-reaching repercussions of the corporation's increasing preeminence. The film, winner of the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award in World Cinema-Documentary, is based on Joel Bakan's bestselling book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (Published by Simon & Schuster) and is a timely, critical inquiry. Featuring illuminating interviews with Noam Chomsky, Peter Drucker, Milton Friedman, Michael Moore, Vandana Shiva, Howard Zinn, and many others, THE CORPORATION charts the spectacular rise of an institution aimed at achieving specific economic goals as it also recounts victories against this apparently invincible force. Joel Bakan is professor of law at the University of British Columbia, and an internationally recognized legal scholar. A former Rhodes Scholar and law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada, he has law degrees from Oxford, Dalhousie, and Harvard. His work examines the social, economic, and political dimensions of law, and he has published in leading legal and social science journals as well as in the popular press. The Canada Seminar is off the record, free and open to the public, and chaired by Professor Rosemary J. Coombe, the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, and Canada Research Chair in Law, Communications, and Cultural Studies. For more information, contact Program Coordinator Helen Clayton at: Canada at wcfia.harvard.edu (617) 495-3671. Weatherhead Center for International Affairs 1033 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/canada/schedule.asp -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Joel_Bakan.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 12764 bytes Desc: Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/itself/attachments/20040426/50ee63d6/attachment.pdf From anita1 at MIT.EDU Mon Apr 26 21:15:30 2004 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:15:30 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Itself] Meeting May 4th Message-ID: Hi All, Our next meeting is set for Tuesday, May 4th, from 11-12:30p, in the STS Reading Room in E51-191. We'll be spending the first hour of the meeting discussing Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish with Alan Davidson, the Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology. And we will spend the last half hour of the meeting finalizing speaker plans for Technology and Self conference scheduled for this Fall. I'll have copies of the excerpts from Cyberselfish ready to pick up from E51-070 tomorrow afternoon. Will folks email me back again to let me know if you can make this meeting so I can order lunch? Cheers, Anita From anita1 at MIT.EDU Tue Apr 27 13:45:37 2004 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:45:37 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Itself] Meeting May 4th (fwd) Message-ID: Hi All, Copies of the excerpt from Cyberselfish are now available from E51-070. We'll be reading the intro and chapter 1-2 -- and I also copied Chapter 3 on Wired Magazine, as optional reading. Cheers, anita ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:15:30 -0400 (EDT) From: anita chan To: itself at mit.edu Cc: abd at cdt.org Subject: Meeting May 4th Hi All, Our next meeting is set for Tuesday, May 4th, from 11-12:30p, in the STS Reading Room in E51-191. We'll be spending the first hour of the meeting discussing Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish with Alan Davidson, the Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology. And we will spend the last half hour of the meeting finalizing speaker plans for Technology and Self conference scheduled for this Fall. I'll have copies of the excerpts from Cyberselfish ready to pick up from E51-070 tomorrow afternoon. Will folks email me back again to let me know if you can make this meeting so I can order lunch? Cheers, Anita From anita1 at MIT.EDU Wed Apr 28 18:29:57 2004 From: anita1 at MIT.EDU (anita chan) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:29:57 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Itself] Human Rights and Technology Conference- starts Thursday! (fwd) Message-ID: ******************************************* MIT: HUMAN RIGHTS AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE April 29-May 2, 2004 ******************************************* Using Technology To Enhance The Struggle For Human Rights ------------------ DISCUSSION PANELS ------------------ Thursday April 29 5:30-7pm ­ THREATS TO HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL REALM Building 66-110, 25 Ames Street http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg “Global Village: Entertainment or Empowerment” - Mark Lloyd, Visiting Scholar, MIT “I Sing the Body Detected” - Bill Staples, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas “Rise of the Autonomous Killing Machines” - Chris Csikszentmihalyi, The Media Lab, MIT Friday April 30 5:00-7pm ­ TECHNOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS Building 4-237 “Media Justice ­ Global justice” - Thenmozhi Soundarajan, Third World Majority “Hacktivism and Direct Action” - John Sellers, The Ruckus Society “Reclaim the Airwaves!” - Pete Tridish, Prometheus Radio Project For more detailed information: http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/conference ----------------------------- 2-DAYS OF HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS ----------------------------- Sat May 1 & Sun May 2 - BUILD YOUR OWN RADIO STATION FROM THE GROUND UP - LEARN HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN AFFORDABLE WI-FI INTERNET NETWORKS - HACKING AND HIGH PROFILE STUNTS - USING TECHNOLOGY TO MOBILIZE, ORGANIZE AND ENERGIZE PEOPLE - DIGITAL WITNESSING FOR DOMESTIC HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS - CULTURE JAMMING 101 - NON-VIOLENCE TRAINING - …and a whole lot more! Trainers include: - The Ruckus Society - Prometheus Radio Project - Syracuse Wireless - NYC Indymedia - Third World Majority Workshop registration begins at 9:00 am, 4th floor, Lobby 7, at the 77 Massachusetts Avenue entrance. Directions available on the website: http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/conference/directions.html Discussion Panels sponsored by: The MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice Weekend Workshops sponsored by: The Center for Reflective Community Practice. The Dougherty Foundation, Design That Matters (DtM), United Trauma Relief Special Thanks to: Technology and Culture Forum, The Organizers Collaborative and the Bard Human Rights Project YOU MUST PRE-REGISTER ON-LINE TO HOLD A SPACE: E-mail: gangolan at mit.edu cc: fricks at mit.edu Phone: (617) 258-7614 Susan Frick Program Assistant Program on Human Rights and Justice Massachusetts Institute of Technology E38-277, 292 Main Street Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 Tel: 617 258 7614 Fax: 617 452 3962 Email: fricks at mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/phrj