[Sci-tech-public] Reminder: Today at 5 pm -- Connected Publics: Power and Politics in a Networked Age

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Science and Democracy, a lecture series aimed at exploring both the promised
benefits or our era's most salient scientific and technological
breakthroughs and the potentially harmful consequences of developments that
are inadequately understood, debated, or managed by politicians, lay
publics, and policy institutions.

"Connected Publics: Power and Politics in a Networked Age”

A Panel Discussion Featuring:
Yochai Benkler, the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at
Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and
Society
Antoine Picon, Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at
the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Lucy Suchman, professor of anthropology of science and technology in the
Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, and co-director of
Lancaster's Centre for Science Studies
Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of
Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at
MIT and the founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and
Self

Moderated by:
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science & Technology Studies,
Harvard Kennedy School

TODAY
5:00 - 7:00p

Piper auditorium, Gund Hall
48 Quincy Street

Harvard University



How do the new forms of connectivity enabled by the internet affect flows of
power in society? Does electronic communication create new forms of
self-identification, new political sensibilities, or new avenues of
empowerment? Or do old hierarchies get reinforced and familiar divisions,
such as those between male and female or right and left, get more firmly
entrenched through new routines? How do design choices affect relationships
of power, for example, by selecting who should be connected to whom and
across what sorts of spaces? Drawing on studies of teenagers and
professional designers, cities and the blogosphere, this distinguished panel
will lead us on a fascinating journey across today's changing public
spheres. They will offer tantalizing glimpses into the democratic
imaginations taking shape in cyberspace.


This event is organized by the Program on Science, Technology, and Society,
at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-sponsored by the School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences, the Graduate School of Design, and the Harvard
University Center for the Environment.  For more information on Science,
Technology, and Society events at Harvard University, please visit:
<http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/> www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/

This event is free and open to the public. See:
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/connectedpublics.htm


Contact:
Lisa Matthews
Events Coordinator
Harvard University Center for the Environment

24 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
lisa_matthews at harvard.edu
p. 617-495-8883
f. 617-496-0425





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