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

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>From: "Harvard STS" <harvard.sts at gmail.com>
>To: "Harvard STS Circle" <harvard-sts at lists.ksg.harvard.edu>
>Subject: Today at 5 pm -- Connected Publics: 
>Power and Politics in a Networked Age
>Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:33:31 -0400
>
>REMINDER:
>
>Today at 5 pm -- Science & Democracy Lecture
>================================
>
>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, Berkman Professor of 
>Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law 
>School, 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
>
>Wednesday, March 11
>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/>http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/
>
>This event is free and open to the public. See: 
><http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/connectedpublics.htm>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.htm>lisa_matthews at harvard.edu
>p. 617-495-8883
>f. 617-496-0425
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