[NYCInfoLaw] Computers_and_society_announcements] Andrew Rasiej: Democracy, Civic Action, and Politics in a Networked World, Wednesday 3:30, room 109]]

[Gabriella Coleman]

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Subject: [Computers_and_society_announcements] Andrew Rasiej: Democracy,
Civic Action, and Politics in a Networked World, Wednesday 3:30, room 109
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:01:19 -0500 (EST)
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Andrew Rasiej will deliver the last in class guest lecture of the
Computers and Society series this semester on Wednesday at 3:30 in room
109. Warren Weaver Hall
251 Mercer Street



Andrew Rasiej is a social entrepreneur, Founder of Personal Democracy
Forum, and co-founder of techPresident. He has served as an adviser to
Senator Barack Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Tom Daschle,
Congressman Dick Gephardt, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on the use of
Information Technology for campaign and policy purposes. Mr. Rasiej also
maintains the position of senior technology adviser for the Sunlight
Foundation.

About the talk:

The Internet and the phenomenon of social networking platforms like
Facebook, MySpace, plus the rich media tools like YouTube, have given the
average political proselytizer new powers of persuasion that are resetting
the political roadmap for not only the candidates and their parties, but
also for the main stream media which is trying to cover and report on
them.

Just like we are seeing technology reshape the music and entertainment
industries, information technologies are empowering people to use the
massive networks that are being spawned to fundamentally change politics
and soon governance itself.

Political opinion in our society is formed mostly through people talking
to each other. These conversations happen in all kinds of typical places,
like dining tables, water coolers, playgrounds, VFW halls, bars and coffee
shop counters, and even over the back fence. Like they have for
generations, those conversations are happened in the 2008 election cycle
too.

However, this year we are saw a new powerful force of a networked public
sphere emerge that is taking many of those conversations and putting them
on steroids.

Now that the 2008 election is over, this newly empowered citizenry will
start to demand a seat at the table of governance and will upend the
political power structures of the 20th century and challenge, unions,
lobbyists, and special interests that do not heed the power of the
technologies and the voices they link and amplify.

Hope to see you there.

e.

PS One talk remains for the semester:

Michel Bauwens     - Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 - 7:00pm
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Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor
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New York University
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_______________________________________________
Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor
Department of Media, Culture, & Communication
New York University
239 Greene St, 7th floor
NY NY 10003
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/