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

[Luis Villa]

That's Wednesday the 19th, Biella, or the 26th? Also, any idea if it
will be problematic for non-NYU students to get into this building at
that time?

Luis

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Gabriella Coleman <biella at nyu.edu> wrote:
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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)
> From: Evan Korth <korth at cs.nyu.edu>
> To: ACM chapter <acm at cs.nyu.edu>,
> Computers_and_society_announcements at cs.nyu.edu, discuss at isoc-ny.org,
> women-in-computing <winc at cs.nyu.edu>, colloq at cs.nyu.edu
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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
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> 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.
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> About the talk:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Hope to see you there.
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> e.
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> PS One talk remains for the semester:
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> Michel Bauwens     - Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 - 7:00pm
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