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

[Gabriella Coleman]

Sorry! I was forwarding and did not realize there was no date.

It is the 19th and it is no problem for non-NYU students to get into 
building though you need to flash something ID-like to the guard!

The Mercer entrance is closed so you will have to enter via the 
courtyard parallel to Mercer. There are signs that will help lead the way.

Biella

Luis Villa wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> 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
>>
>> 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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New York University
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