Thursday, November 10, 6:30PM
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St. 2nd Floor
The "Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group" is a forum for fellows and affiliates of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to discuss their ongoing research.
This month's presenters will include:
Empower Public Sphere with ICTs--A Chinese Perspective
The Internet and digital technology have provided NGOs with unprecedented opportunities to reach more people than ever. In China, NGOs are becoming more and more apt to use ICT to disseminate information and organize activities. At the same time, government is under greater exposure to the public in dealing with public events. In my talk, I will use my own NGO experiences as well as images, videos and social media sources to illustrate the dynamic interaction between the government and NGOs as well as the civil society in China.
Jia Wang, Berkman Research Fellow. She has been a Department Director of the Open Constitution Initiative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Constitution_Initiative), one of the most influential legal NGOs in China. As a Berkman fellow, she will conduct research on the development of the public sphere in cyberspace and the influence of the Internet as well as various social media on the political ecology in China.