Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup
BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
May 27, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media
[1] [TUESDAY 6/2/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series on "Beyond Objectivity: Global Voices and the Future of Journalism" with Lokman Tsui, Berkman Fellow (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/06/tsui)
[2] [6/3-6/6/09] Beyond Broadcast 2009 Conference: Public Service Media from Local to Global at USC Annenberg (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/beyondbroadcast/2009/06/conference)
[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on GLOBAL VOICES AND THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM
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6/2/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu).
Topic: Beyond Objectivity: Global Voices and the Future of Journalism
Guest: Lokman Tsui, Berkman Fellow
This project attempts to help us understand the cultures, practices and people of a new kind of news production environment: Global Voices, an international project that brings together and translates blogs and citizen media from around the world in order to, “aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore.”
Drawing on Global Voices as an exemplar, I argue that we need to move beyond objectivity towards "hospitality" in pursuing the potential of journalism in a networked world. Roger Silverstone defines hospitality as the "ethical obligation to listen." Indeed, in a world where the internet makes it so much easier for everybody to speak, Global Voices asks us: "The world is talking. Are you listening?" What is ultimately at stake is perhaps best described by Silverstone, who argues that, "it is only by attending to the realities of global communication, but also and even more so to its possibilities, that we will be able to reverse what otherwise will be a downward spiral towards increasing global incomprehension and inhumanity.”
Global Voices shows us is that we would do ourselves a disservice by limiting our imagination to the ideal type of journalism from a previous era. Without expanding our imagination, we cannot hope to understand how the internet might alter the constraints of the relationship between journalism and democracy for the better. Indeed, communication scholar James Carey helped us understand that "the meaning of democracy changes over time because forms of communication with which to conduct politics change."
This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/06/tsui
BEYOND BROADCAST 2009
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6/3-6/6/09 Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Since 2006, the annual Beyond Broadcast conference has explored the evolution of participatory digital public media. This year's conference, titled "Public Service Media from Local to Global," brings this ongoing conversation to the world stage, examining these issues from a global perspective.
BB09 will be structured around three themes: local, global and connecting the two. We will explore the way new media are used on a local community basis, then look at these practices on a global scale and finally consider ways to build lasting bridges between participants across the spectrum.
For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://bb2009.uscannenberg.org/
OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 5/27-5/29/09 7th Chinese Internet Research Conference (http://www.global.asc.upenn.edu/index.php?page=167) (Live Webcast: http://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5396)
[2] 5/28/09 Cybersecurity: Assuring a Secure, Resilient and Reliable Digital Infrastructure (http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show=event&id=2280)
[3] 6/1-6/4/09 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference in Washington, DC (http://www.cfp2009.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
[4] 6/1-6/8/09 Internet Week NYC (http://www.internetweekny.com/)
[5] 6/3/09 Information Technology to Promote Global Health (http://ti.globalhealth.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do)
[6] 6/18-6/20/09 19th Annual Conference for Law School Computing // CALI (http://w.cali.org/conference/)
[7] 6/19-6/20/09 Open Video Conference at NYU (http://openvideoconference.org/)
[8] 6/22-6/24/09 Open Translation Tools 2009 (http://aspirationtech.org/events/opentranslation/2009)
update [9] 6/26-6/28/09 8th International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (http://cepe2009.ionio.gr/) // Berkman Executive Director Urs Gasser will give a keynote.
DIGITAL MEDIA: Watch and Listen
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Did you miss this week's luncheon talk? Catch up with Berkman videos,
podcasts, pictures, and dig in to our archive at
http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive.
-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES: Christopher Soghoian - Caught in the Cloud: Privacy, Encryption, and Government Back Doors in the Web 2.0 Era (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/05/soghoian)
-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES with on "Gene Koo & Scott Seider on Video Games and Pro-Social Learning" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/05/koo)
-CYBERSCHOLARS: Aaron Shaw on Polanyi's Penguin: Commons-Based Industry in the Neoliberal Knowledge Economy (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2009/05/shaw)
-CYBERSCHOLARS: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on Mundane Tools and Mobilizational Practices in Two U.S. Congressional Campaigns (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2009/05/nielsen)
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