[Air-l] Critical Engagements with Mark Poster

[Lee Salter]

The Information Society, Post-Modern Virtualities and Cyberdemocracy:
Critical Engagements with Mark Poster 

A seminar to be held at Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Saturday
July 3rd ? Sunday July 4th, under the aegis of the Social and Cultural
Movements Research Group. 

The purpose of this seminar is to capitalise on the presence of Mark
Poster in the UK, on a visit to give the closing plenary address at the
2nd International Conference of the Social and Cultural Movements Group,
on the theme of ?Imaging Social Movements?.  

The idea behind the seminar is to explore Poster?s recent thinking and
publications, focused on his analysis of The Mode of Information,
(What?s the Matter with) the Internet, Post-Modern Virtualities and
Cyberdemocracy. The seminar will involve a maximum of six or seven
papers, with a reply by Poster concluding the seminar. The seminar will
have limited numbers in order to keep it manageable for discussion and
debate. The papers and Poster?s reply will be published as a special
edition of a journal.  

Delegates at the 2nd International Conference of the Social and Cultural
Movements Group will be charged a nominal fee to cover subsistence
costs. Those seeking to attend the seminar only should contact Paul
Reynolds - reynoldp at edgehill.ac.uk 

Lee Salter
Lecturer in Media and Communications
Edge Hill College,
St Helen's Road 
Ormskirk,
Lancashire
L39 4QP
Email: salterl at edgehill.ac.uk
Tel: 01695 584374