[Air-l] Command Lines Conference -- April 29-30, Milwaukee, WI

[jeremy hunsinger]

>> The Center for International Education at the University of
>> Wisconsin-Milwaukee is pleased to announce
>>
>> Command Lines: The Emergence of Governance in Global Cyberspace
>>
>> a colloquium at the Hefter Conference Center, University of
>> Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 29-30, 2005, organized by Sandra Braman
>> (communication) and Thomas Malaby (anthropology). The colloquium is
>> free and
>> open to the public.
>>
>> The transfer of many realms of social life to the global domain of
>> cyberspace presents numerous challenges to formal governance through
>> law and
>> law-making – while increasing the relative importance of  other
>> approaches
>> to "the conduct of conduct."  While governments struggle to develop 
>> and
>> apply laws to cyberspace, the producers of the internet (its users and
>> programmers) create their own parameters, norms, practices, and rules
>> that
>> control life online.  Experience within cyberspace, whether building a
>> virtual world, making or participating in games, or learning how to
>> communicate congenially and productively in a listserv, is becoming
>> the most
>> important training in political life for many.  Governance systems
>> being
>> developed within cyberspace in turn are providing models for, or
>> interact
>> with, the laws of governments.  This colloquium will examine the
>> diverse
>> ways in which governance is developing within cyberspace and the
>> effects of
>> such approaches  to governance in the off-line world.  Sessions will
>> cover
>> the entire range of types of governance mechanisms, from the formal
>> laws of
>> government through the formal and informal governance mechanisms of
>> both
>> state and non-state actors to the cultural practices of
>> governmentality that
>> sustain and enable both governance and government.
>>
>>
>> Participants and Contributions:
>>
>> Richard Bartle
>> "Why Governments aren't Gods and Gods aren't Governments"
>>
>> Ian Bogost
>> "Playing Politics: Videogames for Politics, ACtivism, and Advocacy"
>>
>> Sandra Braman
>> "From Governance to Government to Governmentality: The Regulatory
>> Roles of
>> Cyberspace in the Post-Law Era"
>>
>> Edward Castronova
>> "The Social Question: Games for People Left Behind"
>>
>> Leopoldina Fortunati
>> "User Design and the Democratization of the Mobile Phone"
>>
>> Alexander Galloway
>> "How Machines Govern"
>>
>> John Horrigan
>> "Pew Survey Research Findings Related to Internet Governance"
>>
>> Rob Kitchin
>> "Code, Everyday Life, and Mundane Governance"
>>
>> Hans Klein
>> "System Architecture, Geography, and Global Internet Governance"
>>
>> Marwan Kraidy
>> "Inter-Media Dynamics and Reality Television in the Arab Region"
>>
>> Greg Lastowka
>> "The Jurisdiction of Play"
>>
>> David Levy
>> "More, Faster, Better?"
>>
>> Thomas Malaby
>> "Coding Control: Ethics and Contingency in the Production of Online
>> Worlds"
>>
>> Helen Nissenbaum
>> "Values at Play: Method and Application"
>>
>> Christiane Paul
>> "Digital Art/Public Art: The Networked Commons"
>>
>> Jonathan Sterne
>> "Command Tones: Acoustic Space and the Ordering of Motion"
>>
>> T.L. Taylor
>> "Beyond Management: Participatory Governance in Emergent Player
>> Culture"
>>
>> Edward Valauskas
>> Facilitator: Dangling Thoughts Discussion
>>
>> Deborah Wheeler
>> "Digital Politics, Responsive Governance, and Cyber Freedoms Meet
>> Authoritarianism in the Arab World: Results still Emerging"
>>
>> Michele White
>> "Guest Work: The Use of the 'Other' in Producing Rules and Identity
>> Norms in
>> Internet Settings"
>>
>> Guobin Yang
>> "Networks of Power, Links of Resistance: How Online-Offline 
>> Connections
>> Challenge Internet Control in China"
>>
>> Website: www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/CommandLines
>> For more information, contact: Sandra Braman (braman at uwm.edu) or 
>> Thomas
>> Malaby (malaby at uwm.edu)
>>
>>
>> ---jeremy hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
www.cddc.vt.edu
jeremy.tmttlt.com
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