[Air-L] This week TV debates about Facebook and Andrew Keen

[Greg Elmer]

Hi folks, this Wednesday and Thursday TV Ontario will air two shows of interest to Internet researchers. Wednesday 8pm (EST) there will be a discussion about Facebook, Thursday same time there will be an interview with the neo-elitist Brit (hey, allow me some editorializing please) Andrew Keen... get ready to hear about how the internet has killed the civil world. Those outside of Ontario can see it online: http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=41


-Greg

Greg Elmer, PhD
Bell Globemedia Research Chair, Ryerson University
Director, Infoscape Research Lab, www.infoscapelab.ca
Columnist, The Hill Times, www.hilltimes.com

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tamara A. Small" <tsmall at mta.ca>
Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 7:37 am
Subject: [Air-L] Conference: Parliament, ICTs and Citizen Engagement (Ottawa, ON)
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> *Canadian Study of Parliament Group 2007 Conference:
> Parliament, ICTs and Citizen Engagement
> 
> Friday, December 7, 2007
> Ottawa, ON  (Parliament Hill - Room 200, West Block)*
> 
> The Canadian Study of Parliament Group annual conference will examine 
> 
> the impact of information and communications technologies (ICTs) on 
> parliaments and their relationship to citizens. This conference will 
> look at how legislators and their constituents use ICTs to communicate 
> 
> with each other, through e-mail, websites, blogs and other methods.  
> It 
> will also look more broadly at how legislatures are using technology 
> in 
> new and innovative ways for committee consultations, enhanced website 
> 
> features, and other attempts to utilize technology to connect and 
> engage 
> citizens in new ways.
> 
> Sessions will include:
> .    Current Uses of ICTs by Legislators
> .    Innovations and Challenges of ICTs in Legislative Politics
> .    Democratic Engagement
> 
> Panelists include Members of Parliament, federal and provincial public 
> 
> servants and academics from across Canada. Darin Barney, Canada 
> Research 
> Chair in Technology and Citizenship, McGill University, will give the 
> 
> keynote address. 
> 
> For more information, contact the Canadian Study of Parliament Group  
> 
> (Tel: 613.995.2937 or e-mail: info at studyparliament.ca)
> 
> -- 
> Tamara A. Small, PhD 
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Political Science
> Mount Allison University 
> 144 Main Street, Sackville, NB E4L 1A7
> Telephone: 506-364-2165
> Fax: 506-364-2635
> tsmall at mta.ca 
> www.mta.ca/faculty/socsci/polisci/index.html
> 
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