[Air-L] OneWebDay (Sept 22)

[Janna Anderson]

The Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University is partnering with the
Greensboro News & Record to invite people to share their personal stories in
print and online about how the World Wide Web transforms their lives and
communities. Your contributions or your students' contributions could become
part of this project, which will also serve as a historic documentation of
how individuals say this amazing communication revolution is changing how we
live, work and play.

It's all part of the recognition of OneWebDay in September. OneWebDay
(http://onewebday.org/?page_id=290) is a celebration during which people
around the world plan events to promote the importance of an open, globally
interoperable Internet and the connectedness and empowerment they achieve
online. The News & Record and Imagining the Internet Center are asking
people to share written accounts and/or photos and also to consider
submitting video clips to YouTube tagged OneWebDay, sending us the URL.
We're asking them to tell us how their use of the Internet has made a
difference to them personally or in the communities or other groups they
belong to. We will compile the responses in a special package in the News &
Record and those who submit predictions will have them added to the
Imagining the Internet site.

An appeal for people's Internet stories ran in the News & Record Op Ed pages
August 31:  
http://www.news-record.com/content/2008/08/29/article/anderson_a_day_to_cele
brate_glories_of_the_internet.

People are being encouraged to submit their Web stories before Sept. 14;
they will be posted and printed in the News & Record on Sept. 21, just
before OneWebDay, celebrated annually on Sept. 22.

If you or your students would like to share their stories, please have them
send their written comments (up to 300 words) to opinion at news-record with a
related photo or two. Or have them make a video of up to two minutes, post
it on YouTube with OneWebDay as the subject and send an e-mail to ³opinion²
to let the News & Record know about it.

Thanks!
Janna Anderson, from Elon University and Imagining the Internet

On 9/5/08 1:18 PM, "Michael Zimmer" <zimmerm at uwm.edu> wrote:

> Dear all -
> 
> Seeing Jeremy Hunsinger's message about "Open Access Day" prompted me
> to wonder what, if anything, people are doing to celebrate OneWebDay
> on September 22.
> 
> For those unfamiliar, OneWebDay (http://onewebday.org) is like Earth
> Day for the Internet: it was created by Prof. Susan Crawford (now at
> Michigan Law School) so there would be a single day where everyone
> across the globe could join together to celebrate the Web, reflect on
> its role in our lives, and take steps to ensure its survival as a
> sphere for public discourse, the open flow of ideas, spread of
> knowledge, fostering of communities, etc, etc.
> 
> OWD celebrations are planned worldwide for Sept 22 (see http://
> www.onewebday.org/base/index.php/Main_Page).
> 
> At our local event in Milwaukee, we're featuring talks on Net
> Neutrality and Internet Policy Issues; Internet Globalism and Ethics;
> Ethics, Gaming, and Virtual Worlds; and Privacy, Social Networks, and
> Online Life. We also plan to have educational kiosks for students to
> learn how to edit and contribute (constructively) to Wikipedia, as
> well as how to tweak the privacy settings on their Facebook profiles.
> (see <http://www.onewebday.org/base/index.php/Milwaukee> for more
> details).
> 
> What are others doing??
> 
> -michael.
> 
> --
> Michael Zimmer, PhD
> Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
> Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
> w: www.michaelzimmer.org
> 
> 
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