[Air-L] Register Today to Get the Early Bird Rates for "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States"

[Yosem Companys]

Hi Stuart,

Do you know what the schedule is for April 16 and 17?  I am trying to
determine at what time I should return to California.

Thanks!  :-)

Yosem

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Please join us at the 1st Annual Journal of Information Technology &
> Politics Conference, "YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the
> United States," taking place April 16 & 17, 2009 at the University of
> Massachusetts Amherst.
>
> This conference brings together social and computer scientists to
> examine the electoral impact of user-created YouTube content and to
> demonstrate new technical and analytic opportunities associated with
> new media technologies and politics.
>
> Register on or before January 31 and receive an Early Bird discount.
> http://www.umass.edu/polsci/youtube/
>
> The conference is pleased to feature two keynote speakers:
>
> Day 1: Richard Rogers, Chair in New Media & Digital Culture,
> University of Amsterdam. He is Director of Govcom.org, the group
> responsible for the Issue Crawler and other info-political tools, and
> the Digital Methods Initiative, reworking method for Internet
> research. Rogers is author of Information Politics on the Web (MIT
> Press, 2004), awarded the 2005 best book of the year by the American
> Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). Current research
> interests include Internet censorship, googlization, the
> Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the Web, as well as the
> post-demographics implied by recommender systems.
>
> Day 2: Noshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of
> Behavioral Sciences in the School of Engineering, School of
> Communication and the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
> University, USA. He is the Director of the Science of Networks in
> Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University. He is
> investigating factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and
> dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in
> communities.  Specifically, his research team is developing and
> testing theories and methods of network science to map, understand and
> enable more effective networks in a wide variety of contexts including
> communities of practice in business, science and engineering
> communities, disaster response teams, public health networks, digital
> media and learning networks, and in virtual worlds, such as Second
> Life.
>
> YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle is co-sponsored by the Departments
> of Political Science, Computer Science and Communication at UMass
> Amherst; the Center for Public Policy and Administration at UMass
> Amherst; Panopto; TubeKit; the National Center for Digital Government;
> the Qualitative Data Analysis Program; the Science, Technology and
> Society Initiative; the Journal of Information Technology and
> Politics; and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UMass
> Amherst and is supported by a grant from the Research Leadership in
> Action Program in the Office of Research and Engagement at UMass
> Amherst.
>
> Visit the conference website for more information:
> http://www.umass.edu/polsci/youtube/
>
> Regards,
> Michelle
>
> Michelle Sagan Goncalves
> Conference Coordinator
> YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the US
> 126 Thompson Hall
> UMass Amherst
> Amherst, MA 01003
> Telephone: + 1 413 577 2354
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