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TECH ACTIVE
A panel discussion in London on 28 June 2004.


Activists, scholars, and programmers have sometimes seen the Internet as a lever they can use to change the world, or they have seen the world as a lever they can use to change their Internet -- for the cause of privacy, liberty, democracy, or equity, among others. Where has this online activism about social justice faltered and how has it triumphed?  If you own a computer and a conscience, please join influential activist/scholars to consider the meaning and practice of online activism.  What has changed after all this effort, and what might change if we get it right?


Details:

Monday, 28 June 2004
A panel discussion from 15:00 to about 17:00, with drinks to follow, at the 
Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (tube: Marble Arch, use exit #11 from the Hyde Park pedestrian subway) Stanhope House, Stanhope Place (at Hyde Park), London W2 2HH 
Free and open to the public; no advance booking is required.


Featuring:

*** Nerd Determinism, Nerd Fatalism, and the Copyfight ***
CORY DOCTOROW is the European Affairs Coordinator of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a contributing editor at Wired magazine, and a Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering at Yale University.

*** Civil Society Bites, and other Privacy Failures ***
GUS HOSEIN is a Fellow in Information Systems at the London School of Economics, a Senior Fellow at Privacy International, and an advisor to non-governmental organizations in Europe and the US.

*** Online Activism in Raced and Queer Media Spaces ***
LISA NAKAMURA is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Visual Culture Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the author of Cybertypes and co-editor of Race In Cyberspace.

*** If You're Going to Play the Game, You Need to Play it Well ***
BILL THOMPSON is a writer and journalist for BBC Radio and BBC News Online, an external lecturer at City University, a research associate with the iSociety project, and an editorial advisor to OpenDemocracy.net.


This event is hosted by the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research, and kindly co-sponsored by the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and The Internet Society of England.  For more information: http://www.stanhopecentre.org/   info@stanhopecentre.org    Tel. +44 (0) 207 479 5900