Dear AIR colleagues, The attached event might be of interest. Christian -- http://www.niftyc.org/ Please forward as appropriate. ************************ 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