Take a look at the lack of inclusion of women (FreeCultureFail) on the Organizing and Academic Program Committees for this event. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5486 There are 12 people on the former and 28 people on the latter. According to the person from the Free Culture Research Workshop group that I contacted: "Based on my count, there are 4 women in all on both Committees, with <Person X> serving on both the organizing and academic committees. The other 3 women serve in the academic committee..." 4 women out of 40 people. One woman on the Organizing Committee. That's some kind of "free culture". Free Culture Fail, as far as I can tell. Maybe there is a story here. Or not. Mary -- Dr. Mary K. Bryson, Professor and Director, Network of Centers and Institutes in Education (NCIE) & Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry (CCFI), Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia CCFI: Innovation Works Here http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/ -----Original Message-----
Date: Thu Jul 16 12:33:25 PDT 2009 From: "jeremy hunsinger" <jhuns@vt.edu> Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: [Icommons] Free Culture Research Workshop 2009 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
The Free Culture Research Workshop 2009 <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5486> is looking for scholars working on:
* Studies on the use and growth of open/free licensing models * Critical analyses of the role of Creative Commons or similar models in promoting a Free Culture * Building innovative technical, legal, organizational, or business solutions and interfaces between the sharing economy and the commercial economy * Modeling incentives, innovation and community dynamics in open collaborative peer production and in related social networks * Economic models for the sustainability of commons-based production * Successes and failures of open licensing * Analyses of policies, court rulings or industry moves that influence the future of Free Culture * Regional studies of Free Culture with global lessons/ implications * Lessons from implementations of open/free licensing and distribution models for specific communities * Definitions of openness and freedom for different media types, users and communities * Broader sociopolitical, legal and cultural implications of Free Culture initiatives and peer production practices * Free Culture, Memory Institutions and the broader Public Sector * Open Science/ Research/ Education * Cooperation theory and practice, dynamics of cooperation and competition * Methodological approaches for studying the characteristics, history, impact or growth of Free Culture
It is tremendously exciting to see the commons attracting this research interest. The workshop will be held October 23 at Harvard. Submissions are due August 9. <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5486>
Also see the last year¹s post on the First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free Culture <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/ 8436>.
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