FYI, Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING A WEBCAST LIVE FROM OXFORD INTERNET INSTITUTE Stephen Coleman, Visiting Professor in e-Democracy at the Oxford Internet Institute, will discuss his article 'Connecting Parliament to the Public via the Internet: Two Case Studies of Online Consultations' with response from Dr Damian Tambini, Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University. ABOUT THIS EVENT Stephen Coleman will take part in a discussion with the Information, Communication & Society Journal Editor, Brian Loader and invited audience, that will be broadcast on the internet via - www.infosoc.co.uk The presentation will start at 17:00 GMT. Following the presentation a critical response to Stephen's paper will be given by Dr Damian Tambini. Viewers having questions for Stephen may forward them to webcast@oii.ox.ac.uk (please also include your name and contact information) and Stephen will answer as many of them as possible during the webcast Stephen Coleman's article is due to be published in Information, Communication & Society, a Taylor & Francis journal, and the article will be available to download prior to the webcast at www.infosoc.co.uk TIMES AND DATES Monday 29th March 2004 1700 - 1800 [GMT] 1800 - 1900 [Central European Time] 1100 - 1200 [US Eastern Standard Time] 0800 - 0900 [US Western Standard Time] 2130 - 2230 [Indian Standard Time] 0400 - 0500 [New Zealand Time - 30 March] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------