I'm posting this for Shay David - If interested, please respond to him at sd256@cornell.edu. hi everybody, (and sorry for cross posting) anyone interested in participating in (and/or help organizing) this important panel, please contact me in the next couple of days, and include your coordinates, paper topic and areas of interest. deadline for 4S panel submission is May 1st. please also distribute to anyone whom you think might be interested, thanks, Shay David e: sd256@cornell.edu w: http://www.shaydavid.info ----------- Panel Title: Technology and Regulation in a brave new media world: between norms, laws and markets Abstract: In the past several years the reduction in the costs of communication, changes in the political climate and rapid innovation around media technology allowed a new class of media and information artifacts to develop, challenging longstanding power relations in the media industry. Technologies like wikis, blogs, and home-brewed video and audiocasts, to name a few, together with new models of peer-production usher in new modes of knowledge production and dissemination, calling into question our understandings of concepts like authority, truth, and censorship. As we know, this change is not without resistance; the juggernauts of the media industry are using their full arsenal to fight what they perceive to be a third world-war, often focusing on lobbying efforts in an attempt to regulate through law. While much has been written about this transition, little attention has been given by science studies scholars to the public policy implications of this phenomenon. This panel will seek to explore the way by which what could otherwise be controversial, invisible, secret, or anomalous informational artifacts are being co-opted and regulated through laws, markets, and repeated attempts to influence norms. The organizers seek contributions from a variety of scholars addressing empirical as well as theoretical aspects of this topic. Dr Matt Ratto Networked research and digital information KNAW-Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science Joan Muyskenweg 25 Postbus 95110 1090 HC Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: (31)(20)462-8719 fax: (31(20)665-8013 http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/en/nerdi2/toon