Hello, Just a friendly final reminder that the Theorizing the Web conference is happening this Saturday, April 14th in College Park, MD (inside the DC beltway). http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/ PJ Rey and myself, two graduate students, created the conference last year to provide space for more critical and theoretical approaches when researching the Web. The response has been overwhelming. We’ve built on the success of last year’s conference to create a program we are very excited about. 10 panels, a gallery filled with art installations, a film screening, and an invited discussion on social media after revolution. We’ll close the conference with a conversation between Andy Carvin of NPR News and Zeynep Tufekci (UNC) on social media, protest and journalism. Andy Carvin (@acarvin) is quite important for his innovative use of Twitter within NPR News. Curating thousands of tweets often from areas where Western journalists are not allowed, Carvin hints at a new mode of journalism positioned somewhere between the noisy torrent of social media content on the ground and the traditional news-gatekeepers we’ve grown accustomed to. Tufekci (@techsoc), who has emerged as one of the strongest academic voices on social movements and social media, will help us make sense of this important new development. The research panels take on a range of topics, including technology and protest; self-concept, self-documentation and identity; logging off and disconnection; art, code and design; augmented reality; mobile phones; knowledge and power. A variety of perspectives often neglected at technology conferences are woven throughout the program, including critical, feminist, queer, art-centered and inter/non-disciplinary perspectives on new technologies. Full schedule: http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/2012/simple_program.html The central goal is simply to create the event we’d want to attend; that is, it should be smart and fun. The ideas are important and we want them to be engaging to larger publics. We encourage presenting ideas so that they are publicly accessible and using the #TtW12 backchannel. And we will live-stream and archive audio and video of the whole event on our website. Registration is pay-what-you-want. We are just graduate students and run this on a very tight budget but want to provide things like food and print programs at the event. http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/2012/registration.html Last, please share this however you’d like. Forward this email, post about the conference on Twitter (#TtW12), spread the flier [pdf], anything helps! http://www.cyborgology.org/theorizingtheweb/2012/Documents/ttw12_promo_flyer... Thanks, Nathan Jurgenson, Co-Chair & the #TtW12 Committee @TtW_conf