Intellectual Property Law

Siva at Northwestern May 15

By Siva Vaidhyanathan

Humanities Events Institute, Humanities Center, WCAS, Northwestern University:

Date: May 15, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: 1881 Sheridan Rd, Harris 107
See the Evanston Campus Map

Title: Social Networks and the Good Society with Cass Sunstein, Siva Vaidhyanathan, & Eszter Hargittai
Description: New forms of web-based communications--most notably social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook--have the potential to transform the sorts of communities we join and how we interact within them. For centuries, people in diverse cultures have debated the type of institutional arrangements most conducive to the "good society" as they have understood this ideal. How are these new virtual communities simultaneously reshaping and challenging our sense of collective identity--both as national and as global citizens? Have they spurred new kinds of democratic debates or have they isolated like-minded individuals from those of different views? Do they give voice to those previously silenced or foster new forms of inequality? Join us as our panelists consider what this debate says about our own ideals of the good society. Cass Sunstein School of Law, University of Chicago, author of Infotopia (2005), Republic.com 2.0 (2007), and Nudge (2008) Siva Vaidhyanathan Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs (2001), The Anarchist in the Library (2004), and Rewiring the Nation (2007) Moderator: Eszter Hargittai School of Communication, Northwestern University, director of the Web Use Project

Contact: Elizabeth Foster
847-491-7946
Audience: Public
Group: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities

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