Colloquium Schedule 2012-13

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Colloquium on The Internet and Activism

Sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities & Social Sciences Sage 3101, Wednesdays at 1:00 p.m.
Sept. 5 Who is Isaac HACKsimov? Spanish hacktivists on digital tools for political mobilization Florencio Cabello, Department of Communications, University of Malaga and Daniel Vazquez, Patio de Maravillas, Madrid Sept. 19 The Rise of the Mobile Internet: Tracing the history of the mobile internet through US and EU Sociotechnical Imaginaries Tolu Odumosu, post-doctoral Research fellow the Belfer Center and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University "The Mobile Internet is finally here, and it appears at the moment, it will operate in a different fashion than the wired internet. What sociotechnical imaginaries inform the current structure of the mobile internet in the United States and Europe? This talk offers a comparative analysis of modern US and European mobile wireless policy. It traces the emergence of digital wireless infrastructure from the early circuit switched heritage to the current project of fully packet switched networks." Oct. 3 "Widening the aperture of experience in design Todd Cherkasky, Vice President, Research & Insights, SapientNitro Nov. 5 Silicon democracy Evgney Morozov, author of The Net Delusion, visiting scholar, Stanford University (This special lecture will be held Monday, Nov. 5 at 4:00 p.m. in the Biotech Lecture Hall) Nov. 28 "From Gotland to Youngstown: Understanding the indissoluble link between landscape and justice" Don Mitchell, Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University Speakers for the spring semester will include Gabriella Coleman, Alexander Galloway and Virginia Eubanks among others.

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