April 9-10, 2015
Knight Law Center
This conference investigates the changes in global political discourses and practices brought about by the digital revolution. The event is part of the Wayne Morse Center’s theme of inquiry on Media and Democracy and is free and open to the public.
The complete schedule is forthcoming; check back here for a link to the conference website soon.
Keynote addressSouth Korea as the World’s Most Wired Nation:
Its Digital Democracy as a Real-Life Case Study?
110 Knight Law Center
Sang Jo Jong is a law professor and the director of the Center for Law & Technology at Seoul National University and a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School. He previously taught intellectual property law at Georgetown Law and Duke Law School.
Conference
Friday, April 10, 9 a.m.-3:45 p.m.
110 Knight Law Center
Panelists:
Mathew Adeiza (University of Washington), project manager for the Digital Activism Research Project at the University of Washington.
Tarek El-Ariss (University of Texas at Austin), author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political.
Camille Crittenden (UC Berkeley), director of the Data and Democracy Initiative and the Social Apps Lab, and deputy director of the Center for Information Research Technology in the Interest of Society.
Sean Jacobs (The New School), co-editor of Shifting Selves: Post-apartheid essays on Mass Media, Culture and Identity.
Purnima Mankekar (UCLA), author of Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India.
Leah Lievrouw (UCLA), author of the forthcoming Media and Meaning: Communication Technology in Society.
Aswin Punathambekar (University of Michigan), author of From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry and co-editor of Global Bollywood and Television at Large in South Asia.
Margaret Rhee (UCLA), author of How We Became Human: Race, the Robots, and the Asian American Body (in preparation), co-founder of “From the Center.”
Joe Straubhaar (University of Texas at Austin), author of The Persistence of Inequity in the Technopolis: Race, Class and the Digital Divide in Austin, Texas.
Organizers:
Bish Sen, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication
Laura Strait, Media Studies PhD.
School of Journalism and Communication
Patrick Jones, Media Studies PhD.
School of Journalism and Communication
Cosponsors:
Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, School of Journalism and Communication, Office of Academic Affairs, Office of International Affairs Global Studies Institute, New Media and Culture Certificate Program, Oregon Humanities Center, Agora Journalism Center, International Studies Department, Department of Comparative Literature, The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, Department of History.