NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 12 November 2008 Computers and Society: Amanda Michel on Technology, Networks, and Journalism

[secretary]

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 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:36:14 -0500
 To: announce@isoc-ny.org
 From: ISOC-NY announcements <announce@isoc-ny.org>
 Subject: [isoc-ny] Amanda Michel - "Technology, Networks, and Journalism" @ 
NYU  Wednesday

 ISOC-NY is a co-sponsor of Evan Korth's Computers & Society
 speaker series at NYU this fall. The next talk is tomorrow
 Wednesday. It will feature Amanda Michel - her topic is
 "Technology, Networks, and Journalism."

 Amanda Michel is Director of HuffPost's OffTheBus. Amanda started
 in politics during the 2003-2004 campaign cycle, working as the
 National Director of Generation Dean and then creating and
 managing the MediaCorps program for the Kerry- Edwards
 campaign. Along with several other Kerry-Edwards coworkers she
 helped co-found the New Organizing Institute in the wake of the
 2004 election. Since then she's taken her online organizing
 skills to media, working at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet
 & Society and on Assignment Zero, a Wired and NewAssignment.net
 collaboration. She is also a Knight Digital Media Fellow.

 Date: Wed November 12 2008
 Time: 3.30pm - 4.45pm
 Location:
 Warren Weaver Hall NYU Rm 109
 251 Mercer Street
 New York, NY 10012

 Members and public welcome. Enter via W. 4th St. Photo ID required.

 http://computersandsociety.net

 Amanda has declined to be videotaped so there will be no webcast
 on this one. If you want to see/hear what she has to say -
 attend!

 Video of previous talks can be found on YouTube 
 http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=evankorth&search=Search


 Joly MacFie 
 212 608 1334
 http://wwwhatsup.com
 http://punkcast.com  
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Distributed poC TINC:

Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org