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NYC LOCAL: November and December 2012 Evan Korth's Computers and Society Series Talks by Doug Rushkoff, Brad Burnham, Aram Sinnreich |
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27 Nov 2012 03:56:26 -0500 |
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what="official announcement of meetings of
Evan Korth's Computers and Society Series, re-sent by
The Internet Society, New York Chapter"
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:47:17 -0500
To: announce@isoc-ny.org
From: ISOC-NY announcements <announce@lists.isoc-ny.org>
Subject: [isoc-ny] Computers and Society - Great upcoming free talks at NYU
Reply-To: president@isoc-ny.org
ISOC-NY is again happy to sponsor Evan Korth's Computers and
Society Series at the Courant Institute at NYU. These talks are
part of an undergraduate course, however ISOC-NY members and the
public are free to attend - please register at the meetup links
provided.
All talks from 3:30-4:45 in room 109 of 251 Mercer Street NYC on the
following dates:
27-Nov-12: Doug Rushkoff - Computers for Humans
29-Nov-12: Brad Burnham - A Narrative on the Threat to Internet Freedom
4-Dec-12: Aram Sinnreich - The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's
War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties
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More info:
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2012.
Time: 3:30-4:45pm
Location: 251 Mercer, Room 109.
http://www.meetup.com/isoc-ny/events/92920742/
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF in Computers for Humans
BLURB: Users do not know how to program their computers, nor do
they care. They spend much more time and energy trying to figure
out how to use them to program one another, instead. And this is
a potentially grave mistake. Just as the invention of text
utterly transformed human society, disconnecting us from much of
what we held sacred, our migration to the digital realm will also
require a new template for maintaining our humanity. In this
talk, Dr. Douglas Rushkoff - author of Program or Be Programmed,
Life Inc, and the upcoming Present Shock, shares the biases of
digital media, and what that means for how we should use and make
them.
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Date: Thursday, November 29, 2012.
Time: 3:30-4:45pm
Location: 251 Mercer, Room 109.
http://www.meetup.com/isoc-ny/events/92921652/
BRAD BURNHAM in A Narrative on the Threat to Internet Freedom
BLURB: The Internet is fundamentally transforming the entire
global economy by making it possible for anyone, anywhere to
create services quickly and inexpensively and reach a global
market immediately. The Internet has opened up markets and
unleashed innovation at a scale never seen before. But now that
freedom to innovate is being threatened.
A year ago, internet users fought back spectacularly to fend off
PIPA and SOPA -- two pieces of overreaching copyright legislation
and sent a clear message to policy makers that a frontal assault
on Internet freedoms would not work. But no user can track all of
the regulatory efforts to limit Internet freedom being put
forward in international treaties, state capitals or municipal
ordinances. Brad will provide a model for evaluating the many
efforts to "civilize" the Internet from the perspective of who is
really helped and who is harmed by each new regulation.
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Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2012.
Time: 3:30-4:45pm
Location: 251 Mercer, Room 109.
http://www.meetup.com/isoc-ny/events/92922202/
ARAM SINNREICH in The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on
Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties
BLURB: The Piracy Crusade examines the music industry's
overreaction to the threat of digital piracty and the result
damage done to our economy, culture and society. By exploring the
unheralded benefits of digital sharing and the perfect storm of
economic factors that burst the industry's bubble, Rutger's
University Media Studies Professor Aram Sinnreich challenges the
commonly accepted myth that piracy is killing the music industry.
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Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast
VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org
Internet Society - NYC Metropolitan Area Chapter
http://isoc-ny.org
'The Internet is for Everyone."
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Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
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