Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Event

by Laura DeNardis | October 21, 2009 | announcements, events, workshops and symposia | 2 Comments

Please join us on November 3, 2009 from 6:00-8:30 p.m. for a special session of the Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group.  The event will be held in Room B48 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, immediately across York Street from Yale Law School.

This event will feature a “Digital Democracy Debate” with Matthew Hindman, author of The Myth of Digital Democracy and Micah Sifry, co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum and Tech President. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, formerly a visiting student at Harvard’s Berkman Center, will moderate the debate.

Please RSVP to Ben Peters (bjp2108@columbia.edu) if you plan to attend. Refreshments provided.

This workshop offers a forum for debating the signal claim of Matthew Hindman that digital democracy, as most online commentators know it, is a myth. The forum builds on Hindman’s afternoon talk at Yale Law School titled “The Elephant and the Butterfly: Audience Size and the Political Economy of the Web.” All in attendance are invited to read chapters four, five, and seven from Hindman’s The Myth of Digital Democracy. A second piece “Closing the Frontier: Political Blogs, the 2008 Election, and the Online Public Sphere” will be forwarded to anyone who reserves as spot, as requested, from Ben Peters at bjp2108@columbia.edu.

The Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group is a forum for fellows and affiliates studying issues confronting the information age to discuss their ongoing research. Each session is focused on the peer review and discussion of current projects submitted by a presenter. Meeting alternatively at Harvard, MIT, Yale, the working group aims to expand the shared knowledge of young scholars by bringing together these preeminent centers of thought on issues confronting the information age. Discussion sessions are designed to facilitate advancements in the individual research of presenters and in turn encourage exposure among the participants to the multi-disciplinary features of the issues addressed by their own work.

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