events entries
April 5, 2009
upcoming conferences/talks
Now that I'm working at Microsoft Research, I'm doing a bit more public/academic speaking, but I've done a terrible job of announcing where and when. So let me take a moment to list some of the upcoming talks in the next four months in case you're attending these conferences (or should be):
- April 7, Boston - CHI (commentator on paper about publishing at CHI)
- April 18, Penn State - Teaching and Learning with Technologies Symposium (proper talk)
- May 3, Philadelphia - American Association of Museums Annual Meeting (proper talk)
- May 7, Atlanta - Computing at the Margins Symposium (panel)
- May 23, Chicago - ICA (International Communications Association) (two paper talks)
- June 29, New York - Personal Democracy Forum
- July 2, Urbino Italy - Modernity 2.0: Emerging Social Media Technologies and their Impacts (proper talk)
- July 22, Boston - SIGIR (proper talk)
- July 25, Chicago - Blogher (panel about online safety)
Hopefully I'll get to see some of you at these events - they're bound to be quite fun! And utterly diverse. Needless to say, I won't be giving the same talk at each event but hopefully they'll all be quite entertaining!
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March 10, 2009
it's time for SXSW!!
After taking a break to finish my dissertation, I'm heading back to SXSW and I. Cannot. Wait. SXSW is one of my favorite-ist conferences evah. It's filled with fun folks who are truly engaged with the web, social media, and other forms of culture. There's such a large contingent of cool and interesting people that I'm always overwhelmed, overstimulated, and otherwise bouncy as could be. The parties don't hurt either. Tehe.
Anyhow, I do very little scheduling at SXSW because I personally do better when I'm unscheduled and just go with the flow. That said, I find that it's useful to show up at one's own talks and parties. And it's even more fun to attend said scheduled activities when your friends know about it and want to come and play along. Sooo, since all of my BIG events are on Saturday, I thought I'd take a moment to share these bits in the hopes that those of you attending might come along!
Panel #1: Is Privacy Dead or Just Very Confused?
- Who: me (moderator), Judith Donath, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Alice Marwick
- When: Saturday March 14, 10-11AM in Room A
- Abstract: While many assert that "privacy is dead," the complex ways in which people try to control access and visibility suggest that it's just very confused. Rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water, let's discuss people's understanding and experiences of privacy and find ways to 2.0-ify it.
Panel #2: Everything I Needed to Know About the Web I Learned from Feminism
- Who: Heather Gold, me, Betty Flowers
- When: Saturday March 14, 3.30-4.30PM in Room 9
- Abstract: Last year's panel on Gossip packed up via twitter word of mouth and was described by Get Satisfaction's Lane Becker as "the best panel I've ever seen at SXSW." This year we might top it and revive/re-frame feminism at the same time. Feminism teaches "the personal is political" and the web shows that the personal is now public. Christmas newsletters and recipes are the social media of their time, and women are the key social nodes of our culture. In her comic and though-provoking style, Heather Gold brings together amazingly smart women and the people f/k/audience to discuss what makes social networks strong and predict where they're heading next online.
Party: StandardAnswer Launch Party
- StandardAnswer is an online community built around questions and answers (think personality quizzes). This is a new startup; I'm on the advisory board and this is the launch party.
- When: Saturday March 14, 8PM-2AM
- Where: Red Eyed Fly, 715 Red River
- Deets: all welcome, music by Black Joe Lewis, American Princes, and White Denim; RSVP is required
Sooo... if you want to see me be all serious, come to the panels. If you want to see me all goofy and bouncy, come to the party! Saturday is bound to be loads of fun so I hope you'll join me!!!
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September 11, 2008
public meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, Sept 23-24 at Harvard
Many of you know that I've been co-directing the Internet Safety Technical Task Force as part of my fellowship at Berkman and I wanted to give you a few updates and invite you to the public meeting.
My role on the TF has primarily been to lead the Research Advisory Board and help the ISTTF ground their analysis and recommendations in a solid understanding of research. At earlier meetings, researchers have come and presented their work and we've made videos, slides, and handouts from these meetings available here. Also, the fabulous Andrew Schrock and I are currently working on a literature review of all research in this space which we will share here shortly for public vetting.
While I've been working on the research side of things, the Technical Advisory Board has been reviewing various proposed technical solutions to safety concerns regarding youth. On September 23-24 at Harvard, there will be public presentations of some of these technologies for public feedback, questions, and critique. We're still sorting out the schedule, but some valuable information on the public meeting is here.
I'd like to invite (AND ENCOURAGE) all of you who are vested in these topics to join us if at all possible. This will be a great opportunity to see how different companies are proposing to address the internet safety concerns that have been raised. The topics will include age verification, filtering, text analysis, and authentication. This is a great opportunity to provide feedback (both technical and social) to this process. Many of you have strong opinions on what kind of technical solutions are and are not possible and it would be super duper helpful if you turned up to state those thoughts on record.
If you can't, I totally understand and we will ask for broad feedback afterwards. But please do spread the word to those who you think are interested in or concerned about these issues. I would really like to see some thoughtful people in the audience asking tough questions.
UPDATE: Each of the tech companies who are presenting had to document detailing what their product does to address safety issues. All of these are available for public viewing on the agenda. If you've got comments based on reading these and can't attend, feel free to leave them in the comments of this blog post.
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September 2, 2008
Community Forum on "Meeting the Public's Information Needs for Silicon Valley"
As many of you know, I'm on the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities. The goal of this commission is to assess the information needs for local communities (in relation to democracy) and determine how to best achieve them. This involves the intersection of old and new media, grassroots action and government intervention, technology, education, and policy. For more details, check out some background info.
We are hosting a series of public forums. The first will take place in Silicon Valley on September 8. Details are here. I know many of you live in or near the SV so I thought you should know about said meeting. Anyone is welcome, although you need to RSVP by September 5. For those unable to attend, it will be webcast live and recordings will be available.
I'm sure that it'll be interesting, especially for those of you who are fascinated by journalism, information dissemination, creating a healthy political public, etc. Personally, I've been loving the private discussions we've been having and I look forward to this next meeting. So I hope to see some of you next week!
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Tags: information public democracy media politics
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April 27, 2008
MacArthur Forum talk on "Teen Socialization Practices in Networked Publics"
Last Wednesday, I gave a talk in Palo Alto as part of the MacArthur Forum "From MySpace to Hip Hop" alongside the rest of the Digital Youth Research Team. I'm still waiting on the videos and as soon as I have them, I will post them. In the meantime, I thought that I'd share my crib from the talk. For those of you who know my work, much of this will be familiar. Still, it's a pretty good overview of my project. Enjoy!
UPDATE: The videos are now up on YouTube: MySpace to Hip Hop, A MacArthur Forum, 04.23.08
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April 3, 2008
Berkman@10
Due to my (::gasp::) graduation, I will not be able to attend Berkman@10, but YOU SHOULD. Berkman is the fabulous Center for Internet and Society at Harvard where I'm a fellow. We're celebrating our 10th anniversary (wow, everyone's turning 10) with a 2-day conference (May 15, 16) called THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET and a bunch of lead-up events. Speakers at the conference include Jonathan Zittrain, Jimmy Wales, John Palfrey, Esther Dyson, Yochai Benkler, and lots more. There will be breakouts and plenty of opportunity to meet and socialize. The agenda is here. You gotsta register.
I am uber jealous of those of you who get to attend. If it weren't for graduation and family-ness, I would definitely be there. But family trumps.
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