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FYI- A bit late to attend, but worth checking the program of.
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> RE: Activism‹Re-drawing the Boundaries of Activism in a New Media
> Environment
> Location: Budapest, Hungary
> Event Date(s): October 14, 2005  -  October 15, 2005
>
> Organized by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
> Central European University, the Open Society Institute, and the
> Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania,
> the conference "RE:activism: Re-drawing the Boundaries of Activism in
> a New Media Environment," will take place October 14­15, 2005, in
> Budapest.
>
> The conference offers eight panels, each of them representing an
> approach from which the transformative potential of new media can be
> meaningfully addressed. Academic participants have been invited to
> present papers and to take part in round-table discussions with
> activists in one of the following panels:
>     €     Political economy of peer production networks
>     €     State intervention and regulatory issues in the Information Age
>     €     Digital culture jamming
>     €     Digitalized memory: new forms of archiving and journalism
>     €     Civic uses of new media technologies
>     €     New media and global civil society
>     €     New media and democratic elections
>     €     New media activism and the urban fabric
>
> Members of activist groups of all kinds (from the smallest DIY
> community to transnational movements) and artists working with new
> media technologies have also been invited to present their projects
> connected to any of the above conference panels and to take part in
> round-table discussions with academics.
>
> For further information, see the conference website
> at http://www.re-activism.net/.
>
> http://www.soros.org/initiatives/information/events/reactivism_20051014

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