From Dorothy Kidd:
Digital Democracy Conference
University of San Francisco
May 1-3, 2003
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May 1st, 2003
Theater Group Critiques Cyberculture
What:
The theater group, Los Cybrids: La Raza Techno-Crítica, will perform at the
University of San Francisco. They use performance, burla and high-tech art
to challenge their audience to think about the social, cultural, and
environmental consequences of information technologies.
Who:
Los Cybrids: La Raza Techno-Critica's are John Jota Leaños, digital artist
from a Mexican-Italian American family in Los Angeles, René García Mexican
born in California performance and digital artist, and Mónica Prabha Pilar,
New York/Colombian multi-disciplinary artist. Together produce community art
that explores themes of historical memory and amnesia, cultural identity and
high technology.
When: Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 7:30 PM.
Where:
University of San
Francisco's Lone Mountain Campus (2800 Turk Boulevard), Room 148.
Friday, May 2, 7:30 pm
Lecture: "The World Wide Web and Global Justice"
Faculty Lounge, UC Centre
Myoung-joon Kim, Coordinator, MediaACT, South Korea
Marlyn Tadros, Executive Director of Virtual Activism
Chris Bailey, Policy Coordinator of Internet Rights
Bulgaria
This dynamic panel of social justice advocates will discuss the hurdles
faced in South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and the
steps that social justice and human rights activists are taking to use the
Net.
Digital Democracy Conference
Citizens' Communications On and Off the Net
What: Conference: Digital Democracy.
This event will address how citizen groups are creating community and
building democratic communications on and off the Net. Workshops will
present action proposals for change and include:
** Chilling Effects: Censorship and the Net
** Creating Community on the Net
** ww
w. Social Justice.net
**World Summit on the Information Society
** Whose Media? Media Reform in the U.
S.
** Broadband, Wireless and Beyond in the Bay Area
Who: Speakers include representatives from the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, USF Law School, Silicon Valley Debug, the San Francisco
Independent Media Center, Labortech, Virtual Activism, Internet Rights
Bulgaria, Communications Rights in the Information Society (CRIS), MediaAct
Korea, Virtual Identity, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility,
the Democratic Media Centre of the National Lawyers Guild, Media Alliance
and Bright Path Video.
When: Saturday, May 3, 2003 from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM.
Where: University Center Building, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton
Street, San Francisco.
Cost: Free and Open to the public.
Sponsors: The University of San Francisco with the support of Media
Alliance.
Info: For pre-registration, please contact the Davies Forum at (415)
422-6147 or Dorothy Kidd
, [log in to unmask], or (415) 422-50
61.
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Dept. of Media Studies,
University of San Francisco.
2130 F
ulton St.
San Francisco, California 94117-1080.
415-422-5061
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OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios
a global network of activists, academics, and practitioners
working toward stronger alternative, community and citizens' media.
una red global de activistas y académic@s apoyando los medios
alternativos, ciudadanos y comunitarios
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Contact: Clemencia Rodriguez
University of Oklahoma
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