Thursday, April 24, 2008
5-7 p.m.
Bartos Theater

Abstract

The current generation of young citizens is growing up in an age of unprecedented access to information. Will this change their understanding of democracy?  What factors will shape their involvement in the political process?

Speakers

Lance Bennett is Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington where he founded and directs the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement. The Center is dedicated to understanding how communication processes and technologies can enhance citizen engagement with social life, politics, and global affairs.

Ingeborg Endter is the outreach manager for the MIT Center for Future Civic Media and a graduate of the electronic publishing group at MIT’s Media Lab where her research focused on creating collaborative community uses of the Internet. She previously served as a program manager for the Computer Clubhouse Network, a collaboration between the Boston Museum of Science and Media Lab that provides an after-school learning environment where young people from under-served communities use technology for creative self-expression.

Alan Khazei is founder and CEO of Be the Change, a non-partisan citizens' civic organization. He co-founded and previously served as CEO of City Year, a youth service corps that enlists more than 1,200 young adults in 16 communities across America and in Johannesburg, South Africa for a year of full-time community service.

Moderator: Mitchel Resnick directs the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Laboratory where he serves as head of the Media Arts and Sciences academic program. He is a principal investigator for the MIT Center for Future Civic Media.

Co-sponsor: MIT Center for Future Civic Media

Summary

Summary to be posted following the event.

--slide from Alan Khazei's presentation

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