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A National Conference
May 8-9, 1998
Agenda
Friday session:
E25-111
45 Carleton Street
Saturday session:
Bartos
Theater
MIT Media Lab
20 Ames Street
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Friday, May 8, 1998
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| 1:00-1:45 |
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Bearings
David Thorburn, MIT: Web
of Paradox
Lloyd Morrisett, Past President,
Markle Foundation:
Technologies of
Freedom? |
| 1:45-3:45 |
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Changing Conceptions
of Democracy
Lawrence Grossman, author, The
Electronic Republic
Michael Schudson, University of
California
Moderator: Henry Jenkins, MIT |
| 4:00-6:00 |
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War in the Trenches:
Are Online Tools Opening or
Closing the Democratic Process?
Eric Loeb, Net Capitol, Inc.
David Winston, Office of the Speaker of
the House of Representatives
Ellen Hume, PBS
Moderator: Stephen
Ansolabehere, MIT |
| 7:30-9:30 |
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Democracy
and Cyberspace: First Principles
Ira Magaziner, Senior Advisor to
the President for Policy Development
Responses:
Benjamin Barber, Rutgers University
Joshua Cohen, MIT
Moderator: Mitchel
Resnick, MIT |
Saturday, May 9
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| 9-10:30 am |
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The New Media and
the Old Regime
Paul Starr, Princeton University
Response:
Yaron Ezrahi, Hebrew University,
Jerusalem
Moderator: Karen
Sollins, MIT |
| 11:00-12:30 |
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Media Access and Media
Power
Doug Schuler, Seattle Community Network
Nolan Bowie, Temple University
Moderator: Tom Horan,
Claremont Graduate University |
| 1:30-3:15 |
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The Agenda-Setting
Function of Media
Christopher Harper, Ithaca College
Benjamin Barber
Moderator: Charles
Nesson, Harvard Law School |
| 3:30-5:00 |
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Summary Perspectives
Roger Hurwitz, MIT
Henry Jenkins
Michael Schudson
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