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A National Conference
May 8-9, 1998
Speakers and Moderators
Stephen Ansolabehere is Associate Professor of
Political Science at MIT. He is the author of The
Media Game (1993) and of Going Negative:
How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize
the Electorate (1996), which won the
Goldsmith Book Prize. He has also written on
campaign finance and party politics in the United
States and Britain.
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Benjamin Barber is the Whitman Professor
of Political Science at Rutgers University and
Director of the Walt Whitman Center for the
Culture and Politics of Democracy. Among
his fourteen books are Strong Democracy,
Jihad Versus McWorld and the forthcoming
A Passion for Democracy. His new study
of civil society, A Place for Us: How to Make
Society Civil and Democracy Strong will be
published in 1998.
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Nolan Bowie is Associate
Professor in the School of Communications and
Theatre, Temple University. He has served as a
Visiting Scholar at the Shorenstein Barone Center
on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and as a
Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University.
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Joshua Cohen is a Professor of
Philosophy and the Arthur and Ruth Sloan
Professor of Political Science at MIT. He is the
editor of the Boston Review and the
co-author, with Joel Rogers, of several books
about politics and democratic theory, including On
Democracy.
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Yaron Ezrahi is a
Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew
University, Jerusalem. Since 1993, Prof. Ezrahi
has been a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy
Institute in Jerusalem where he directs the
project "Mass Communications and the
Democratic Process." His books include The
Descent of Icarus, Science and the Transformation
of Contemporary Democracy (1990), and
Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in
Modern Israel (1997).
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Lawrence Grossman is the author of The
Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the
Information Age, and writes a regular column
for the Columbia Journalism Review
called "In the Public Interest." From
1984-1988 he served as President of NBC News. He
is also a past President and past CEO of the
Public Broadcasting System.
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Christopher Harper holds the Roy H. Park
Distinguished Chair at Ithaca College and is the
author of Journalism 2001, What’s
Next in Mass Communications, and That’s
The Way It Will Be: News and Information in a
Digital World due out in June 1998. He has
spent more than twenty years in journalism with
the Associated Press, Newsweek and ABC News.
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Tom Horan is the Executive Director
of the Claremont Graduate University Research
Institute and Director of its Digital Communities
Initiative. He has published widely on emergent
information technologies, including a 1996 report
to the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy entitled
"Stalking the Invisible Revolution: Impact
of Information Technology on Human Settlement
Patterns."
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Ellen Hume, author of the
prize-winning study Tabloids, Talk Radio and
the Future of the News, is the Executive
Director of PBS's Democracy Project. She
supervised the creation of Follow the Money,
PBS's weekly series on the 1997 campaign finance
hearings and reform efforts. She has also served
as Executive Director of the Shorenstein Center
at the Kennedy School of Government.
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Roger Hurwitz is a
Research Scientist at the MIT Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory and a developer of
systems for electronic publication, intelligent
routing and wide area collaboration. His
publications include Communication Flows,
a study of media development in the US and Japan,
co-authored with Ithiel de Sola Pool and Hiroshi
Inose. In 1995, he organized the First
International Workshop on Online Survey
Methodology and Web Demographics.
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Henry Jenkins, Director of Film and
Media Studies at MIT, has published widely on
contemporary media. His books include a study of
movie comedy in the 1930s and Textual
Poachers, an influential account of media
audiences. His latest publication is The
Children's Culture Reader.
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Eric Loeb is co-founder and Chief
Technology Officer of NetCapitol, Inc. a
developer of internet-based products for public
affairs and political organizations. One of the
founders of the Intelligent Information
Infrastructure Project at the MIT Artificial
Intelligence Lab, he designed the 1992
Clinton/Gore Internet campaign, the 1994 Kennedy
Senate Internet campaign, and the 1996 Kerry
Senate Internet campaign.
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Ira Magaziner is Senior
Advisor to the President for Policy Development.
Since August 1995, Mr. Magaziner has chaired a
joint National Economic Council/National Security
Council initiative to increase U.S. exports. He
recently completed a document outlining U.S.
government strategy for promoting global commerce
on the Internet. Before joining the Clinton
administration, he was an influential corporate
strategist and consultant, directing policy
analysis for major corporations.
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Lloyd Morrisett helped found the
Children's Television Workshop, producers of Sesame
Street and other television programs for
children. In January 1998 he retired as President
of the Markle Foundation, a post he had held
since 1969. During his tenure at Markle he
initiated the Foundation's program in
Communications and Information Technology. His
early support for the work of the late Ithiel de
Sola Pool was instrumental in the establishment
of the MIT Communications Forum.
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Charles Nesson is the William F. Weld
Professor of Law and Director of the Berkman
Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law
School. He has served since 1974 as Television
and Seminar Moderator for the Media and Society
program of the Ford Foundation and Columbia
University. His many publications include Borders
in Cyberspace (1997), coauthor Brian Kahin,
and an article about the Communications Decency
Act titled "The Day the Internet Met the
First Amendment," forthcoming in the Harvard
Journal of Law and Technology. He has served
as counsel in major civil liberties cases,
including US v. Berrigan and US v.
Ellsberg (the Pentagon Papers case).
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Mitchel Resnick is
Associate Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory.
He is the author of Turtles, Termites and
Traffic Jams (1994), about new technologies
and human cognition, and the co-founder of the
Computer Clubhouse project, a network of
after-school learning centers for youth.
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Michael Schudson is Professor of
Communication at the University of California,
San Diego, and author of Discovering the News
(1978), Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (1984),
Watergate in American Memory (1992), and
forthcoming in September, The Good Citizen: A
History of American Public Life. He is the
recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur
Foundation Fellowship, and a residential
fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in
the Behavioral Sciences. He is chair-elect of the
Sociology of Culture Section of the American
Sociological Association, a member of the Penn
National Commission on Culture, Society and
Community, and a member of the editorial board of
the American Antiquarian Society’s History
of the Book in America.
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Doug Schuler, co-founder of the
Seattle Community Network, teaches at Evergreen
State College in Washington State. He is the
author of New Community Networks: Wired for
Change; and co-editor of several books on
cyberspace and community, including Reinventing
Technology, Rediscovering Community: Critical
Explorations of Computing as a Social Practice.
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Karen Sollins is a Research
Scientist in the Laboratory for Computer Science
at MIT where she works in the Advanced Network
Architecture Group. She is a founding member of
the Boston chapter of Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility.
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Paul Starr is Professor of Politics
at Princeton University and the editor of The
American Prospect. His books include The
Logic of Health Care Reform and The
Social Transformation of American Medicine,
which won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, C. Wright Mills
and James Hamilton Prizes.
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David Thorburn is Professor of Literature
and Director of the Communications Forum at MIT.
He is the author of Conrad's Romanticism
and many articles on media and culture and was
the general editor of the book series Media
and Popular Culture.
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David Winston is Director of Planning
for the Office of Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of
the House of Representatives. He has been the
polling editor for PoliticsNOW, a political web
site run by ABC News, The Washington Post
and The National Journal. He
has served as director of strategic information
and as chief technology advisor to the Republican
Party under four Republican National Committee
Chairmen.
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