Thursday, October 25, 2001
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Speakers
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Bennett
Haselton has been publishing reports
on blocking-software technology on the Peacefire.org Web site
since 1996. Peacefire's reports, featured on a variety of news
outlets, have been used as evidence in court cases challenging
the constitutionality of blocking software in public libraries.
He works as a contract hacker, finding and fixing security holes
in Internet servers and applications.
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Henry
Jenkins is the Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor
of Humanities and director of the Program in Comparative Media Studies.
His books include From Barbie to Mortal Kombat, The Children's
Culture Reader, and Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures
of Popular Culture. He writes about the intersection of culture
and technology in his column, "The Digital Renaissance,"
in
Technology Review.
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Christine
Ortiz is a founding member of both
the Florida SWAT/Truth and National Truth campaigns about the
dangers of smoking. An MIT sophomore majoring in Chemical Engineering
and Political Science, Ortiz is a consultant to many state and
national social-change campaigns including the American Legacy
Foundation.
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Susannah
Stern teaches in the communication department
at Boston College, where her latest research addresses adolescent Internet
use, especially personal home pages. Stern received her Ph.D. in mass
communication research from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication
at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
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