| ICA 2007 Conference [Theme] Events
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| Grassroots discussion panel: Participatory models and alternative content production | |||
| Whether concerned with social movements, civic engagement, aesthetic production or personal expression, alternative content production embraces participation as core value as well as a structural possibility. This theme event examines attempts to develop, use, augment and promote structures for participation in production processes. Discussion will compare content creators' strategies for social inclusion, democratic involvement and technological literacy, by looking not only at technological or political imperatives but institutional ones as well. Key practitioners also address what is meant by participation, who participates and how, and what alternative content producers gain and lose from participatory design. | |||
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Location: Hilton Time: Saturday May 26; 18:30-20:00 Participants:
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| Local policy and grassroots discussion panel: A Dialogue about Mobility: | |||
| Wi-Fi Rollout and the San Francisco Model | ||||
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In an effort to be forward thinking or at least to keep up, municipalities large and small are undertaking wireless initiatives as Wi-Fi and wi-max gains momentum. While wi-fi hotspots have been growing in availability for a number of years, the recent trend has been to deploy citywide or regional networks. Municipalities are looking to wireless internet access to enhance public services, boost economic development and provide internet access to citizens. Muni-wireless systems are being introduced in over 150 municipalities throughout the United States, in cities like San Francisco. Our host city, San Francisco, is being looked at as a model for using Wi-Fi in creative ways in order to meet the needs of global business and education while promoting the city as a hub of technology. Public/private partnerships are being explored such as the Google--EarthLink proposal. The mayor has discussed broadband and Wi-Fi rollout in terms of communication "rights." This panel will bring together representatives of local government, community and academic worlds who will discuss the challenges and forward thinking policies of Wi-Fi today. This panel organized by the Urban Communication Foundation is an attempt to link activities of communication scholars with the current activities of the host city, an endeavor introduced at the 2006 ICA conference in Dresden. | |||
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Location: Hilton Time: Saturday May 26; 18:30-20:00 Participants:
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| Media education: playfulness and critical citizens: an interactive tour @ ZEUM | |||
| This event was cancelled because of the too limited number of registrations. We regret the inconvenience. | |||
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Time: Saturday May 26; 18:30-20:00 Price: 20 USD, reception with appetizers, sweets, and soft drinks included Participants:
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| Grassroots discussion panel: Alternative journalisms | |||
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| What are the many faces of alternative journalism today? This theme event explores the role of alternative journalists in speaking to power and creating social change and contemplates journalists' adaptation and/or resistance to new social, economic, political and technological pressures in the field. The discussion will center on the practice of alternative journalism as it has existed in the past and in the present. Panelists will also treat alternative journalism's successes and failures and the challenges of working in a media- and information-saturated environment. The event will end by reflecting on ways to enhance alternative journalism's critical capacities. | |||
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Location: Hilton Time: Sunday May 27; 18:30-20:00 Participants:
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| Grassroots discussion panel: Civil Society and Regulation | |||
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| As media, communications and information systems become more complex, civil society has become increasingly concerned with their just and ethical control and management. In this event, advocates working for change in regulatory regimes review current debates, illuminating the ways in which media, communications and information policy intersects with citizens, communities and constituencies at the grassroots level. Both practical and hypothetical intersections will be explored. Panelists will also discuss citizens' ability to inform decision-making about government and governance of media, communications and information as well as advocates' ability to monitor and contribute to policy debates. | |||
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Location: Hilton Time: Sunday May 27; 18:30-20:00 Participants:
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| Musée mechanique - games studies | |||
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The Musée Mechanique is one of the world's largest privately owned collections of mechanically operated musical instruments and antique arcade machines. Owner Dan Zelinsky will take you on a journey from turn of the century hand cranked music boxes to modern video arcade games. You can look (and listen), but you can touch as well. Only a quarter a game. To keep things mechanical, a cable cart will take you to the museum at Fisherman's Wharf. And back. Or maybe you'd rather stay and play? | |||
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Location: Musée Mechanique Time: Sunday May 27 Price: 15 USD (playing not included) Participants:
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