Public Address by Prof. Lawrence Lessig from Center for Media Law and Policy on Vimeo.
If you missed the March 4th lecture by Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig at the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy, you can now watch the entire riveting presentation above. Lessig urged attendees to help him address what he called the single most important issue facing this country: Money in politics.
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Friend of ibiblio Cory Doctorow will discuss is latest young adult novel, Homeland, at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill on February 16th at 2pm.
Homeland, like its precursor Little Brother, follows young activist Marcus Yallow as he uses technology to lead a movement against a tyrannical security state. Doctorow writes often about privacy, copyright, and activism. His novels encourage young people to get involved in making the world a better place.
More info about the event from flyleafbooks.com.
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Dan Gillmor visits the UNC school of Journalism and Mass Communication to talk about the deomcratization of media. People today have access to software and new media tools that previously were only available to large media organizations. He’s excited to see consumers as creators and collaborators in the new media environment and talks about what that means for the future of journalism.
Download the full talk at terasaur.org
Bio:
Dan Gillmor is director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication. The project aims to help students appreciate the startup culture of risk-taking, and to foster new media products and services.
Dan is also director of the Center for Citizen Media, a project to enhance and expand grassroots media and its reach. The center is an affiliate of ASI and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He is author of “We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People” (O’Reilly Media, 2004), a book that explains the rise of citizens’ media and why it matters.
From 1994 until early 2005 Dan was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s daily newspaper, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com. He joined the Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press. Before that, he was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont. During 2005 he worked on media projects at Grassroots Media Inc.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Vermont, Gillmor received a Herbert Davenport fellowship in 1982 for economics and business reporting at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. During the 1986-87 academic year he was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied history, political theory and economics. He has won or shared in several regional and national journalism awards. Before becoming a journalist he played music professionally for seven years.
For for info, visit the Center for Citizen Media
