This looks super awesome; will it be livestreamed/filmed? Alex
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jennifer Baek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I wanted to share with/invite all of you to an awesome event happening at > New York Law School, put on by Personal Democracy Media and the Institute > of Information Law and Policy. This is a great opportunity to hear > luminaries speak about the rise of peer-to-peer collaborative culture as an > impetus for achieving real social progress! But rather than me telling you > what it's going to be about, I'm including a blurb about the event in this > e-mail (see below). > > *REGISTER > HERE<http://personaldemocracy.com/event/special-book-event-steven-johnson-rise-peer-progressive> > .* > > *Students go for FREE. Enter Discount Code: NYLAW12* > > *Location: New York Law School, 185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013* > > *Date: Monday, 9/24/12* > > *Time: 7:30PM* > > I hope to see fellow SFC-ers there, and would love it if we could > talk/hang afterwards. > > Cheers, > > Jennifer > -- > Book Event: Steven Johnson on the Rise of the "Peer Progressive"Monday, > September 24 - 7:30pm - New York Law School > > Is there a new political philosophy emerging from things like open source > software development; massive community sharing hubs like Wikipedia, > Kickstarter, and Reddit; peer-to-peer social networking; experiments in > "Liquid Democracy," and the rapid spread of resource sharing tools like > ZipCar, AirBnb and Car2go? Is it time to start talking about replacing the > "welfare state" with the "partner state"? > > *On Monday September 24 at 7:30pm at the New York Law School*, we're > looking forward to exploring all those questions and more with noted author > Steven Johnson, whose new book *Future, > Perfect*<http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2012/07/introducing-future-perfect.html>is > must-reading for people who believe in the power of open, collaborative > peer-to-peer networking to achieve real social progress. > > Johnson argues for a new breed of political beast: the "peer > progressive." You may be one if you're wary of centralized control, whether > that's in the hands of Big Government or Big Corporations or Big Labor, but > you're not a free-market libertarian either because you believe that > markets frequently fail to provide essential social goods. Peer > progressives, Johnson argues, think the way the Internet itself > works--nobody owns it, everyone can connect to it, anyone can improve on > it--might offer a model for solving other problems. And they're struck by > how voluntary associations that are organized non-hierarchically for > non-financial goals like love, or social solidarity, or a shared passion > (like Wikipedia) can scale to the size of millions of participants. > > Additional speakers contributing to the conversation include: > > - *Beth Noveck*, NY Law School Professor and served in the White House > as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and founder and > director of the White House Open Government Initiative > - *Tina Rosenberg*, co-writer of the Fixes column at the New York > Times online, and author of *Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can > Transform the World* and the e-book *D for Deception* > - *Clay Shirky*, NYU Professor of Interactive Telecommunications, and > author of three books on social media: *Cognitive Surplus* (2010), *Here > Comes Everybody* (2008), and *Voices from the Net* (1994) > > Moderated by *Micah L. Sifry*, PDM co-founder and editorial director. > > _______________________________________________ > Core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/core > >
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