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Thanks, Jennifer ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jennifer Baek <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [SFC-Core] Awesome event: Steven Johnson on the Rise of the "Peer Progressive" To: Alex Leavitt <[email protected]> Cc: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular <[email protected]>, SFC Core <[email protected]> Hi all, For those of you who are unable to attend this event, it is being recorded and will be published on the Personal Democracy website<http://personaldemocracy.com/>(hopefully by tomorrow). I will follow up with a direct link once it's up. Thanks, Jennifer On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Jennifer Baek <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll look into this and get back to you. > > Thanks, > Jennifer > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Alex Leavitt <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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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