OurFloatingPoints 4: Participatory Media
Ulises Mejias + Trebor Scholz
!! TONIGHT !! Emerson College and New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc./Turbulence.org present OurFloatingPoints 4: Participatory Media: Ulises Mejias and Trebor Scholz: The Challenges and Affordances of Participation in the Age of Networked Individualism :: DATE: February 28, 7:00 pm [EST] :: VENUE: Emerson College, Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The event will be streamed live and broadcast to Second Life [Emerson College Island, Emerson Island (145, 109, 23)]. Free and open to all!
This Floating Points event will start with Ulises Mejias and Trebor Scholz both presenting their positions about opportunities and problems with participation in sociable web media. They will then discuss each others argumentation and end with a debate open to the public at large. The sheer scale of current networked sociality demonstrates the potential of sociable web media to democratize society through emerging cultures of broad participation. While phenomena like information overload accompanied the emergence of communication technologies for a very long time, this current social turn is new.
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