Weblogs, Information, and Society

Presented by UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism's New Media Program, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Information Management and Systems, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)

About the Event

Since the last UC Berkeley weblog panel, users have integrated weblogs into their everyday life and work. Weblogs are mainstream, and they are changing the ways people manage knowledge. As the use of weblogs becomes inextricably intertwined with life and work practice, the act of weblogging influences the ways we share knowledge with our community, and audience. The Weblogs Information and Society panel draws webloggers from academe, business, and journalism to explore how weblogs continue to change the way groups and individuals work, learn, and communicate.

The panel will also explore how weblogs, and social software in particular, facilitate civic and creative engagement by increasing the fluidity of information between individuals and organizations. This developing relationship between weblogs, information, and society is significant and deserves further discussion.

University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism North Gate Hall Library, Hearst at Euclid, Berkeley. (Directions here)

Schedule

6:00pm - 6:45pm Food/Wine reception in the courtyard with discussion and interaction

6:45pm-7:00pm Webcast begins. Welcome and introduction from Paul Grabowicz, Assistant Dean of the School of Journalism, and Mary Hodder, from the bIPlog community.

7:00pm-7:30pm Presentation: weblogginng ecosphere and social software by Ross Mayfield. Q&A to follow.

7:30-9:00pm Panel moderated by John Battelle, Director of Business Reporting at the Journalism School, on Blogging and Building the information community. Panelists will discuss what blogging means to their daily practice and how this applies to the currency of their ideas, their relationships with their employer, and how blogs affect their paid work and help build social networks. Q&A to follow.

Participants

Dan Gillmor is a technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and author of eJournal, his weblog. He speaks often about weblogs and journalism, technology and intellectual property.


Scott Rosenberg is Salon's managing editor. He is also the author of Scott Rosenberg's Links and Comment, which covers news of Salon, the blogs of Salon, and the world.


Donna Wentworth writes and edits The Filter , the Berkman Center's electronic newsletter on Internet law and policy. She also writes Copyfight: The Politics of IP , a Berkman Center/Corante.com weblog column on intellectual property politics and issues. In February of 2003, she became co-editor, with Berkman Fellow Dave Winer , of the Weblogs at Harvard weblog.


Ed Felten is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. He also runs Freedom-to-Tinker , his commentary on law and technology.


Ernest Miller is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law
School and the founder and former editor-in-chief of LawMeme, the Law School's collaboratively run weblog.


Ross Mayfield is the CEO of Socialtext , an emerging provider of Social Software Solutions and the founder of the Blog-Network, a community of people who use or are interested in weblogs. He also authors a weblog about emergence, markets, and technology.

Sponsors

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism's New Media Program

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Information Management and Systems

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)

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Webcast: Weblogs, Information, and Society

Weblogs are mainstream, and they are changing the way we manage knowledge, work and communicate. Dan Gillmor, Scott Rosenberg, Donna Wentworth and others are on a panel to explore how this change continues to affect academia, journalism, business, and society.

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