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  • From: Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: Greg Newby <gbnewby AT ruby.ils.unc.edu>, <inls281 AT listserv.unc.edu>
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  • Subject: [internetworkers] Hacktivism: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable, 4/17/03
  • Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:48:07 -0400 (EDT)

at Duke -- they need real hackers!
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Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 10:41:03 -0400
From: Katie Lenhard Watchman <watchman AT duke.edu>
To: edward.shanken AT duke.edu
Subject: Hacktivism: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable, 4/17/03

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Hacktivism
An Interdisciplinary Roundtable

17 April 2003, 7pm
Duke University
John Hope Franklin Center, room 240
Durham, NC

HACKTIVISM joins the techniques of computer hacking with social activism,
giving rise to what has been labeled "Electronic Civil Disobedience." A
legal scholar, media scholar, alternative media producer, and
artist/hacktivist will discuss the topic from a variety of theoretical and
practical perspectives.

ROUNDTABLE TOPICS
"Talking Past Each Other: Using the Internet for Social Change in the
Developing World" (Rogerson)
"Bacterial Kibitzing with the WTO" (Bichlbaum)
"Legal Ramifications of Hacktivism" (Jenkins)
"Make Your Own Media" (Russell)

SPEAKERS
Kenneth Rogerson, Ph.D., is the Research Director of the DeWitt Wallace
Center for Communications and
Journalism, Sanford Institute, Duke University
Andrew Bichlbaum is a founding member of the Yes Men, based in New York,
New York
Jennifer Jenkins is the Director of the Center for the Public Domain, Duke
University
Brian Russell is a media activist affiliated with the NC Independent Media
Association

LINKS
Hacktivism Roundtable website:
<http://www.duke.edu/web/isis/hacktivisim/speakerinfo.html>
ISIS <http://www.isis.duke.edu>
DeWitt Wallace Center <http://www-pps.aas.duke.edu/centers/dewitt/>
Yes Men <http://www.theyesmen.org/>
Center for the Public Domain < http://www.centerpd.org/>
Directions to John Hope Franklin Center
<http://www.duke.edu/web/jhfcenter/about/map.html>

Organized by the Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS) program,
in collaboration with the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and
Journalism and the Center for the Public Domain at Duke University.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, contact Katie Watchman at 919.668.1934



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