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[Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>]

From: Sri Kalyanaraman <sri AT unc.edu>

Just a reminder--we'll have our next speaker in the Spring Colloquium series on 
Thursday March 26, at 2 pm in Room 283, 2nd floor, Carroll Hall. Please feel 
free to forward this to other potentially interested folks.

Who: Prof. Paul Jones, UNC-Chapel Hill

Title: Changing Communities Inside the Media Gap

Abstract: We know that social networking software is creating new spaces for 
discourse and interaction. We see SNS forming the social lives and
attitudes of our children and to some extent ourselves.

How did this come about? Certainly not overnight and not unnoticed by
scholars and technologists.

In 1980, Tetsura Tomito noticed a media gap that he felt will soon be
filled by new communications technologies. At the same time, work in the
areas of social capital, friendship networks, brain scans (fMRI) and
conceptions of community began to grapple with the changes within Tomito's 
media gap.

This talk will look at selected attempts to understand how communities are 
constructed and what changes have already been noticed in these converging 
areas of research.

You are invited to read, edit and comment on the slides by going to GDocs here: 
http://tinyurl.com/JOMC-March-26
and during the presentation, you are invited to bring your backchannel
discussion to the front by joining a gTalk commentary at the same address.

More information on the spring colloquium series may be found at:

http://www.unc.edu/~smithjes/colloquium/spring2009.html

Next (April 2) speaker: Prof. Daniel Solove, George Washington University.

Regards,
Sri