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The CREW seminar generally meets once per month. All members of the community are welcome to attend. |
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September 18 (TUE) |
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Sandra Braman 
The Politics of Openness in the Construction of Memory |
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Those in the openness movement believe that access to information is inherently democratic, and assume the effects of openness will all be good from the movement's perspective. But means are not ends, nothing is inevitable, and just what will be done with openly available information once achieved is rarely specified. One implicit goal of the openness movement is to create and sustain politically useful memory in situations in which official memory may not suffice, but to achieve this, openness is not enough. With the transition from a panopticon to a panspectron environment, the production of open information not only provides support for communities but also contributes to surveillance. Proprietary ownership of information is being challenged, but there is erosion of ownership in the sense of being confident in what is known. Some tactics currently in use need to be re-evaluated to determine their actual effects under current circumstances. Successfully achieving tactical memory in the 21st century also requires experimentation with new types of tactics, including those of technological discretion and of scale as a medium. At the most abstract level, the key political battle of the 21st century may not be between particular political parties or ideologies but, rather, the war between mathematics and narrative creativity. |
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Sandra Braman is Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and in 2008 will serve as the Freedom of Expression Professor at the University of Bergen in Norway. She has been doing research on the macro-level effects of digital technologies and their policy implications for over two decades, often with support from the Rockefeller, Ford, and Soros foundations. She designed and launched the first graduate program in telecommunications and information policy on the African continent, for the University of South Africa in 1997-1998. She has published over seventy scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and books; served as book review editor of the Journal of Communication; is former Chair of the Communication Law & Policy Division of the International Communication Association; and sits on the editorial boards of nine scholarly journals. Recent work includes Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power (MIT Press, 2006) and the edited volumes The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Biotechnology and Communication: The Meta-Technologies of Information (Erlbaum, 2004), and Communication Researchers and Policy-Making (MIT Press, 2003). |
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Room 411 is best known as the Ehrlicher Room, in honor of alumna Virginia Ehrlicher whose gifts to the School of Information made renovation of the room possible. It contains a large-screen projection system and is equipped for general computing capabilities. |
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Download maps in PDF illustrating the location of West Hall. |
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