All posts tagged with 'networks'
Clay Shirky is a writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He has a joint appointment at New York University (NYU) as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Assistant Arts Professor in the New Media focused graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client–server infrastructure that characterizes the World Wide Web. His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, and how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. His written work includes the books Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (2008) and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (2010).
Opening keynote address: “Massively Collaborative Scholarship”
Wendy Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT, 2006), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (forthcoming MIT, 2011), and she is co-editor of New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (Routledge, 2005) and of a special issue of Camera Obscura entitled Race and/as Technology. She will be a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton next year and has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, a Wriston Fellow at Brown and a fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, as well as a visiting associate professor in the History of Science Department at Harvard. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Imagined Networks.
Closing keynote address: “Crisis, Crisis, Crisis, or The Temporality of Networks”