From: OII Events [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 30 November 2005 15:46
To: OII-contacts
Subject: OII News [2005.11.30]: E-Participation and Power: the Copper Wire
and the Electricity
Dear All,
Please may we remind you of the following forthcoming event:
'E-Participation and Power: the Copper Wire and the Electricity'
Speaker: Stephen Coleman, Cisco Visiting Professor of e-Democracy, Oxford
Internet Institute
Chair: Bill Dutton, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute
We are pleased to announce that Zephyr Teachout who is a Research Fellow at
the Berkman Center has also agreed to respond to Stephen's talk along with
Alex Allan, Permanent Secretary at the Department of Constitutional Affairs
.
Professor Jay G. Blumler will be in attendance as a special guest of the
OII. He was a mentor to many academics, including Professors Stephen
Coleman and Bill Dutton, and the recipient of the 2005 Career Achievement
Award from the Political Communication Section of the American Political
Science Association.
Date: 07 December 2005, 17:00 - 18:30, followed by a drinks reception at
Said Business School.
Location: Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre, Said Business School, Park End
Street, Oxford OX1 1HP
Attendance: This event is open to the public, if you would like to attend
please email your name and affiliation, if any, to [log in to unmask]
Abstract:
Some e-participation projects have been funded and promoted by governments;
others have been initiated by grass-roots activitists and communities. What
is the relationship between such projects and the distribution of political
power? Top-down/governmental e-participation can be accused of allowing the
public to 'have their say' in ways that are subsequently ignored, about
issues that have already been decided upon. Bottom-up/grass roots
initiatives can be criticised as 'virtual talking shops' which are isolated
from the structures of decision-making. What scope is there for e-enabled
co-governance?
Biography: Stephen Coleman
BA hons and PhD from London University. Formerly Director of the Hansard
e-democracy programme, which pioneered online consultations for the UK
Parliament, and lecturer in Media & Communication at the London School of
Economics and Political Science. Chaired the Independent Commission on
Alternative Voting Methods. Recent publications include ; Bowling Together
(with John Gotze), Hansard Society, 2001; Realising Democracy Online: A
Civic Commons in Cyberspace(with Jay G. Blumler), IPPR, 2001; 2001: A Cyber
Space Oddysey: the Internet in the UK Election, Hansard Society, 2001;
Televised Election Debates: International Perspectives, Macmillan 2000;
Parliament in the Age of the Internet (edited with J. Taylor and W. van de
Donk) OUP, 1999. At the OII, Professor Coleman will be working on the
adaptation of representative institutions in the digital age; the
development of spaces for public democratic deliberation; and a global
evaluation of a range of e-democracy exercises.
Biography: Alex Allan
See: http://www.dca.gov.uk/dept/changprog/allana.htm
Biography: Zephyr Teachout
Zephyr Teachout, J.D., M.A. (Political Science) was the Director of Online
Organizing for Howard Dean's campaign, where she managed the collaborative
development of social software by and with the Dean grassroots. She has
written about the organizing role of the internet, and is currently working
on an article for the Duke Law Journal on how the FEC might restructure
itself to enable more political action. She currently teaches Internet and
Politics at the University of Vermont and is a non-resident fellow at the
Berkman Center.
She has founded and been the Executive Director of two nonprofits dedicated
to training young people: The Fair Trial Initiative (training young lawyers
for Death Penalty trial work) and Baobabs College Labs (connecting young
political activists with open source software - now part of Music for
America). She is a board member of the Fair Trial Initiative and the
Participatory Culture Foundation.
She holds an M.A. in Political Science and a J.D. from Duke, where she
graduated summa cum laude and was the Editor in Chief of the Duke Law
Journal.
For further information on all OII events, please refer to our website at:
www.oii.ox.ac.uk
We hope to see you there.
Kind Regards
The Events Team
Oxford Internet Institute
1 St Giles
University of Oxford
Oxford
OX1 3JS
Tel: +44 (0)1865 287209
Fax: +44 (0)1865 287211
www.oii.ox.ac.uk
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