No Frontiers? Free Speech and the Internet
A Cumberland Lodge Conference organised in association with English
PEN and the 21st Century Trust
Wednesday 19th November – Friday 21st November, 2008
***Academic rate £220***
*** Student rate £80***
Bursaries for part of the fee may be available for both academics and students.
Online we are all free to say what we like, write a blog, post a home
movie, start a web site or join a social network community. Or are we?
Who decides what is permitted, what files can be shared or images
downloaded? What happens when countries clamp down on Internet use
within their borders or demand search engines hand over our personal
data? How can we protect our children from unsuitable material or
ourselves from those who would use the web to steal our identities or
micro-target us with commercial or political messages? What say do we
have in what we want to keep private and who is an expert in a world
where we can all pretend to be experts? We in the West may think we
have freedom of expression but perhaps more than ever we need to
consider exactly what constraints this may entail. The conference
will include a session on how political blogging has changed the
nature of the American Presidential election. A daily blog on the
conference's themes will appear on the Guardian's "Comment is Free"
web pages from Saturday November 8th onwards.
The conference fee includes all accommodation and food from
award-winning chefs.
For more information and a registration form please contact Janis
Reeves at: [log in to unmask]
http://www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/our_conferences/forthcoming_conference_pages/no_frontiers_free_speech_and_the_internet.htm
Best wishes,
Janis
Janis Reeves
Co-ordinator, Cumberland Lodge Conference Programmes
A Forum for Creative Debate
Tel: 01784 497794
Fax: 01784 497799
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