“Virship” Symposium
I’m looking forward to participating in our WSU symposium on Virtual Citizenship (aka “virship”) happening tomorrow, November 30th starting at 9:00AM in the Bernath Auditorium. You can view the days events streaming live from within SecondLife or on the symposium website’s streaming video page. The symposium will launch a broader research, teaching, and service project that can help us understand what citizenship means in the 21st century and can help our students, staff and faculty use emerging communication and information technologies to become better citizens.Speakers include:
- Russell Dalton, Professor of Political Science at the University of California Irvine, whose recent study called The Good Citizen looks at the attitudes and behaviors of young people
- Fred Stutzman, graduate researcher at the University of North Carolina’s School of Information and Library Science, whose research and active blog outline both the theoretical and practical aspects of social network software and its role in academic and political life.
- Wendy Chun, Associate Professor of Media and Modern Culture at Brown University, who will be talking about “Imagined Networks”.
- Vernor Vinge, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at San Diego State University and award-winning science fiction writer, whose recent Rainbows End is insightful in its thinking about how ubiquitous computing might affect everyday life.
The real estate and ability to stream media within Second Life graciously provided by the New Media Consortium. Live stream coordinates: 135, 124, 22. Join us if you can!