[esocialaction] FW: OII News [2005.11.16]: E-Participation and Power: the Copper Wire and the Electricity

[Paula Graham]

I attended this event - thought the areas of research recommended by
Stephen Coleman would be of interest to this group - possibly the
OpenDocumentaries project should focus on these less tangible areas as
much as on developing practical tools?:

    *

      Democratic institutions must be sensitised to popular discourses –
      research is needed into the modes and potentials of digital
      storytelling

    *

      The Civic Commons must empower those who don't currently expect to
      be listened to as well as those who do – research is needed into
      how people use the internet to express themselves and how
      appropriate architecture can diminish social selection in
      political expression and breach the digital divide

    *

      Participation must be seen to have tangible results or the public
      will not participate – how to create an authentic relationship
      between the public and existing infrastructures of power.

I'm attaching a summary of the whole presentation (from my own notes so
apologies for any misrepresentation of Prof Coleman :-)

Paula


Walker, Steve wrote:

> May be of interest,
> Steve
> ________________________________________________________________
> Steve Walker, Senior Lecturer
> Leeds Metropolitan University
> School of Information Management
> Phone: (44) 113 283 7448
>
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> *From:* OII Events [mailto:events at oii.ox.ac.uk]
> *Sent:* Wed 16/11/05 11:01
> *To:* OII-contacts at maillist.ox.ac.uk
> *Subject:* OII News [2005.11.16]: E-Participation and Power: the
> Copper Wire and the Electricity
>
> Dear All,
>
> Please may we bring your attention to 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
> Respondent: Alex Allan, Permanent Secretary, 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
> 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 events at oii.ox.ac.uk
>
> 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
>
> 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
>
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