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

[Dearden, Andrew M]

Yes - that sounds really useful.
 
I am unable to go to this one. 
 
If someone wants to go on behalf of T & SA, we can pay reasonable expenses in return for a report back.
 
 
Andy
 
 

Andy Dearden
Communications & Computing Research Centre
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield
S1 1WB

Tel: 0114 225 2916
email: a.m.dearden at shu.ac.uk 

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	May be of interest,
	 
	Steve
	 
	________________________________________________________________
	Steve Walker, Senior Lecturer
	Leeds Metropolitan University
	School of Information Management
	Phone: (44) 113 283 7448

________________________________

	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 
	  
	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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