Monday night December 12, NYU, Personal Democracy Media will present a flash conference titled, “From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street and Beyond: The Future of Networked Democracy”
What: From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street and Beyond: The Future of Networked Democracy
When: Monday December 12 2011, 6pm-8.30pm
Where: NYU Kimmel Center, 10th Floor,60 Washington Square South, NYC
Who: Open to public. Register ($5)
Hashtag: #PDMteaows
The conference will explore how decentralized and distributed empowerment is enabling new forms of political movement, and ponder questions like:
* Are these movements leaderless, or leaderfull? And either way, how do they make decisions?
* Are these movements working within the system or trying to create a new one?
* Getting co-opted: A danger or a sign that you’re winning?
* Is a group still its own worst enemy?
* New media and over-communication: how do these movements manage the cacophony they help create?
* Is networked democracy to top-down politics what citizen media is to broadcast media?
Speakers:
Ori Brafman, co-author, The Starfish and the Spider
Beka Economopolous, organizer, Occupy Wall Street
Marianne Manilov, co-founder, The Engage Network;
Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder, Tea Party Patriots
Mark Meckler, co-founder, Tea Party Patriots
Clay Shirky, NYU, author, Here Comes Everybody
Marina Sitrin, author, Horizontalism;
Nelini Stamp, organizer, Occupy Wall Street
Zeynep Tufekci, University of North Carolina.
Moderated by Micah L. Sifry and Andrew Rasiej
On October 25 2012 Engine Advocacy and the New York Tech Meetup will present The Open Internet and the 2012 Election at NYU Stern School of Business. The event will be in the form of a conversation with Fred Wilson, Clay Shirky, and Susan Crawford. Space is limited, tickets are $10 and you need an Amazon account to buy one. No webcast has been announced as yet.
