NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 12 November 2008 Computers and Society: Amanda Michel on Technology, Networks, and Journalism

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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:36:14 -0500
To: announce-at-isoc-ny.org
From: ISOC-NY announcements
Subject: [isoc-ny] Amanda Michel - "Technology, Networks, and Journalism" @ NYU Wednesday

ISOC-NY is a co-sponsor of Evan Korth's Computers & Society
speaker series at NYU this fall. The next talk is tomorrow
Wednesday. It will feature Amanda Michel - her topic is
"Technology, Networks, and Journalism."

Amanda Michel is Director of HuffPost's OffTheBus. Amanda started
in politics during the 2003-2004 campaign cycle, working as the
National Director of Generation Dean and then creating and
managing the MediaCorps program for the Kerry- Edwards
campaign. Along with several other Kerry-Edwards coworkers she
helped co-found the New Organizing Institute in the wake of the
2004 election. Since then she's taken her online organizing
skills to media, working at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet
& Society and on Assignment Zero, a Wired and NewAssignment.net
collaboration. She is also a Knight Digital Media Fellow.

Date: Wed November 12 2008
Time: 3.30pm - 4.45pm
Location:
Warren Weaver Hall NYU Rm 109
251 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10012

Members and public welcome. Enter via W. 4th St. Photo ID required.

http://computersandsociety.net

Amanda has declined to be videotaped so there will be no webcast
on this one. If you want to see/hear what she has to say -
attend!

Video of previous talks can be found on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...&search=Search


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Distributed poC TINC:

Jay Sulzberger
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org