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==Overview==
==Overview==
Since the last iLaw conference was held nearly five years ago, the debates at the intersection of
''Format'': Introductory Lecture, Lightning Presentations and Moderated Discussion<br/>
technology, law, and policy have continued to evolve. The introduction of new technologies –
''Leads'': Jeffrey Schnapp, Jesse Shapins, others<br/>
and new uses of old technologies – raise a broad range of problems to explore. To name a few
''Participants'': Victor Ban, Joseph Bergen, James Burns, Peter Galison, Kara Oehler, Kyle Parry,
examples, the intervening years have seen the growth of social networking tools; Facebook
Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Joana Pimenta, Julia Yezbick
has gained more than 750 million users worldwide and has found itself at the center of privacy
debates. Information technologies have played an unprecedented role in recent protests in the
Middle East and North Africa, at times in tension with US foreign policy and export controls. In
the US, government regulators and major ISPs continue to struggle with to find the right balance
points for network governance and regulatory authority.


Growing Internet usage trends, disruptive technologies, increased efforts by governments and
This pillar session will address the current state of digital humanities, an umbrella term for new
private entities to control the online space continue to reshape the cyber landscape. These issues,
modes of scholarship that emphasize collaborative, transdisciplinary, computationally-engaged
alongside the actors who provide the technologies and the users who engage with them, are at the
research, teaching, and dissemination. Digital Humanities is less a unified field than an array of
center of many global policy debates. iLaw 2011 will be a unique opportunity to reexamine these
convergent practices that explore a universe in which print is no longer the normative medium
areas of inquiry and core questions while engaging with the new and emerging issues and thorny
in which knowledge is produced and disseminated; digital tools, techniques, and media have
debates that are constantly reshaping the field.
expanded traditional concepts of knowledge in the arts, human and social sciences. The session
will address fundamental questions such as: How can traditional humanities skills be reshaped
in multimedia terms? How and by whom will the contours of cultural and historical memory be
defined in the digital era? How might practices of digital storytelling coincide or diverge from
oral or print-based storytelling? What is the place of humanitas in a networked world?


The 2011 iLaw Program is designed to take participants through the evolution of information
==Lightning Speakers==
technologies and the Internet, including their past, present, and future. Each module will provide
a bridge to the past, beginning with a brief sketch of how a particular issue has evolved over the
course of recent decades, both from an intellectual history perspective and via changes in policy,
practice, and technology. Faculty and selected guests will use this foundation to explore how
technical, social, legal, economic, and policy trends and debates have evolved over time, and
identify the primary questions and issues that currently define the online space.
 
==Speakers==
*[http://zeega.org/ James Burns]
*[http://zeega.org/ James Burns]
*Known Unknown (Kara Oehler)
*Known Unknown (Kara Oehler)

Revision as of 14:13, 27 July 2011

iLaw Wiki Navigation
Pillar Themes of iLaw
Open Systems/Access · Online Liberty and FOE
The Changing Internet: Cybersecurity · Intellectual Property
Digital Humanities · Cooperation · Privacy
Cross-sectional Themes of iLaw
The History of the Internet
The Global Internet · Interoperability
The Study of the Internet: New Methods for New Technologies
The Future of the Internet
Case Studies
Digital Libraries, Archives, and Rights Registries
Exploring the Arab Spring · Minds for Sale
User Innovation · Mutual Aid
Misc
Program Schedule · Program Logistics
Evening Events · Student Projects · Participation
Old iLaw Videos · Mid-Point Check-in

Overview

Format: Introductory Lecture, Lightning Presentations and Moderated Discussion
Leads: Jeffrey Schnapp, Jesse Shapins, others
Participants: Victor Ban, Joseph Bergen, James Burns, Peter Galison, Kara Oehler, Kyle Parry, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Joana Pimenta, Julia Yezbick

This pillar session will address the current state of digital humanities, an umbrella term for new modes of scholarship that emphasize collaborative, transdisciplinary, computationally-engaged research, teaching, and dissemination. Digital Humanities is less a unified field than an array of convergent practices that explore a universe in which print is no longer the normative medium in which knowledge is produced and disseminated; digital tools, techniques, and media have expanded traditional concepts of knowledge in the arts, human and social sciences. The session will address fundamental questions such as: How can traditional humanities skills be reshaped in multimedia terms? How and by whom will the contours of cultural and historical memory be defined in the digital era? How might practices of digital storytelling coincide or diverge from oral or print-based storytelling? What is the place of humanitas in a networked world?

Lightning Speakers

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