Session
#1. Sustaining Engagement Online: Is
Community in Tension with Collaboration?
Monday, 9:30 - 10:45 AM
| PANELISTS |
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Jennifer
Earl
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Clay
Shirky
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Myles
Weissleder
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Mena
Trott
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Zack
Exley
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Bruce
Bimber
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Relationship of community
and collaboration in online environments; types of support
needed for successful online collaboration and collective action;
similarities and differences between online and offline collaboration;
factors that encourage online communities to expand, sustain,
or atrophy over time.
Session
#2a. Wireless Technology as a Catalyst:
Possibilities for Next-Generation Interaction
Monday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
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Kevin
Almeroth
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Howard
Rheingold
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David
Lockton
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Mimi
Ito
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Supratik
Bhattacharyya
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Ways to study the changes
brought about by new technology and applications; applying
lessons learned about social changes caused by technology when
designing socially beneficial new applications; balancing technological
considerations with user needs and desires; preview of new
wireless technologies entering the market in the short- to
longer-term.
Session
#2b. Self-Regulation in Online Communities:
Exception or Rule?
Monday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
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Angela
Beesley
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Lance
Bennett
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Kirsten
Foot
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Ezster
Hargittai
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Bruce
Bimber
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Characteristics of successful
vs. unsuccessfully self-regulating online communities; prevalence
of successful self-regulatory online communities; differences
in requirements for maintaining order between online and offline
collaborations; ways to discourage uncooperative online behavior.
Session
#3a. Techno-Roaming: Spotlighting Innovations
from Around the World
Monday, 2:15 - 3:45 PM
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Lisa
Parks
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Geert
Lovink
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Madhavi
Mallapragada
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Anil
de Mello
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Amir
Hasson
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Political and economic initiatives
to enhance technological access in developing nations; grassroots
innovation in unexpected places; re-configurations of “Western” technologies
to fit local needs; implications of new technology-based transnational
collaborations; cultural transitions facilitated by technology.
Session
#3b. Coordinating People Online
Monday, 2:15 - 3:45 PM
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Sheeraz
Haji
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Kevin
Matthews
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Cynthia
Stohl
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Josh
Silver
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Jennifer
Earl
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Dynamics of the new organizing
processes taking place on the Internet and via other digital
communication tools; approaches to fully leveraging the Internet
as an organizing tool; inherent difficulties in coordinating
people and activities online; technological and social trends
affecting online coordination; implications for offline coordination
and collaboration.
Special
Presentations and Activities
| PRESENTATION |
Nosh
Contractor
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Mapping
Knowledge Networks:
The Case
of the SB Forum
Presentation and discussion
of mapping, analyzing and navigating multidimensional
networks and communities. Professor Contractor will
demonstrate the
use and development of CI-KNOW (Cyber Infrastructure Knowledge
Networks On the Web), a tool developed by the National Center for
Supercomputing Application's Science of Networks in Communities
(SONIC) research group, using as an example the knowledge networks
among the Forum speakers.
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| STUDENT
FILM |
Sponsored
by Grapefruit Computer |
TechConnect:
Putting the Unity in Community
The world premiere
of an original UCSB student film written and produced
specifically for the Santa Barbara Forum. The film
provides a unique perspective on the
role information & communication technologies play
in the development of community - or not - in the lives
of students in today's networked digital world.
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SESSION DESCRIPTIONS
