Events

Please help me reprise the Digital Ethnorati Panel at SXSW next year; and in the process, bring outstanding African American, Asian American, Latino, Native American and other minority teenage technologists to one of the most important new media conferences in the United States.

Liza with Bianca and Samantha, two awesome ambassadors for the Digital Ethnorati

One of my accomplishments this year was to be able to put together a panel at the prestigious South by Southwest new media conference, discussing the rising influence and importance of african american, latino, asian and other minorities early adopters of digital, new media and mobile technologies.

In this panel I attempted to open a reframing of the digital divide by asking the question : If minorities are such profitable early adopters of digital, mobile and new media technologies, why is it that we're still treated as if we were technology illiterate?

For that matter, Mini Khanlon's talked about the accomplishments of The Level Playing Field Institute and her experience as an upper class Indian woman who understood the social privileges of many Asian Americans.

The second presentation was with Stephen Wilmarth, Bianca Velez and Samantha Perez of The Center for 21st Century Skills. This presentation was heartbreaking, as one of the students of the program had been deported to Brazil and was giving her part of the presentation through Skype.

I leave for JFK to get on a flight to Austin, Texas. No thanks to Continental Airlines, I will have a three hour layover in Houston.

Sigh.

I will check in once I get there. I will also post more about the panel and what we would like to accomplish with the launch of The Digital Ethnorati project.

For the feminists out there, pay attention. This is basically what I have been trying to do with y'all.

Stay tuned.

Though we've recently attracted a Kos-bashing concern troll, we'd like to point our readers in the direction of a fundraiser for the upcoming Yearly Kos Convention.

Via YearlyKos:

Join activists, organizers and on-lookers, as we drink, laugh and carouse liberally to celebrate the DailyKos community and prepare for the 2007 YearlyKos Convention.

With special guests Marcy Wheeler ("Emptywheel"), author of "Anatomy of Deceit" and Libby Trial blogger, the comedians of Laughing Liberally, the sweet eats of Eating Liberally, fellow Kossacks, bloggers & rabble-rousers.

Hosted by Living Liberally with Vaster Books, Young People For The American Way & the Kossack community of New York City.

Free food, cheap drinks, great gifts, lively conversation & progressive camaraderie!

Saturday, March 10th - 6-9pm
The Tank @ C:U - 279 Church Street
btw Franklin & White, just below Canal
A,C,E,J,M,N,Q,R,W,Z,6 to Canal; 1 to Franklin

$50 - YearlyKos Suggested Donation
$100 - YearlyKos Fundraiser Host

To register, please click here.

Blogs and Politics
7pm October 25th
NYU Vanderbilt Hall
7:00pm to 9:00pm

co-hosted by the NYU Law School Democrats.

Top tier New York Bloggers will be on hand to discuss new media in New York politics and analyze the result of the DL21C Blog Straw Poll.

Link to survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=362362674986

RSVP http://www.dl21c.org/insertform2.php?event_id=159

Blogging: The Power of Citizen Journalism

Learn why blogging has become such a phenomena, what it’s good for …. And what it’s bad for.

Moderator:

Patrick Foye, President and CEO, United Way of Long Island

Panelists:

Jim Cameron, President, Cameron Communications, Inc.

Robert Cox, President, Media Bloggers Association

Norm Prusslin, Director, Media & Interdisciplinary Arts Minors, Stony Brook University

Liza Sabater, Publisher, culturekitchen.com

Steve Safran, President, Safran Media Group, Managing Editor, LostRemote.com

*Sponsored by Briarcliffe College

For more information go to
http://www.fairmediacouncil.org/programs.asp

I pass on the following call for papers:

Program Theme:
The Language of Violence: Critical Thinking about War and Peace

Saturday, November 18, 2006
SUNY Cortland, New York
Corey Union

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Gail Presby, University of Detroit , Mercy

Over the last five years, the language of violence has entered public discourse more than ever before. Words like "war," "terrorism," even "peace" are being used in new ways. In this conference we want to ask questions about the use and meaning of language and the way language shapes public consciousness, ethical thinking and responses to violence (in the media, from government and military spokespeople, in entertainment, in the academy). We invite proposals from professors, activists, graduate and undergraduate students, across the disciplines, in areas relating to, but no restricted to, the rhetoric of violence. Paper presentations should be twenty minutes in length.

The deadline for proposals and abstracts is October 25, 2006.
Please send proposals for a panel, workshop, or roundtable discussion. Limit proposals to no more than 500 words. Also, send abstracts of articles (no more than 500 words) for consideration.