Event

First National Professional Development Seminar for Ethnic Media Colleagues

Wednesday, November 15
Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036

New America Media invites you to our first national professional development seminar for ethnic media editors, reporters and marketing associates. The all-day seminar features business and editorial workshops and follows the First National Ethnic Media Awards Banquet on Tuesday, November 14, 2006.

At 2:00pm, Liza Sabater, whose blog CultureKitchen is one of the top 100 progressive blogs in the United States, gives a workshop on the hows and whys of taking your news online and if you haven't already done it, developing blogs for your top commentators.

Speaker:
Liza Sabater, Writer, Blogger, Netactivist, www.culturekitchen.com

Faiz Shakir, Deputy Research Director, www.thinkprogress.org and the Progress Report, Center for American Progress

Chris Rabb, founder and chief evangelist, Afro-Netizen

Feminist Futures
Blogging Feminism:
(Web)Sites of Resistance
A panel discussion
Tuesday, 14 November, 7:00 PM
Altschul Atrium, Altschul Hall
Free & open to the public; no reservations required.

Cyberspace . . . will have important effects in encouraging women to participate in designing and implementing models of economic development, constructing stable democracies, ensuring that different cultures can exist side by side without violent conflict and providing the sense of trust, partnership and solidarity that are necessary to any society in which people cooperate for mutual well-being.
- Lourdes Arizpe

Of the internet's viability as a tool for political change, we ask, is there a better example than the blog? Young and youthfully minded feminists have learned that blogging allows them to carve out personal and political spaces where their lives, their issues, their analyses of the world can come into sharp focus. Outside the confines of mainstream media, where women are addressed (usually exclusively) as consumers, feminist bloggers have become the cultural producers blazing some of the most radical and rousing paths toward revolutionary social change.

This spring, The Scholar & Feminist Online, will publish issue 5.3 - "Blogging Feminism: (Web)Sites of Resistance." On Tuesday, 14 November, guest editors Gwendolyn Beetham and Jessica Valenti come together with select contributors to discuss how feminists are fulfilling the promise of creating a cybercommunity dedicated to securing a more just and peaceful world. Panelists include Lauren Spees and Michelle Riblett, BC '05 (Hollaback), Liza Sabater (Culture Kitchen), and Alice Marwick (Tiara).