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ConneCted PubliCsPower and Politics in a Networked Age

MODERATED BYSheila JasanoffHarvard Kennedy school

A PANEL DISCUSSION FEATURING

Lucy Suchmansociology, lancaster university

Antoine Picon Harvard Graduate school of design

Yochai BenklerHarvard law school

Sherry Turklests, Mit

WEDNESDAY March 11, 20095:00-7:00 pmPiper Auditorium, Gund Hall48 Quincy StreetHarvard University

SCIENCE & DEMOCRACYLECTURE SERIES 2009

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“Bees with brood” (“Bienen mit Brut”) photograph by “Waugsberg” at Wikimedia Commons (with modifications by Alex Wellerstein), licensed Creative Commons Attribute ShareAlike 2.5 (creativecommons.org).

PAnelists (in order of appearance)

Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the social studies of science and technology in the Mit Program in science, technology, and society, and the founder and director of the Mit initiative on technology and self, a center of research and reflection on the evolving connections between people and artifacts.

Yochai Benkler is the berkman Professor of entrepreneurial legal studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the berkman Center for Internet and Society. He writes about the Internet and the emergence of networked economy and society, as well as the organization of infrastructure, such as wireless communications.

Lucy Suchman is professor of anthropology of science and technology in the department of sociology at lancaster university, and co-director of Lancaster’s Centre for Science Studies. Previously, she spent twenty years at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, where she was a founding member and manager of the Work Practice and Technology area. Her research includes ethnographic studies of everyday practices of technology design and use.

Antoine Picon is Professor of the History of Architecture and technology and Co-director of doctoral Programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian of science and art, Picon is best known for his work in the history of architectural technologies from the eighteenth century to the present.