The UWM student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is providing an opportunity for interested students to learn the basic skills of Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Indesign, Apple GarageBand and Apple Final Cut Pro. The workshop will be held on Monday, Dec. 3 from 7-8pm in Johnston Hall JMC computer labs (lower level).
Space is limited. Sign up sheets are located on the SPJ bulletin board across from the Journalism and Mass Communication department office (Johnston Hall, Room 117). Students can also e-mail rebeccakontowicz[at]gmail.com to make a reservation.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Colloquium: Power in the Informational State
Power in the Informational State:
The Social Effects of Information Policy
Sandra Braman
Dec. 7, 3 pm, 244 Merrill Hall
There has been a phase change—a change of state—in the extent to which governments exercise power by deliberately, explicitly, and consistently controlling information creation, processing, flows, and use. Informational power exerts its influence by altering the materials, rules, institutions, ideas, and symbols that are the means by which instrumental, structural, and symbolic forms of power are exercised. Three types of knowledge must be brought together to understand just how this change of state has come about and what it means for the exercise of power domestically and globally: In addition to knowledge of the law itself, research on the empirical world provides evidence about the policy subject (the world for which policy is made) and social theory provides an analytical foundation. Bringing these types of knowledge together makes visible the social effects of information policy as they affect identities of the state and of its citizens; the nature of social, technological, and communicative structures; the borders of those structures; and how those structures change. This talk will look at ways in which legal trends in information policy – wherever they come from across the traditional silos of the law – interact to affect society in each of these dimensions. Legal issues discussed include not only familiar topics such as intellectual property rights and privacy, but also lesser-known issues such as hybrid citizenship, the use of “functionally equivalent” borders to allow exceptions to U.S. law, research funding, census methods, and network interconnection. Such trends in information policy both manifest and trigger changes in the nature of governance itself.
The Social Effects of Information Policy
Sandra Braman
Dec. 7, 3 pm, 244 Merrill Hall
There has been a phase change—a change of state—in the extent to which governments exercise power by deliberately, explicitly, and consistently controlling information creation, processing, flows, and use. Informational power exerts its influence by altering the materials, rules, institutions, ideas, and symbols that are the means by which instrumental, structural, and symbolic forms of power are exercised. Three types of knowledge must be brought together to understand just how this change of state has come about and what it means for the exercise of power domestically and globally: In addition to knowledge of the law itself, research on the empirical world provides evidence about the policy subject (the world for which policy is made) and social theory provides an analytical foundation. Bringing these types of knowledge together makes visible the social effects of information policy as they affect identities of the state and of its citizens; the nature of social, technological, and communicative structures; the borders of those structures; and how those structures change. This talk will look at ways in which legal trends in information policy – wherever they come from across the traditional silos of the law – interact to affect society in each of these dimensions. Legal issues discussed include not only familiar topics such as intellectual property rights and privacy, but also lesser-known issues such as hybrid citizenship, the use of “functionally equivalent” borders to allow exceptions to U.S. law, research funding, census methods, and network interconnection. Such trends in information policy both manifest and trigger changes in the nature of governance itself.
Friday, November 16, 2007
RADICAL REJECT
RADICAL REJECT
“Paint the White House Black” (George Clinton)
Wanted: rejected, denied, suppressed, repressed, uncontainable ideas. This is a call for ideas that are too big, bountiful and bold. Have you ever had a project/proposal/application turned down? Received a thanks-but-no-thanks letter from an arts institution/grant dispenser/curator? This is not a show about rejection, it is a show about RADICALS who REJECT rejection, and refuse to be beat down, lie down, denied, go unheard or unseen or away. Submit your proposal, text, images, application, rejection letter, runner-up certificate or project that has been deemed too radical by the petty bougie jury/committee/overseer out there. Previous receipt of awards, grants and opportunities does not prevent you from participating. RADICAL REJECT will eventually take a printed form, so keep this in mind. Sound, video, film, etc. are welcome, but several hundred will be printed, and CD/DVD inserts may be supplied by the artist. Scripts, notes, diary entries, deleted emails, voice mail messages, torn up letters and trashed documents also welcome. Please pass this along to all who may be interested.
Submit by:
January 1, 2008
nicecookies[at]sbcglobal.net
or
RADICAL REJECT
c/o Kim Miller
2121 N. 52nd St.
Milwaukee, WI 53208
USA
“Paint the White House Black” (George Clinton)
Wanted: rejected, denied, suppressed, repressed, uncontainable ideas. This is a call for ideas that are too big, bountiful and bold. Have you ever had a project/proposal/application turned down? Received a thanks-but-no-thanks letter from an arts institution/grant dispenser/curator? This is not a show about rejection, it is a show about RADICALS who REJECT rejection, and refuse to be beat down, lie down, denied, go unheard or unseen or away. Submit your proposal, text, images, application, rejection letter, runner-up certificate or project that has been deemed too radical by the petty bougie jury/committee/overseer out there. Previous receipt of awards, grants and opportunities does not prevent you from participating. RADICAL REJECT will eventually take a printed form, so keep this in mind. Sound, video, film, etc. are welcome, but several hundred will be printed, and CD/DVD inserts may be supplied by the artist. Scripts, notes, diary entries, deleted emails, voice mail messages, torn up letters and trashed documents also welcome. Please pass this along to all who may be interested.
Submit by:
January 1, 2008
nicecookies[at]sbcglobal.net
or
RADICAL REJECT
c/o Kim Miller
2121 N. 52nd St.
Milwaukee, WI 53208
USA
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