Pervasive Politics: How Ubiquitous Technology Will Change Politics & Government
Macaca moments are nothing compared to the impact emerging, disruptive
technologies may have on the political space. How will tomorrow
morning's tech headlines change the way we govern, campaign, and
organize? Expect the unexpected.
Chair: Julie Barko Germany - Director, Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet
Julie Germany serves as the director of the Institute for
Politics, Democracy & the Internet at The George Washington University's
Graduate School of Political Management.
Julie is the principal author and editor of several
publications, including Constituent
Relationship Management: The New Little Black Book of Politics, and Person-to-Person-to-Person: Harnessing the
Political Power of Online Social Networks and User-Generated Content, as
well as The Politics-to-Go-Handbook: A
Guide to Using Mobile Technology in Politics and The Political Consultants' Online Fundraising Primer. She
co-authored Putting Online Influentials
to Work for Your Campaign. She has appeared in national and international
newspapers, magazines, and media, including MSNBC, C-SPAN, Fox News, CBS, and
NBC.
Julie previously served as the deputy director of IPDI. She
worked as a writer, editor and program manager for international initiatives in
Korea, Ukraine, Haiti
and the United States.
Julie is a founding board member of Young Champions, a non-profit that
addresses youth health issues, and a founder of Mobile Monday DC, the local
chapter of an international community of mobile technology experts and
enthusiasts.
As an undergraduate, she studied Literature, Philosophy and
Classics at Messiah
College. Julie also
studied at Keble College,
Oxford University,
as well as in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was a Pew Younger
Scholar of Literature at the University of Notre Dame. She received an M.A.
from The George Washington University, where she was a University Fellow.
Adam Greenfield - Author, "Everyware: The Rise of Ubiquitous Computing in Everyday Life"
Adam
Greenfield is a writer, user experience consultant and critical
futurist. Before starting his current practice, Studies and
Observations, Adam was lead information architect for the Tokyo office
of well-known Web consultancy Razorfish. Prior to that, he worked as
senior information architect for marchFIRST, also in Tokyo. He's also
been, at various points in his career, a rock critic for SPIN Magazine,
a medic at the Berkeley Free Clinic, a coffeehouse owner in West
Philadelphia, and a PSYOP sergeant in the US Army's Special Operations
Command.
With a particular interest in the interplay between
mobility and the user experience, Adam organized the highly successful
First International Moblogging Conference in Tokyo in 2003, acclaimed
as the world's first symposium devoted to the practice of Web
publishing from mobile devices. More recently, Adam sat on the final
jury for the Fusedspace competition on novel uses of information
technology in public space.
A co-founder of professional journal
Boxes & Arrows, Adam has spoken frequently on issues of design,
culture, technology and user experience before a wide variety of
audiences. His Chrysler Design Award-nominated personal site can be
found at www.v-2.org.
Adam lives and works with his wife, artist Nurri Kim, in New York City.
Jonathan Taplin - Professor, University of Southern California
Jonathan
Taplin is a Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at
the University of Southern California. Taplin's areas of
specialization are in international communication management and the
field of digital media entertainment. Taplin began his entertainment
career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he
produced Martin Scorsese's first feature film, Mean Streets which was
selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Between 1974 and 1996, Taplin
produced 26 hours of television documentaries (including The Prize
and Cadillac Desert for PBS) and 12 feature films including The Last
Waltz, Until The End of the World, Under Fire and To Die For. His
films were nominated for Oscar and
Golden Globe awards and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival seven
times.
In
1984 Taplin acted as the investment adviser to the Bass Brothers in
their successful attempt to save Walt Disney Studios from a corporate
raid. This experience brought him to Merrill Lynch, where he served
as vice president of media mergers and acquisitions. In this role, he
helped re-engineer the media landscape on transactions such as the
leveraged buyout of Viacom. Taplin was a founder of Intertainer and
has served as its Chairman and CEO since June 1996. Intertainer was
the pioneer video-on-demand company for both cable and broadband
Internet markets. Taplin holds two patents for video on demand
technologies. Professor Taplin has provided consulting services on
Broadband technology to the President of Portugal and the Parliament
of the Spanish state of Catalonia.
Mr.
Taplin graduated from Princeton University. He is a member of the
Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the advisory
board of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland
and Public Knowledge. Mr.
Taplin was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the
California Broadband Task Force in January of 2007.
Lee Siegel - Author Falling Upwards and Not Remotely Controlled
Lee Siegel is the author of two essay
collections, Falling Upwards and Not Remotely Controlled, the former television critic of the New Republic, book critic for the Nation, and art critic for Slate, and the winner of the
2002 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York
with his wife and son.
Bob Boorstin - Director of Corporate and Policy Communications, Google
Bob Boorstin is Director of Corporate and Policy Communications in the Washington, D.C. office of Google, Inc. Mr. Boorstin brings to Google more than twenty years experience in political communications. national security, public opinion research and journalism. During the Clinton Administration, he served in the National Security Council and advised the Secretaries of Treasury and State.
More recently, he established and ran the national security programs at the Center for American Progress, a leading Washington think tank. He has advised Fortune 500 companies and some of the nation's leading advocacy groups, and worked on more than a dozen political campaigns in the U.S. and abroad.
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