7th Annual Conference in Citizenship Studies: Networks and Citizenship
Date and time
April 8 - 10, 2010
About the conference
Citizenship requires networks and networks can confer citizenship. This conference explores the similarities and the tensions between networks and citizenship in the past, present, and future. It also considers how networks have shaped citizenship and how citizenship has influenced the development of networks.
Noted scholar, Yochai Benkler (Harvard University and author of The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom), will give the keynote speech.
Location
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
Speaker(s)
Keynote: Yochai Benkler
Berkman professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard
Faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Before joining the faculty at Harvard Law School, Benkler was Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law at Yale. He writes about the Internet and the emergence of the networked economy and society, as well as the organization of infrastructure, such as wireless communications. In the 1990s he played a role in characterizing the centrality of information commons to innovation, information production, and freedom in both its autonomy and democracy senses.
Sponsors
- Eugene Applebaum Chair - Community Engagement
- Forum on Contemporary Issues in Society (FOCIS)
- Wayne State University
- Wayne State University Irvin D. Reid Honors College
- Wayne State University Technology Resource Center