The balance of power in American and international politics can shift in a heartbeat due to social media - Facebook, Twitter, trending, blogging. What's in store for 2012 and for future online political and social movements?
Next Tuesday, join DL21C'ers along with host The Common Good and co-host PolicyMic.com for a fascinating panel on Social Media and its changing impact on politics.
Panelists:
Ron Agam, Photographer at Park West Gallery and Creator, " One Million Facebook Members for Democracy in Iran"
Ben Smith, National Political Writer and Contributor, Politico.com
Barnett Zitron, Former Managing Director, WhyTuesday.com, YouTube.com, and Mayor Bloomberg's former videographer
Moderated by Ari Melber, Net Movement correspondent, The Nation; Columnist, Politico.com; Contributing Editor, TechPresident,com
NOTE: SAVE THE DATE - DL21C SUMMER BASH - AUGUST 16!!!
Tuesday, July 26
6:30pm
$10 General Admission
RSVP Here or to
http://thecommongood.net/2011/07/politicalblogging/
About the speakers:
Ron Agam (www.ronagam.com) is an artist, photographer and social media pioneer. In 2009, Ron started, through his Facebook page, one of the largest pro-democracy movements in history - the world's largest campaign to promote democracy in Iran. You can read more about his experience here: http://ronagam.blogspot.com/2010/07/facebookdemocracy-in-iran-and-me.html,
Ben Smith (http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/) writes a blog about national politics for POLITICO. During the 2008 presidential campaign, he covered the Democratic primary. Before joining POLITICO, he was a political columnist for the New York Daily News and in 2005 and 2006 started three of New York City's leading political blogs, The Politicker, The Daily Politics and Room Eight, for which he still writes occasionally about the New York scene.
Barnett Zitron (www.whytuesday.com) is a videographer and rising star in the social media world. He worked with founders Jacob Sokoroff and XXXX to re-launch Why Tuesday?, which is now one of the nation's premier video blogs for election-related content. Previously, he served as Executive Director of the Ultimate College Bowl, an unprecedented effort conceived by Why Tuesday? to register every eligible US college student to vote in the 2008 elections, and as a videographer to Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2009.
Ari Melber (http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion) is the Net movement correspondent for The Nation magazine, the oldest political weekly in America, a writer forThe Nation’s blog, columnist for Politico and an attorney. During the 2008 general election, Melber traveled with the Obama Campaign on special assignment for The Washington Independent. He previously served as a Legislative Aide in the U.S. Senate. Melber is also a contributing editor at techPresident, a nonpartisan website covering technology’s impact on democracy. Melber founded "Ask the President", a project to inject citizen questions into White House press conferences, which Columbia Journalism Review dubbed “an idea whose time has come,” and he has participated in numerous online coalitions advocating open government and civil liberties. Melber received a B.A. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and a J.D. from Cornell Law School, where he was an editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy.
About our host and co-host:
The Common Good (www.thecommongood.net) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that strives to inspire broad participation in our democracy through the free exchange of ideas and civil dialogue and seeks to find ways to bridge the growing divisions that threaten our nation. The Common Good is dedicated to finding common ground and, through forums and initiatives, encouraging the civic engagement so essential for a thriving democracy.
PolicyMic (www.policymic.com), started in 2010, is an online platform for political news and debate that aims to engage a newgeneration of young Americans, and bring left and right together in real conversations about real issues. At the heart of PolicyMic is its unique content: head-to-head debates, opinion pieces, original reporting, and multimedia showcasing multiple perspectives and produced by a new generation of voices.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
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Tuesday, August 16
DL21C’s 19th Annual Summer Bash!!!
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