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CONTACT:lectures@rsa.org.uk
ORGANIZER:Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts\, Manufactures and Co
 mmerce (RSA)
DTEND:20070525T170000
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DESCRIPTION:*Speakers:* Cass Sunstein\, Tom Steinberg\, Andrew Chadwick\, W
 illiam Davies\, Matthew Taylor\, Bronwyn Kunhardt\, Georgina Henry 
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\nTh
 e RSA is looking to explore the political culture and norms that the intern
 et has been instrumental in fostering\, both in relation to centralised dem
 ocratic politics\, and more diffuse social and civic networks.
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\nOur vie
 w is that the high hopes of the 90s for e-democracy and new forms of on-lin
 e consultation and community mobilisation have not been fully met.
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\nRat
 her than fostering new forms of constructive engagement\, dialogue and 'pro
 -social' community action\, the type of politics most favoured by the inter
 net seems to be conversations between fellow believers\, anti-establishment
  cynicism and single issue mobilisation.
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\nToo many attempts by public a
 uthorities to use the web simply involved putting existing information and 
 processes on-line.
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\nThe communication model has mostly been vertical an
 d mainly downward. But we think the emergence of what many are calling Web 
 2.0 offers an opportunity to revive the idealism of a decade ago. We can en
 visage Web 2.0 encouraging a rich and constructive dialogue in which citize
 ns deliberate\, innovate and act together.
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\nThis conference will ask: H
 ow can new internet technologies empower us to interact with each other in 
 novel ways?
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SUMMARY:The Social Impact of the Web: Society\, Government and the Internet
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