Community Needs and Cyber Challenges

[Doug Schuler]

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               Community Needs and Cyber Challenges:

              Activists Explore Connection in Seattle


Proceedings available NOW from CPSR!!

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Earlier this year -- while a typical Seattle rainstorm raged -- nearly 
400 computer professionals, librarians, journalists, government 
officials, business people, and community activists gathered face-to-
face to consider an increasingly tempestuous issue: How do 
cyberspace events, policies, and use affect what happens in the 
communities in which people live?

Cyberspace with its vast physical, financial, as well as emotional 
investment, represents a techno-social tidal wave of historic 
momentum.  How much of what we hear is realistic?  How much is 
hype? What opportunities -- and what challenges -- does the 
medium offer? And, most especially, how does it affect community, 
what Matthew Dumont has called the "gossamer network of 
mutual responsibilities."

The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility "Community 
Space and Cyberspace: What's the Connection" conference asked a 
multitude of pointed questions like "What is *work* in cyberspace?  
How can we build up -- or tear down -- our existing non-electronic 
civic networks?  Is cyberspace an agora for rich and informed 
dialogue or is it an infinite echo chamber for monologists?

CPSR has gathered papers from the panelists and workshop 
conveners into a trenchant collection of critical ideas as well as 
pragmatic projects to help carry on the important work of inventing 
an informed and humanistic future.

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the conference's on-line resource bank.  We encourage everybody -- 
whether you attended the conference or not -- to read the 
proceedings, contribute to the resource bank, and follow up on any 
of these ideas in your communities.

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Features articles and short pieces by

   Jamie McClelland, LIbraries for the Future
   Peter van den Besselaar, Digitale Stad (Amsterdam)
   Lodis Rhodes, LBJ School, Univ of Texas
   Bart Decrem, Plugged In
   Amy Bruckman, MIT Media Lab
   Steve Cisler, Apple
   Beth Fraser, Univ of Washington
   Madeline Gonzalez, Association For Community Networking
   Amy Borgstrom, ACENet
   Gary Chapman, 21st Century Project, LBJ School, Univ of Texas, 
   David Hakken, State University of NY
   Carolyn Lukensmeyer, America Speaks
   Richard Sclove, Loka Institute
   Ron Cole, Oregon Graudate Institute of Science and Technology
   Rusel Di Maria, DeMaria Studios
   Alex Uttermann, DeMaria Studios
   Doug Schuler, Seattle Community Network, Computer Professionals
      for Social Responsibility

   Plus 30+ workshop descriptions and a *collaborative* bibliography!

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