Mark your calendars!! Upcoming FREE event

[Doug Schuler]

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First in the "Shaping Technology" series of free public 
presentations on the social implications of technology


          Is TV a One-Way Street? 
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          New Directions in Citizen to Citizen 
          Interactive Television


On March 4th, from 7-9 pm, at Loew Hall 105 on the University of
Washington campus, the Seattle chapter of Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility (CPSR/Seattle) will launch its 1999 "Shaping
Technology" series of free public presentations.  Evelyn Messinger,
President and Director of InterAct, San Rafael, CA, will show how truly
interactive television is mobilizing democracy and authentic global
citizenship. By using new media as a creative tool, InterAct
<http://www.inter-act.net/> has been exploring what the mainstream
media has been ignoring: powerful possibilities for interactive
television.

   % Does broadcast television discourage political engagement?

   % Can TV and Internet technology, broadcast and cable, help dissolve 
     barriers between people and create opportunities for interactive 
     dialogue in the digital age?

   % What can people do to help democratize the media? 

For more than a decade, Evelyn Messinger has worked as a documentary
producer/editor for PBS, CBS News, the BBC, and French television. She
served as the first Electronic Media Director for the Soros Foundation,
and is a co-founder of Internews <http://www.internews.org>. Her work
in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe, and with independent
media in Bosnia, Palestine, Israel, Russia and the former Soviet Union,
has promoted tolerance and understanding across political and opposing
cultural borders.

To learn more about her pioneering work, and InterAct's future projects
including, Community Renewal Dialogues, 2wayTV National Proposal, and
Minnesota Interactive, join us for Evelyn MessingerUs first appearance
in the Seattle area.

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) is a public
interest organization based in Palo Alto, California.  CPSR's members
are computer professionals and other people who are concerned about the
public role in the uses and abuses of computer technology in society.
This presentation is first in CPSR/Seattle's "Shaping Technology"
series of free public presentations on the social implications of
technology.  For more information contact Doug Schuler,
<douglas at scn.org>, 206.634.0752

This event is co-sponsored by the UW Department of Technical
Communication.  Loew Hall is on the east side of the University of
Washington campus (south of and across the street from the HUB).

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