Events

Human Rights: Content and Discontent

Net Effects on Big Brother
Are communication technologies advancing human rights or squelching dissent?

Friday, October 17, 2008

2:00 - 3:30 PM:  Panel
Faculty Lounge, Third Floor, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, 4 Huntington Street, College Avenue Campus

3:45 - 4:30 PM:  Reception
Huntington House, 184 College Avenue. Co-sponsored with the Invitational Masters Student Institute of the SCILS MCIS Program

Moderator, James E. Katz, Communication Department Chair~
Responder, John V. Pavlik, Journalism and Media Studies Department Chair,
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (SCILS)

• Dietram A. Scheufele, Professor of Life Sciences Communication and Journalism & Mass Communication, U. Wisconsin-Madison, on links between nanotechnology breakthroughs and attitudes toward privacy and national security~ nano-based surveillance devices and their possible use by governments and terrorists~ and the role of media in shaping public policy.
• Tunji Lardner, Nigerian citizen and United Nations consultant, on how citizens use Internet and mobiles in Nigeria to promote democracy and ways in which these technologies have been abused.
• Chih-Hui Lai, communication processes area doctoral student in SCILS PhD program at Rutgers, on opinions of bloggers from Asia as to how blogs have influenced public opinion and governmental policy, prospects for self organizing networks and the political and cultural issues they raise.

The year 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This event is part of the Global Initiatives 2008-2009 programs on Human Rights: Content and Discontent series supported by the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Office of Undergraduate Education, and the Office of International Programs, School of Arts and Sciences.  http://humanrights.rutgers.edu

For a printable flyer for this event, click here.