"Democratic participation in Time of Crisis"...

En Italie, on s'occupe de l'Europe... Mais qui exactement?... (Billet du 7/4/2013)

Quelques exemples...

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Max Weber Lecture Archon Fung , Harvard University "Viral Engagement: Fast, Cheap, and Broad, but Good for Democracy?"
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Date/TimeWednesday 17 April 2013 17:00 - 18:30
LocationConference Room, Villa la FonteAffiliationMax Weber ProgrammeTypeLectureDescriptionProf. Archon Fung
In 2011 and 2012, several high profile campaigns spread with unexpected speed and potency. These "viral engagements” include the mobilization that scuttled the Stop Online Piracy Act, popular protest against the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood, 100 million views of KONY 2012 video on YouTube and its subsequent criticism and defense, and on-line activism around the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. This paper examines three aspects of these viral campaigns as form of political engagement. First, is there a common structure of mobilization and spread? Some have argued that these viral campaigns synthesize conventional social and political networks but amplify the messages that spread through those networks through the speed of digital communication. Second, what are the potential contributions of this fast, cheap, and thin mode of engagement to democracy? We examine the implications of viral engagement for four critical democratic values: inclusion, public deliberation, political equality, and civic education.
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Register for this Event ContactSusan Garvin (EUI) - Send a mail
SpeakerProfessor Archon Fung (Harvard University)

http://www.eui.eu/SeminarsAndEvents/Index.aspx?eventid=82110


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Democratic Participation in Times of Crisis - Joint conference organised by NYU-Florence/NYU Liberal Studies and the Max Weber Programme, EUI
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Date/TimeWednesday 10 April 2013 09:00 - 19:00
LocationConference Room, Villa la FonteAffiliationMax Weber ProgrammeTypeConferenceDescriptionTuesday 9 April at Villa la Pietra (NYU) and Wednesday 10 April at Villa la Fonte (MWP) .
Description
Voter ID laws and a creaking Electoral College in the United States, street protests against a democratic deficit in Brussels, Rome and Athens, increasingly noisy praise for authoritarian capitalism in Singapore and Beijing / the contemporary political world is confronted with the nature and limits of democratic representation. The La Pietra Dialogues at NYU-Florence have recently regularly probed these issues, with distinguished scholars leading sessions on dissent, the euro crisis and the US elections. The Max Weber Programme at the EUI, meanwhile, is home to post-doctoral scholars from around the globe and across four disciplines. Their research this year is concerned with judicial independence, migrant labor rights, trans-national social movements and constitutional law, to name just a few areas that bear on the question of democratic representation.
This multi-disciplinary conference, co-sponsored by the La Pietra Dialogues and the Max Weber Programme, brings together invited senior scholars, Max Weber Fellows and the NYU-Florence community, in a joint La Pietra Dialogues-Max Weber Programme conversation. The conference will focus on how political and philosophical theories of democratic representation inform empirical social scientific research. For example, what can recent theories of global justice and democracy offer a political-scientist who researches Internet campaign fund-raising? What is a reasonable minimum condition for a government to be classified as 'democratic’ or 'representative’ of its citizens, and how can the social sciences help to answer this question with respect to any given state? Finally, how do such debates fit into contemporary political situations and scholarly practice?
These and other questions will be addressed via six panels, in each of which a senior invited guest and a Max Weber Fellow will give papers that enter into theoretical-empirical dialogue on a specific aspect of our broader rubric.

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Register for this Event ContactSimon Jackson (EUI) - Send a mail
OrganisersSimon Jackson (EUI)
Brendan Hogan (NYU Florence)
SpeakersProf. Philippe C. Schmitter
Prof. Donatella Della Porta (EUI)
Prof. Joshua Tucker (New York University)
Emeritus Professor Alessandro Pizzorno (EUI)
Daniel Viehoff (University of Sheffield

http://www.eui.eu/SeminarsAndEvents/Index.aspx?eventid=64934


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Windows Into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology
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Date/TimeMonday 22 April 2013 09:00 - 18:00
Tuesday 23 April 2013 09:00 - 18:00
LocationSeminar Room 3, Badia FiesolanaAffiliationDepartment of Political and Social SciencesTypeWorkshopDescriptionGary Marx
This workshop will be based on my forthcoming book of the same title. The study is an inquiry into the social, political, cultural and ethical aspects of the new surveillance (articles at www.garymarx.net are illustrative of my approach --several are listed below). The emphasis is on a conceptual framework dealing with structures, processes, cultural meanings and experiences that can accommodate and help explain the variation in surveillance tools --whether they involve video, biometry, sensors, RFID chips, GPS, social media and big data sets to mention only a few. My goals are normative, as well as social scientific, as I seek frameworks for judging and evaluating public policy.

I will of course draw examples from the policing of protest and law enforcement more broadly, but also from other areas such as work, consumption, school, government. I am also concerned with comparative international questions and the correlates and consequences of technological forms of surveillance which break traditional borders, as well as creating new ones
ContactMaureen Lechleitner (EUI) - Send a mail
SpeakerProf. Gary Marx (MIT)
LinksChildren as Subjects and Agents of Surveillance
Your Papers Please
Privacy is not quite like the weather

http://www.eui.eu/SeminarsAndEvents/Index.aspx?eventid=89709

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