10:00-10:45

   Collaboration and Resistance Online

Trebor Scholz, a Brooklyn-based media artist, will talk about collaborative practices online and off. Scholz created "79 Days," a web-based artwork that draws together media coverage of the wars in Kosovo and Iraq (79days.net). He is co-organizer of the conference "networks, art, & collaboration," part of the development team of the collaborative weblog Discordia, and teaches at the Department of Media Study, State University of New York at Buffalo. His work can be found at http://molodiez.org.

10:45-1:00

   Panel I: Revolutions of Knowledge, Resistance and Economies

Richard Barbrook, coordinator of the Hypermedia Research Centre of Westminster (http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/hrc.html) and coauthor of The California Ideology (a critique of the politics championed by Wired magazine), will talk about the high-tech gift economy.

Ken Wark, New School University, author of several books including Celebrities, Culture and Cyberspace, and one of the founding members of the influential mailing list Nettime (http://www.nettime.org), will talk about the tensions between emergent vectors of knowledge and existing forms of discourse, and between technological advances and existing political and economic relations.

Andy Bichlbaum, Paris-based founder of RTMark (http://www.rtmark.com/index.html), an anonymous group of anti-corporate satirists and saboteurs at the forefront of culture jamming.

Brian Holmes, cultural theorist, art critic and member of the French activist association Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Bend) and contributor to the French magazine Multitudes (http://multitudes.samizdat.net) will talk about his forthcoming book, Imaginary Maps, Global Solidarities.

2:30-4:45

   Panel II: Alternative Media Projects and Practices

Ingrid Hoofd, National University of Singapore, will address the problematic connections between new media activism and certain humanities paradigms in her paper "Problems Within and Lessons to Learn from the Indymedia Project."

Sabryna Cornish, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will address online political activism and its relation to offline realities in her paper "Moveon (http://www.moveon.org): A Case Study Of Online Advocacy."

Karen Gustafson, Radio-TV-Film Department, University of Texas at Austin, will present the findings of her content analysis and discuss the political efficacy of several web logs. Her paper is entitled "Blogs and Political Activism in the US: A Qualitative Analysis."

Christine Ogan, School of Journalism, Indiana University, and Sarah Shields, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will address the specific nature of communication that is prompted by online expressions of opinion in their paper "Letters To Sarah: Analysis of Email Responses to an Online Editorial."

4:45-6:45

   Panel III: Networked Resistance

Amy Tai, Net project manager at nonprofit watchdog group Human Rights in China (http://www.hrichina.org), and executive director Sharon Hom, will address the Internet as a tool to enlarge civil society and to advance the protection of human rights in the context of the World Summit on Information Society.

Shyam Tekwani, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, explores the globalization of local resistance movements and the expansion of virtual diasporas and their online links in his paper "Diasporas, Networks and Netwars."

Justin McGuinness, The American University of Paris, Arab media and city planning scholar, will speak on the use of the web as a vehicle to promote traditionalist Islamic values.

L. Clare Bratten, Middle Tennessee State University, will present her case study of Jean-Marie Le Pen's use of the Internet, and more broadly address the emergence of the Internet into French culture and the contest between the state and marginalized political groups to define its role. Her paper is entitled "Online Zealotry: La France de la People Virtuelle."