New Museum Theater, New York will discuss 'Networked Equality: Technology and Access' on Sat, May 30, 2009, at 3:00 PM.
Networked Equality is a conversation about the promises and limitations of technology, at home and abroad, with Ethan Zuckerman and Farai Chideya. To what extent is the Internet truly "global"?
What steps can be taken to ensure those who do not speak English will have equal access to the Internet's information? In the United States, how does class structure one's relationship to the Internet? How does unfamiliarity with the Internet disadvantage individuals in today's society?
Farai Chideya is an award-winning author and journalist. From 2006 to early 2009, she hosted NPR’s News and Notes, a daily national program about African-American and African diaspora issues.
She has written three nonfiction books, Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters, The Color of Our Future, and Don’t Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans. She founded PopandPolitics.com in 1995 and her novel Kiss the Sky will be published in May 2009.
Ethan Zuckerman, an early partner in the Web company Tripod and a co-founder of the nonprofit organization GeekCorps, is now a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He leads a team that is building GlobalVoices, a group of bloggers located around the world who are bridging cultural and linguistic differences through their weblogs. -- www.newmuseum.org
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