Santa Clara University

Values in the Design of Information Technology Architecture - VID2008

Center for Science, Technology and Society

Graduate Student Workshop: Values In Computer Information Systems Design


         
2008 Graduate Student Workshop: Values In Computer Information Systems Design
Santa Clara University
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A public conference, the workshop’s culminating event, will feature student teams presenting  their value-centered design projects to a guest panel of scholars, researchers and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. With Keynote speaker Fred Turner, Assistant Professor Of Communication, Stanford University.
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Date: Saturday, August 16
Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Sobrato Conference Room
            
Lunch keynote: 12 noon to 1 p.m.
Keynote: 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Fred Turner, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication
Stanford University
 Location: Williman Room, Benson Center   
     
The Politics of Design in the American Counterculture
     
Though we tend to remember the '60s as an era of marching in the streets, it was also a time when many abandoned party politics and sought to design their way into new forms of community. This talk returns to that moment in the work of Buckminster Fuller, Stewart Brand, and above all, the communards of the back-to-the land movement. It explores how the '60s faith in small scale technologies, peer collaboration, and interpersonal communication shaped the fate of the communes -  and it asks what lessons that fate might offer for our own more digital time.
         
Fred Turner is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author most recently of the prize-winning book, /From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism/ (University of Chicago
Press, 2006).
        
http://fredturner.stanford.edu
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Admission is free. Advanced registration encouraged.
Edward Lucas elucas@scu.edu, 408-551-6090

Workshop Philosophy and Goals

Despite a growing body of research and scholarship dedicated both to theoretical and practical dimensions of this important subject, institutional responses have been sporadic and somewhat sparse. Several goals have motivated the design of VID workshop:

  • Deepen knowledge and understanding of the complex interplay between social, moral, political and cultural values and technology through the aggregation and study of a diverse canon of works;
  • Create opportunities for collaborations among researchers and scholars (current and future) historically separated by institutional, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries;
  • Reveal relevant literatures, approaches, and methodologies to graduate students, who might not, in the normal course of their respective programs, see them;
  • Promote the development of collegial networks among established scholars as well as students.

This workshop is made possible by: National Science Foundation

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