NCMR08 is up and running, and I am at the academic symposium part of the conference today.
The first panel, a discussion with the Future of American Communications Working Group (FACT), is the main reason I chose this pre-conference from the dense menu of advertised pre-conferences and other meetings. FACT is a project supported by the Media and Democracy Fund that is pulling together some top brains to present a "new vision for communication policy in America for the 21st century for the new administration that will be entering the White House in January" (Amit Schejter, Director).
Depending on how this project works out, the groups I work from will likely be pulling heavily from this project, and this is the first unveiling of the direction the project is taking.
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"To be sure, [society] cannot exist except through the individuals who serve as its substratum; it is, however, something more than a collection of individuals. A whole is not identical to the sum of its parts, even though without them it would be nothing. In the same way, by coming together in a definite structure..., men [sic] form a new entity which has its own nature and its own laws." -Emile Durkheim, A Course in Sociology
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Why do wars and revolutions happen? We do not know. We know only that to produce the one or the other men [sic] form themselves into a certain combination in which all take part; and we say that this is the nature of men [sic], that this is the law" -Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"A phase transition is a sudden, global change in behaviour arising from the interactions of many constituent particles" -Philip Ball, Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
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About Me
- Nathaniel James
- Washington, DC, United States
- In my professional life, I'm the Campaign Coordinator at the Media and Democracy Coalition. Beyond my commitment to advancing the values of justice and democracy in the media sphere through policy change and advancing community media, I have an intense interest in the social structure and process of intra and inter-organizational collaboration; social networks and social network analysis; network theory; complex systems; and emergent phenomenon. The views expressed here are my own and don't reflect the positions of any organizational entity.