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When	Wednesday, May 14, 2008: 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM Thursday, May 15, 2008: 8:15 AM - 3:15 PM
Where:	Friend Center, Convocation Room Princeton University

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The Internet—whose greatest promise is its ability to distribute and manipulate information—is transforming the news media. What’s on offer, how it gets made, and how end users relate to it are all in flux. New tools and services allow people to be better informed and more instantly up to date than ever before, opening the door to an enhanced public life. But the same factors that make these developments possible are also undermining the institutional rationale and economic viability of traditional news outlets, leaving profound uncertainty about how the possibilities will play out.

Agenda

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

9:30 - 10:45	Registration
10:45 - 11:00	Welcoming Remarks
11:00 - 12:00	Keynote talk by Paul Starr
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch, Convocation Room
1:30 - 3:00	Panel 1: The People Formerly Known as the Audience
3:00 - 3:30	Break
3:30 - 5:00	Panel 2: Economics of News
5:00 - 6:00	Reception

Thursday, May 15, 2008

8:15 - 9:30	Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30	Featured talk by David Robinson - Title: Attention, Distraction, and Information Glut
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 12:30	Panel 3: Data Mining, Interactivity and Visualization
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch, Convocation Room
1:30 - 3:00	Panel 4: The Medium’s New Message
3:00 - 3:15	Closing Remarks

Panels

Panel 1: The People Formerly Known as the Audience:

How effectively can users collectively create and filter the stream of news information? How much of journalism can or will be “devolved” from professionals to networks of amateurs? What new challenges do these collective modes of news production create? Could informal flows of information in online social networks challenge the idea of “news” as we know it?

• Dan Gillmor, Director of the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Steve Boriss, The Future of News blog
• Reihan Salam, The Atlantic

Panel 2: Economics of News:

How will technology-driven changes in advertising markets reshape the news media landscape? Can traditional, high-cost methods of newsgathering support themselves through other means? To what extent will action-guiding business intelligence and other “private journalism”, designed to create information asymmetries among news consumers, supplant or merge with globally accessible news?

• Gordon Crovitz, former publisher, The Wall Street Journal
• Mark Davis, Vice President for Strategy, The San Diego Union-Tribune
• Eric Alterman, Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

Panel 3: Data Mining, Visualization, and Interactivity:

To what extent will new tools for visualizing and artfully presenting large data sets reduce the need for human intermediaries between facts and news consumers? How can news be presented via simulation and interactive tools? What new kinds of questions can professional journalists ask and answer using digital technologies?

• Matthew Hurst, Microsoft Live Labs. Blogger at Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media
• Kevin Anderson, the Guardian
• David Blei, Princeton Department of Computer Science

Panel 4: The Medium’s New Message:

What are the effects of changing news consumption on political behavior? What does a public life populated by social media “producers” look like? How will people cope with the new information glut?

• Markus Prior, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Politics at Princeton University.
• JD Lasica, writer and consultant, co-founder and editorial director of Ourmedia.com, president of the Social Media Group.
• Ed Tenner, historian of technology and author of Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity, and Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences.

Panelists’ bios.

Other Information

Registration: Registration, which is free, carries two benefits: We’ll have a nametag waiting for you when you arrive, and — this is the important part — we’ll feed you lunch on both days. To register, please contact CITP’s program assistant, Laura Cummings-Abdo, at lcumming@princeton.edu. Include your name, affiliation and email address.

Local Directions: The Friend Center Building is located on Olden Street between Nassau and Prospect. It is on the corner of William and Olden, across the street from the E-Quad and next to the Computer Science Building. Enter the main doors of the Friend Center Building and walk down the hallway. The Convocation Room is the first room on the right. To see its exact location, go to Princeton University’s campus map, click on the drop down menu and go to the Friend Center.

Commuting Directions: Please click on the link to get commuting directions to the Friend Center.

Recommended lodging: The Nassau Inn, Ten Palmer Square, Princeton, NJ 08542 - Phone: 609.921.7500 - www.nassauinn.com.