[p2p-research] Fwd: "Institute for Distributed Creativity" sent you a message on Facebook...

Sat Feb 16 06:01:43 CET 2008

I don't mind talking about the experience of 'advocating' p2p through the
Foundation, and the issues around using the various tools so far, as I
usually try to have meta-reflection about what I/we have been doing, I think
that could eventually be an interesting conversation,

Michel

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Paul B. Hartzog <paulbhartzog at gmail.com>
wrote:

> anyone interested in pairing up to do one of these?
> -p
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>  The Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series invites submissions for its
> upcoming volume on "Situated Advocacy."
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>  Advocacy is the act of arguing on behalf of a particular issue, idea
> or person, and addresses issues including self-advocacy, environmental
> protection, the rights of women, youth and minorities, social justice,
> the re-structured digital divide and political reform. How have
> Situated Technologies been—or might be—mobilized toward changing
> and/or influencing social or political policies, practices, and
> beliefs? What new forms of advocacy are enabled by contemporary
> location-based or context-aware media and information systems? How
> might they lend tactical support to the process of managing
> information flows and disseminating strategic knowledge that
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