(Re)Inventing the Internet: one day workshop
The ACT Lab's one-day workshop, (Re)Inventing the Internet: Critical Case Studies, took place on Friday, February 23, 2007, in the Segal Graduate School of Business.
It featured several presentations that explored the social construction of the Internet in a variety of settings, from video games to online education, civic participation to music sharing. The theme was the shaping of the Internet by the practices of users who attempt to influence its design and impact. The Internet appears in these presentations not just as a functional device but also as a field of struggle within which a variety of social and technical factors meet, contend, and converge to produce new forms.
The workshop was co-sponsored by SFU's School of Communication and the Institute for the Humanities.