Uitnodiging presentatie Incommunicado Reader & CD-ROM

Op donderdag 3 november om 15:15 uur presenteren Geert Lovink en Soenke Zehle het boek

“Incommunicado Reader – Information technology for everybody else”

op de conferentie Fill the Gap! in Den Haag. Wij nodigen u van harte uit, daarbij aanwezig te zijn.

De Incommunicado Reader (200 pagina’s + cd-rom) bevat bijdragen van Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Bernardo Sorj en Luís Eduardo Guedes, Lisa McLaughlin, Shuddha Sengupta, Roy Pullens, Alexandre Freire, Kim van Haaster, Scott S. Robinson, Glen Tarman, Ravi Sundaram, Nnenna Nwakanma, Loe Schout, Heimo Claassen, Steve Cisler, Solomon Benjamin, Maja van der Velden, Jo van der Spek en Cecile Landman.

Bij de publicatie zit een CD-ROM met ongeveer tien uur interviewmateriaal. Experts van over de hele wereld die de Incommunicado conferentie afgelopen juni in Amsterdam bezochten, geven hun mening over de rol van nieuwe media in de rest van de wereld.

Incommunicado Reader
Information technology for everybody else
Edited by Geert Lovink and Soenke Zehle
Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures
ISBN 90-78146-01-X

Fill the Gap!-3
Donderdag 3 november van 13.00-18.30 uur
Museum voor Communicatie, Zeestraat 80-82, Den Haag
Registratie: www.wsis.nl
Toegang: gratis

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