 Dr.
Richard Rogers, Director of the Govcom.org Foundation
and Head of New Media at the University of Amsterdam,
is going to speak at a symposium presented by the Sara
Fine Institute at the School of Information Sciences. This
symposium is free and open to the public: it
will take place on October 11, 2007 from 10:00 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m. in Room 403 at the SIS building.
The purpose of the talk is to discuss the consequences
of making information visible and accessible via web
issue mapping. Dr. Rogers will give an overview
of work done by the Govcom.org Foundation, including
methods, techniques, analytical tools and info-political
implications.
In addition to directing the Govcom.org Foundation
and heading New Media at the University of Amsterdam,
Dr. Rogers is also a visiting professor of Science
Studies at the University of Vienna. He may
be best well known for developing a server-side Web
crawler, co-link machine and graph visualizer called
the Issue Crawler—a tool in widening democracy
by making more information available to the public. Additionally,
Dr. Rogers has authored three books, including Information
Politics on the Web which earned the prestigious Best
Information Science Book of the Year Award in 2005
from the American Society for Information Science and
Technology (ASIST). Dr. Rogers earned his B.A.
at Cornell University and his M.S. and Ph.D. at the
University of Amsterdam. |
