November 6: Christine Harold, author of OurSpace, on “Inventing Publics: Kairos and Intellectual Property Law”
Berkman Center Luncheon Series
Tuesday, November 6, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center Conference Room
23 Everett St., 2nd Floor, Cambridge MA
Guest: Christine Harold, author of OurSpace and Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Washington
Topic: “Inventing Publics: Kairos and Intellectual Property Law”
Christine Harold will explore the possibilities of the “open content” movement, specifically the licensing model offered by Creative Commons, as a productive alternative to other prevalent responses to the corporate hoarding of cultural resources. As she argues in her recent book OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture, rather than engaging commercial culture dialectically, an open content approach serves as a provocation to commercialism by amplifying certain market logics and, in doing so, undermines concepts such as “author” and “property” on which corporate power depends.
About Christine
Christine Harold, Assistant Professor, joined the faculty in 2007. She teaches courses in rhetorical criticism and theory, and cultural studies. Her research explores opportunities for meaningful political action in a world increasingly defined by the logics and rhetorics of the marketplace. Her book, OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) examines “culture jamming” as a response to corporate power. Among other venues, her work has appeared in Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and JAC. She is currently at work on a book about the intersections between product design, mass consumption, and environmental sustainability. Dr. Harold serves on the editorial boards of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Western Journal of Communication, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.
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Webcast
This event will be webcast live. Webcast viewers can join the discussion through IRC text chat or in the virtual world Second Life. If you miss the live chat, catch the podcast audio & video at MediaBerkman.
RSVP is required, as space is limited. To RSVP, please send an email to rsvp at cyber.law.harvard.edu by November 5 at 12:00PM.
