“Power in the Informational State: The Social Effects of Information Policy”

Wednesday, September 26, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. - University Center Building C, Room 4400

Dr. Sandra Braman will visit Florida State University to give a guest presentation, “Power in the Informational State: The Social Effects of Information Policy.” The talk will be held on Wednesday, September 26 from 12:30 to 1:30 in Room 4400 of the University Center Building C.

Dr. Braman is Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and in 2008 will serve as the Freedom of Expression Professor at the University of Bergen in Norway. She has been doing research on the macro-level effects of digital technologies and their policy implications for over two decades, often with support from the Rockefeller, Ford, and Soros foundations. She designed and launched the first graduate program in telecommunications and information policy on the African continent, for the University of South Africa in 1997-1998.

Dr. Braman has published over seventy scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and books; served as book review editor of the Journal of Communication; is former Chair of the Communication Law & Policy Division of the International Communication Association; and sits on the editorial boards of nine scholarly journals. Recent work includes Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power (MIT Press, 2006) and the edited volumes The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Biotechnology and Communication: The Meta-Technologies of Information (Erlbaum, 2004), and Communication Researchers and Policy-Making (MIT Press, 2003).

More information about her research interests and publications can be found at: http://www.uwm.edu/~braman. For more information about this presentation, please contact Steve McDowell at 644-2276.