Communication technologies often develop according to economic, industrial, or technical imperatives. Drawing on her research in how communities use and interact with communication technologies, Lana Rakow argues for the value of public input at the community level. In this talk she addresses current trends in and the future of community direction of communication technology.

Sponsored by: Institute of Communications Research

In conjunction with: Department of Anthropology, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Journalism, Department of Speech Communication, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities , Office of Organizational Research, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women's Studies Program