Monday, November 14, 2011 6-8 PM
Reading Area Community College
Schmidt Training and Technology Center
Join us for a conversation led by faculty from all five Berks County colleges and universities. The much prized democratic deliberation that contributes to the West's sense of self has ancient roots in a concept familiar to twenty-first century minds: the marketplace of ideas. Our culture's political and academic institutions emerged from the agora, the communal space of ancient Greece that melded political and commercial activity. Therein goods -- both physical and mental -- were exchanged. Though this marketplace endures as a critical cultural concept, the medium of that civic discourse has changed radically, especially in the last five years. Today's ideas are exchanged on mobile devices via social media with a speed and democratic equality unimaginable for the minds meeting in the ancient agora... the medieval tavern... the eighteenth-century coffee house.
Moderated by Jose-Alby Fabiani, Technology and Systems Librarian, RACC
Free and open to the public.
