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Electronic Vernacular panel announcement

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Harriman)
Fri Jun 5 11:08:26 1992

Date:         Fri, 5 Jun 1992 09:43:13 CDT
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   The Getty Center for the History of Arts and the Humanities
                            presents:


                      ELECTRONIC VERNACULAR

                     a panel discussion with

                        John Perry Barlow
                              -=*=-
                         Philip Harriman
                              -=*=-
                  Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
                              -=*=-
                          Eric Raymond

                  7:30 pm, Monday, June 8, 1992
                         Free Admission

                   1210 4th St. (at Wilshire)
                    Santa Monica, California
           Metered parking is available next door in
                   Public Parking Structure 1
          (310) 458-9811 ext 7085 for more information

Computers and networks are more than fancy tools. Those who use
them--not only computer professionals and hackers, but also
ordinary users--are creating new ways of communicating, new
languages and culture, as they work and play with email, sign on
to electronic lists and bulletin boards, and meet on interactive
chat programs. The panelists will explore the language and
culture of the emerging network nations, voluntary electronic
communities in which participants constantly reinvent language,
each other, and themselves.

John Perry Barlow is co-founder of the Electronic Frontier
     Foundation, a writer, and a lyricist for the Grateful Dead.

Philip Harriman is Manager of Program Information Systems at the
     Getty Center.

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is President of the American
     Folklore Society (est 1888), Professor of Performance
     Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts,
     and a Getty Center Scholar (1991-1992).

Eric Raymond is a hacker and editor of The New Hacker's
     Dictionary.


This panel is part of the series Shifting Boundaries/Constricted
Spaces presented by the Center's Department of Visiting Scholars
and Conferences.

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