Metapower and Information Technologies
Internet, Business and Society:
A talk on 'Metapower and Information Technologies'
J.P. Singh, Georgetown University
Friday April 20th, 12:00-13:00 in PH18b-S-0.23
Free lunch will be served- please sign up below!
How do new information and communication technologies transform power relations and global politics? While the question is old, some exciting new responses currently emerge, and we seem to be witnessing a third wave of scholarship on the relation between power, information technology and global politics. To help usmake sense of these new theoretical and empirical developments, the research initiativeInternet, Business and Societyandthe casino 168 Public/Private Platform have invitedProfessor J.P. Singh from Georgetown University to give a talk on the concept 'metapower'.
J. P. Singh is Professor at the graduate programme in Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University. He specializes in global governance, technologyand development, specifically exploring issues of information technologies, intellectual properties, service industries, global deliberations and diplomacy, and cultural identity. J.P. Singh has authored more than 50 scholarly articles, andbooks such asInformation Technologies and Global Politics(with James N. Rosenau, 2002),Negotiation and the Global Information Economy(Cambridge 2008),The Arts of Globalization(Columbia, 2011) andUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Creating Norms in a Complex World(Routledge, 2011).
The seminar will takeplace from 12:-13:00 onFriday April 20th, 2012 at Copenhagen Business School, Porcelænshaven 18B, in the seminar room on the ground floor (S-0.23).
Free lunch will be served, butplease register in advance by emailing Simon Holm Klange:shk.ikl@cbs.dk
For other questions, please contact Mikkel Flyverbom, Associate Professor, Department ofIntercultural Communication and Management: mfl.ikl@cbs.dkor 3815 3375