Cal discussions on the living web

The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism invite all to a series of panel discussions April 29-30 at UC Berkeley on how technology and the Internet are changing American society and the human experience:

Living With The Genie: On Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery
Thursday, April 29, 7 pm (Pimentel Hall)
Howard Rheingold, Denise Caruso, Ray Kurzweil (by remote), Richard Rhodes, Mark Schapiro, and Christina Desser

Revisiting Virtual Communities: The Internet’s Impact on Society and Politics
Friday, April 30, 9 am (North Gate Library, corner of Hearst & Euclid)
Craig Newmark, Susan Mernit, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, and Mark Pincus

Disrupting the News Industry: Media Concentration and Participatory Journalism
Friday, April 30, 10:30 am (North Gate Library)
Dan Gillmor, Vin Crosbie, Neil Chase, Ken Sands, and Bob Magnuson

The panels are free and open to the public and no RSVP is necessary. For details, go to the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism site.

These panels are followed Friday afternoon by a two-day conference on the Internet's impact on China and Asia. That conference also is free and open to the public.