coe-fac: Wayne Morse Center announces Resident Scholars for 2013-14

[Shaun Haskins]

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Shaun Haskins
Executive Assistant to the Dean
College of Education
1215 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1215
haskins at uoregon.edu<mailto:haskins at uoregon.edu>
541-346-1218
Eric Priest and Colin Koopman selected

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The Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics is pleased to announce the appointment of UO faculty as Resident Scholars for 2013-14. Both scholars are active in media and internet studies, and will participate with the Wayne Morse Center in its upcoming theme of inquiryMedia and Democracy<http://waynemorsecenter.uoregon.edu/current-theme/2013-15-theme-media-and-democracy/>. >From fall 2013 through spring 2015 the center will examine evolving changes in our contemporary media as well as the dramatic cultural, political, and legal transitions influenced by new media.

Eric Priest - Resident Scholar in Law
[http://gallery.mailchimp.com/8a06b91ec7529a459284ee127/images/priest3a5cd2.jpg]Eric Priest is an assistant professor of law specializing in intellectual property law and responses to new technology. He will continue his research on Copyright, Media and Democracy in China. China is the world's fastest growing media market, but is a market evolving in the shadow of pervasive censorship.  Some Western scholars argue that copyright plays a key role in free discourse by enabling media producers to be self-sustaining and therefore freer from government largesse and control. China is now revising its copyright law. Does copyright law have the potential to promote a more independent media in China?

Priest has been at the UO since 2009. He was a resident fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, where he researched internet content filtering in Asia for the OpenNet Initiative. He also worked in China as the CEO of Noank Creative Internet Technologies.

Professor Priest will co-teach a fall 2013 class on Advanced Topics in Intellectual Property Law with 2013 Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics William "Terry" Fisher. Fisher, a noted scholar in intellectual property, is on the faculty of Harvard Law School and director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The class will examine emerging issues that are important to lawyers and practitioners of new media and will be open to both law and graduate students.

Colin Koopman - Resident Scholar in Philosophy
[http://gallery.mailchimp.com/8a06b91ec7529a459284ee127/images/Koopman_Colin_2__OFFICIAL_UO15da5a.jpg]Colin Koopman<http://pages.uoregon.edu/uophil/faculty/profiles/koopman/>, assistant professor in philosophy, is an innovative scholar specializing in political theory with a current focus on the history and future of the politics of information. He will work on his third book, titled Infopolitics:Transformations of Public and Private, focusing on how "infopolitics" is radically reshaping publicity and privacy today through socio-technologies such as the internet. Information is becoming politicized, and politics increasingly uses information in new and different ways. Koopman is writing on the philosophical meanings of these transformations.

Koopman has been at the UO since 2009. His previous books are Pragmatism as Transition and Genealogy as Critique. He received funding for a new class on "Internet, Society and Philosophy" and a Rippey Innovative Teaching Award for "Justice Matters" with Wayne Morse Senior Faculty Fellow Dan Tichenor. He was featured in A Philosopher Ponders the Public Sphere<http://cascade.uoregon.edu/spring2011/humanities/a-philosopher-ponders-the-virt/> in UO's CASCade Magazine.

Koopman will assist the Wayne Morse Center in a symposium in January 2014 on Information, Technology and Social Progess. He will also help plan the visit of Wendy Hui Kyong Chun of Brown University. Chun will visit the UO in winter 2015 as Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics.



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