Announcement: re:publica’08 - The critical mass

From the 2nd to the 4th of April 2008 the re:publica’08 conference, subtitled “The critical mass”, takes place in Berlin. After the huge success of the April 2007 “re:publica - Life in the net” with over 700 participants, the cultural and social aspects of web2.0 is again on the agenda.

The conference is organised by newthinking communications GmbH and Spreeblick KG, backed by the two prominent weblogs spreeblick.com and netzpolitik.org.

“When we talk about ‘Critical Mass’ today we do not mean the concept from nuclear physics” says Johnny Haeusler from spreeblick.com. “It is the number of participants in a network at which the user group begins to grow exponentially, acquiring a momentum of it’s own.” These chain reactions and the effect of social networks on daily life, on economics and politics will occupy the guest of re:publica’08 for three days.

Markus Beckedahl from netzpolitik.org adds: “In 2008 the re:publica will be significantly more international than in 2007. Interesting speakers from other countries are being invited to discuss the global aspects of social media and the digital society. We plan to again have up to 100 lectures, workshops and discussions”

With this announcement a “Call for Participation” goes out for the re:publica’08. Program suggestions and potential workshop ideas are explicitly wanted. These can be submitted as email, published in your own weblog or entered in the re:publica wiki.

re:publica’08 is supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin.

In brief:

What: “re:publica 2008 - The critical mass”
When: 02.-04. April 2008
Where: Kalkscheune in Berlin-Mitte
Who: Spreeblick and newthinking communications
Net: http://www.re-publica.de
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/republica
Mail: info add re-publica dod de

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Comments

Hi, great the conference organisation is underway.

In order to ensure next year’s conference is going to be as international as anticipated, can I just suggest to really make sure all the (important) posts and information on the website are bi-lingual? Let me know if you could do with another hand supporting you on this matter!

Also, there is a broken link to the English CfP from http://re-publica.de/info/.

Good luck and hopefully see you in Berlin in April!

tobias

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