Free, Fair & Facebook
Michael Best
Date & Time: February 10, 2014, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Location: Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library
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Michael Best, an associate professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will present a free public lecture titled "Free, Fair & Facebook: Social Media & Democratic Development in South Africa." Best is also a fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Information Technologies and International Development. He is a frequent consultant to the World Bank. The session, presented by the ICT4D Consortium at Penn State is sponsored by the College of Communications, University Libraries and the Don Davis Program in Ethical Leadership.
