SOP 3

State of Play III: Social Revolutions is the third annual State of
Play conference on the future of cyberspace convened by the Institute
for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School, the
Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and the Berkman Center
for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. This year, we focus on
social relationships in the metaverse and how to build vibrant,
flourishing, creative places.

  

Conference Schedule and Registration please visit:
http://www.nyls.edu/stateofplay

The conference will be held on October 7–8, 2005 at New
York Law School in TriBeCa, New York City. We expect this third event
to be the best yet, drawing leading voices in the online virtual world
and videogame space together with legal and social thinkers to explore
the next-generation of cyberspace and the legal implications of its
massively-multiplayer, immersive and graphical environments.

We intentionally convene both virtual world experts and technological
neophytes to deepen our shared understanding of the impact of law on
the virtual world and of the virtual world on our legal, social and
political structures.

The conference will feature panels on:

Law and journalism in virtual worlds

The law of virtual worlds

The rise of stock markets

Public space and architecture in virtual
worlds

Globalization and the metaverse

A special keynote panel will mark the tenth anniversary of cyberlaw
with a debate about governance in the new cyberspaces. A special
competition will commission the design of innovative public spaces for
virtual worlds. There will be the traditional State of Play keynote
dinner that will showcase leading virtual world technologies and their
designers, the State of the Industry breakfast, and, of course, the
Dance Dance Revolution Extravaganza, the Mini-Machinima Film Festival,
music, art, films from the new frontier, and wonderful conversation.

For more information, please contact Catherine Bracy, Berkman Center
617-495-7547 or [email protected]

Conference Schedule and Registration please visit:
http://www.nyls.edu/stateofplay

Beth Simone Noveck, Assoc. Prof.

Director, Institute for Information Law & Policy

New York Law School

[email protected]

INSTITUTE: http://www.nyls.edu/infolaw

DEMOCRACY DESIGN WORKSHOP: http://www.nyls.edu/democracy

CAIRNS BLOG: http://cairns.typepad.com



**Registration now open for State of Play III: Social Revolutions, New
York, October 7-8, 2005 at http:www.nyls.edu/stateofplay.

Video archives from State of Play I and II also available on the
site.**

  

Comments

[Richard Bartle]

1.

What do people think about the workshop format SoP is adopting this year? Personally, I'd like to go to all three workshops, and am kinda glad that I was just assigned to one so I wouldn't have to decide which one to attend.

Richard

[Gwyneth Llewelyn]

2.

I hope you forgive me the spam, but the 1st Second Life Community Convention will be held at the NYLS at the same time as the SoP - so that people may attend both events if they wish.

Unusual for this "convention" is its focus on community building in virtual worlds - and not the usual "fandom-gathering" - as well as being a convention done simultaneously both in the real world as in the virtual world. There will be two-way video communication from NYC into the virtual world of Second Life and vice-versa. So, you may attend both physically or virtually - and still participate, even to the point of putting questions to the speakers. It may be interesting to watch!