Please join students and faculty for a presentation by Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. emeritus professor of communication, University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication.  His topic, "Putting down stakes: Exploring the political economy of property and place in cyberspace."

From Dr. Gandy: "Understanding the political economy of the internet requires a comprehensive assessment of all the strategic resources that interested actors bring to bear on critical points of engagement with those institutions that identify, assign, and enforce the rights and responsibilities that define it. This presentation is focused on the use of metaphor, analogy and other rhetorical devices in several key cases in US courts that have helped to define the nature of property and place in cyberspace."

Lunch will be served.