Elon Law professor David Levine will feature several nationally acclaimed scholars on his radio show and podcast Hearsay Culture this spring, including USC's Manual Castells, UCLA's Christopher Kelty, New York Law School's Beth Noveck, and University if Virginia's Siva Vaidhyanathan.
Selected as one of the top five podcasts in the American Bar Association’s Blawg 100 of 2008, Hearsay Culture focuses on technology and intellectual property law issues of interest to the legal community and to broader public audiences. The radio program airs on KZSU-FM, Stanford University, with programs available for download at www.hearsayculture.com.
Schedule highlights for Spring 2010 include:
– February 3: Interview with Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication, Technology, and Society at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication, and author of Communication Power, published by Oxford University Press in 2009.
– February 10: Christopher Kelty, Associate Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, Center for Society and Genetics and the Department of Information Studies, and author of Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software, published by Duke University Press in 2008.
– February 17: Beth Noveck, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, currently serving as the deputy chief technology officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Other upcoming guests include cultural historian and media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan, associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia.
In the fall of 2009, Levine celebrated Hearsay Culture’s 100th program. The radio show and podcast continues to explore current events in technology and intellectual property law with many of the leading scholars, lawyers, and writers in these areas.
Levine joined the faculty of Elon University School of Law in the fall of 2009. He is a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Levine focuses his scholarship on the operation of intellectual property law at the intersection of technology and public life and intellectual property law’s impact on public transparency.
Click on the E-Cast link to the right of this article to visit the Hearsay Culture web site and to download recent interviews.