Event: IPDI Ideas Discussion on the 2008 Spanish General Election with Rafael Rubio - Wednesday, October 15, 2008
October 10th, 2008By Julie
The IPDI Ideas Series presents
A discussion with Rafael Rubio about technology and the 2008 Spanish General Election
Join IPDI and author, consultant, and visiting professor Rafael Rubio for a discussion about the 2008 General Election in Spain. How did the campaigns use technology to persuade and mobilize voters? What trends in online politics exist across geographical boundaries? How do electoral uses of the technology differ between Spain and the United States? This discussion is strictly limited to people who RSVP to julie@ipdi.org in order to encourage as much discussion as possible with the author.
Wednesday, October 15
4:00 - 5:30pm
GSPM Library
GWU’s Media and Public Affairs Building
805 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
RSVP REQUIRED to julie@ipdi.org
About Rafael Rubio
Rafael Rubio (PhD, Law) is a Senior Lecturer of Constitutional Law at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, where he leads a research group on civil society, new technologies and democracy. At Universidad Carlos III, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Universidad de Navarra and the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, he teaches classes on politics, new media and grassroots politics in post graduate programs in Political Studies and Communications. He has lectured in various universities in Guatemala, Cuba, Colombia and México.
He is the editor of a blog about politics and new technology (ethepeople.blogspot.com), contributing editor of Politicsonline and is a frequent contributor to the online newspaper libertad digital (www.libertaddigital.com), and the Popular TV news. He is the author of several books and has published work in several anthologies. As a political consultant, (www.dogcomunicacion.com) he specializes in the application of Internet to elections and in immigrant voting. He is also a consultant for the Madrid Region Immigrant Department and has participated in several political electoral campaigns in Spain.
He has worked as a Visiting Scholar at both Georgetown and Harvard University and currently he works as a visiting scholar at George Washington University. His areas of research include new forms of political participation and the Internet in democracy, especially in participatory processes (such as elections and strengthening civil society). He has published more than twenty articles on these subjects.
Currently he serves as the President of Asociación Española Cuba en Transición (www.cubaentransicion.com) and has worked for various charitable projects with the Missionaries of Charity (Mother Theresa of Calcuta) in Spain, Cambodia, Cuba, Ethiopía, Portugal, Poland, Guatemala and México. Currently he serves as the webmaster of colaboradores.org, a community webpage for volunteering and is working in a new social network for volunteers, helprevolution.
About the IPDI Ideas Series book discussions
The Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet (IPDI) is part of the Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University. Our mission is to promote the use of the Internet and new communication technologies in politics to enhance democratic values, encourage citizen participation and improve governance, at home and abroad; in short, to “democratize democracy.”
IPDI presents a series of regular, discussion-based events that explore technology policy and emerging issues in the technology and political spheres. Previous events in the IPDI Ideas Series looked at broadband policy and discussions about new research. Each event is designed to provide an forum for conversations about the ways in which technology affects politics – and vice versa – that are accessible both online and offline. This includes brown bag lunch conversations with authors, bloggers, and journalists about major themes in the politics and technology space.
