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Artemis Kirk, Geoffrey Nunberg, and University
Provost
James J. O'Donnell.
Stanford University consulting professor of linguistics
and author Geoffrey Nunberg spoke on "When Information Gets
Rotten: Changing Conceptions of the Space of Discourse" at
Georgetown on February 25. He discussed how the public understanding
of cyberspace has been troubled by specters of pornography, spam,
racist and other objectionable sites, threats to privacy, and
other evils that can be lumped together as "rotten information."
Geoff Nunberg is a senior researcher at the Center for the Study
of Lanugage and Information at Stanford. His books include The
Linguistics of Punctuation, The Future of the Book,
The Way We Talk Now, and a new collection out in May entitled
Going Nucular. Many of his writings are available at
his website.
The library thanks the Provost and the Department of Linguistics
for initiating and supporting this event.
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