{"id":52444,"date":"2013-11-14T11:22:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T11:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=52444"},"modified":"2013-11-14T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T15:28:04","slug":"participation-politics-power-can-safeguard-womens-online-engagement-democratic-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=52444","title":{"rendered":"19 November &#8211; Participation, Politics and Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/63980838_beard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-52480\" alt=\"_63980838_beard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/63980838_beard-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/63980838_beard-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/63980838_beard-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/63980838_beard.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Speakers<\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor Mary Beard \u2013 Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge<br \/>\nCaroline Dinenage MP \u2013 Conservative<br \/>\nChris Bryant MP \u2013 Labour<br \/>\nHelen Lewis \u2013 Deputy Editor, New Statesman<br \/>\nPadraig Reidy \u2013 News Editor, Index on Censorship<br \/>\nChair: Jackie Ashley \u2013 Journalist and broadcaster<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where and When<\/strong><br \/>\n19:30 \u2013 21:00, Tuesday 19 November, 2013<br \/>\nAttlee Suite, Portcullis House, London SW1A 2LW<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/participation-politics-and-power-how-can-we-safeguard-womens-online-engagement-with-the-democratic-tickets-8389155189?aff=es2&amp;rank=1&amp;sid=076dfc6e4d2011e382f9123139057c14\">CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The way we engage in political discourse has undoubtedly changed with the advent of a more fluid online social experience. Online forums, blogs, social media and even gaming are continuing to shape how we interact with each other, but more importantly, how we connect with the institutions that represent us in the democratic process. But as political discourse is absorbed within a wider, less streamline online conversation, how can we ensure that the voices of less represented groups are preserved?<\/p>\n<p>Women in public life have faced an increasingly virulent form of online abuse in pursuit of legitimate social and political goals, causing their voices to be sidelined or, worse still, lost. If digital media continue to dominate our interactions and conversations, how can we safeguard women\u2019s online engagement with the democratic process? And what will this mean for how we view the Internet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers Professor Mary Beard \u2013 Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge Caroline Dinenage MP \u2013 Conservative Chris Bryant MP \u2013 Labour Helen Lewis \u2013 Deputy Editor, New Statesman Padraig Reidy \u2013 News Editor, Index on Censorship Chair: Jackie Ashley \u2013 Journalist and broadcaster Where and When 19:30 \u2013 21:00, Tuesday 19 November, 2013 Attlee Suite, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52481,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52444\/revisions\/52481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}