Art and Activism in Digital Age II  Media art as social and
political influence by Byul Shin/ Publicness, Pervasive
Technologies and a History of Shit by Geoff Cox/ Art of Decision
by Fionnuala Conway and Linda Doyle/ Pleasure and Sacrifice:
Aesthetic Experience and Collectivist Action by Susan Elizabeth
Ryan/ Electrical, Political, Social and Cultural Resistance by
Ricardo Lobo/ Big Bird is Watching You: Art, Activism and
Technology in the Public Arena by Denitsa Petrova Chair Person: 
Bill Balaskas Byul Shin Geoff Cox Fionnuala Conway Susan
Elizabeth Ryan Ricardo Lobo Denitsa Petrova Linda Doyle  Media
art as social and political influence  Byul Shin  Recent
communication technology has encouraged public social and
political engagement allowing them to share ideas, communicate,
collaborate with each other, and sometimes act together more
easily. Artists have paid attention to the potential of
communication technologies through adopting the technology into
their artistic representations and practices not onl