[EL] Livestream of Stanford Conference on the Future of Political Communication

[Nate Persily]

Tomorrow, February 20, from 9 AM to 4 PM, at the Bechtel Conference Center at Stanford, we will be hosting a conference on "The Campaign of the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on the Emerging Technology of Campaign Communication, Mobilization, and
Fundraising."  
The conference, generously funded by the Democracy Fund, will feature leading technologists from Silicon Valley, political consultants, commissioners from the FEC, and academics, who will be discussing the next generation of technology in campaign
communication.  The conference schedule appears below and it will be audio streamed at the following link:
https://www.law.stanford.edu/event/2015/02/20/the-campaign-of-the-future-a-roundtable-discussion-on-the-emerging-technology-of-campaign-communication-mobiliz
 
 The Campaign of the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on the Emerging Technology of Campaign Communication, Mobilization, and Fundraising February 20, 2014
8:30-9:00
Continental Breakfast
 
9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks by Nathaniel Persily and Ben Ginsberg
 
9:15-10:45 Session I – The Future of Campaign Communication
·         How dominant will TV
advertising, and other traditional media, be in the coming campaign and when, if ever, should we expect their relative demise?
·         What tools and data will parties, candidates, and interest groups be employing in the next campaign that they
had not previously?
·         How will new technology affect the cost of campaigns?
·         In what ways are the major web portals for campaign communication similar and different from the
broadcast portals of yesteryear?
·         How does the internet, and perhaps microtargeting generally, affect the content and tone of campaign communication?
 
10:45-11:00 Break
 
11:00-12:30 Session
II – The Future of Voter Mobilization and Engagement
·         What new technologies for mobilization and engagment should we expect in the next election and in the medium
term?
·         How have new technologies affected methods of mobilizing low turnout voters and persuading ambivalent ones?
·         How have big data innovations transformed the relevant
players (both insiders and outsiders) in political campaigns?
 
12:30-1:30 Lunch
 
1:30-2:45 Session III – The Future of Campaign Fundraising
·         How will technological advances
alter the methods of campaign financing?
·         Do new technologies hold the promise of greater participation in campaign fundraising?
·         How do new technologies affect the nature and
tone of campaign fundraising appeals?
·         Do new tools allow contributors to be “smarter” in their contributions and campaigns to be more efficient in their fundraising and spending?
 
2:45-3:00
Break
 
3:00 – 4:00 Concluding Discussion: Public Policy and the Campaign of the Future
·         Do new campaign technologies present different policy challenges than their
predecessors?
·         Does the anonymous nature of internet communication present unique obstacles for disclosure?
·         How must a policy paradigm developed in the 1970s be altered to
account for the nature of a Twenty-First Century campaign?
 
 
 ----------------Nate Persily



James B. McClatchy Professor of Law

Stanford Law School

559 Nathan Abbott Way

Stanford, CA 94305-8610

(917) 570-3223

npersily at stanford.eduwww.persily.com
 
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