Skip to main content

Aspen Institute Logo

  • Publications »
  • Conference Centers »
  • Press Center »
  • Support Us »
  • Society of Fellows »
  • About the Institute
  • Events
  • Our Policy Work
  • Leadership Programs
  • Seminars
  • Our People
  • Multimedia
Explore This Program

View all programs

A

Advocacy and Exchange Program on Agent Orange »
Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program »
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs »
Aspen Strategy Group »

B

Business and Society Program »

C

Commission on No Child Left Behind »
Communications and Society Program »
Community Strategies Group »
Congressional Program »
Council of Women World Leaders »

E

Economic Opportunities Program »
Education and Society Program »
Energy and Environment Program »

G

Global Health & Development »
Global Initiative on Culture and Society »

H

Harman-Eisner Program in the Arts »
Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative »
Homeland Security Program »

I

Initiative on Financial Security »

J

Justice and Society Program »

M

Market Building Initiative »
Middle East Programs »

P

Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation (PSI) »
Program on the World Economy »

R

Realizing Rights »
Roundtable on Community Change »

Communications and Society

  • Program Home »
  • Programs by Topic »
    • Journalism »
    • Communications Policy »
    • Commerce and Technology »
    • Culture and Technology »
      • Forum on Communications and Society (FOCAS) »
        • FOCAS 2010 overview »
        • FOCAS 2009 overview »
        • FOCAS 2008 overview »
        • FOCAS 2007 overview »
          • FOCAS 2007 participants »
          • FOCAS 2007 schedule and agenda »
          • FOCAS Interactive Report »
      • Campaigns in Cyberspace »
    • Media and Politics »
    • Global Projects »
  • Programs by Date »
  • Publications »
  • About the Communications and Society Program »

Topics

Communications Policy, Media

Links

  • Visit this Program on Facebook

Tools

  • Email this Page
  • Print this Page

Share

  • Facebook
  • Digg
  • Delicious

Communications and Society Program

FOCAS 2007 overview

The 2008 Forum on Communications and Society is scheduled for August 10-12, 2008. To learn more about FOCAS 2008, visit www.aspeninstitute.org/focas.

Watch the archives of the 2007 FOCAS discussions at www.aspeninstitute.tv.  

 FOCAS 2007 included three interactive roundtables:

  • Content Issues for New and Old Media- how consumers, businesses, and governments treat issues of content at a time of rapidly changing business models
  • Media & Community Values- how media policies affect the coherence of local geographic communities
  • Media & Property Values- new approaches to intellectual property issues occasioned by the sharing generation

FOCAS 2007 keynote addresses were given by:

  • Kevin Martin- Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
  • Viviane Reding- Comissioner for Information Society, & Media- Euopean Commission

FOCAS 2007 gathered leaders and experts including:

  • Jonathan Adelstein- Federal Communications Commission
  • Madeleine Albright- The Albright Group
  • Esther Dyson- EDventure Holdings
  • Michael Eisner- The Tornante Company, former Disney CEO
  • Jordan Greenhall- DivX, Inc.
  • Arianna Huffington- The Huffington Post
  • Craig Newmark- craigslist
  • Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.- The New York Times 

Contact

The FOCAS 2007 event has passed but we are in the stages of planning FOCAS 2008. For sponsorship and participant opportunities, please contact Ms. Erin Silliman at the Communications and Society Program at 1-202-736-5818 or by email at erin.silliman@aspeninstitute.org.

Upcoming Events

Communications and Society Program

Knight Commission Anniversary Event

September 29, 2010
Washington, DC

Aspen Institute Events

Upcoming

ERP II Conference, Companies in a Competitive World

September 9, 2010 - September 12, 2010
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Young Executive Seminar

September 10, 2010 - September 12, 2010
Tokyo, Japan

Past

Central America Leadership Initiative

August 23, 2010 - August 28, 2010
Managua, Nicaragua
  • Find Us on Facebook »
  • Contact »
  • Multimedia »
  • Privacy Policy »

© 2009 Aspen Institute