| Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism |
Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. |
Judy Wajcman, John Naughton |
26 March, 2015 |
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| Combatting Corruption with Mobile Phones |
India's right to information movement demonstrated the potential to combat corruption through social audits – an exercise to share and verify public records with people. |
Vivek Srinivasan |
26 March, 2015 |
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| Africa's Information Revolution: Rhetoric and Reality |
Over the past decade there has been a phenomenal growth in mobile phone and internet usage in Africa which has attracted substantial media and academic interest. |
Padraig Carmody |
26 March, 2015 |
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| Dying for an iPhone: The Hidden Struggle of China's Workers |
An in-depth study of the most powerful electronics contractor and the lives of its 1.4 million workers. |
Jenny Chan |
26 March, 2015 |
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| Ethical Treatment of Data in New Digital Landscapes - bringing development practitioners and academics together |
How can NGOs like Oxfam come together with academics and practitioners alike to tackle emerging privacy and security challenges when it comes to effective management of data? |
Amy O'Donnell |
26 March, 2015 |
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| The (so far) grassroots success story of Farmerline, a social mobile tech enterprise for African farmers |
Alloysius Attah will discuss some of Farmerline's success factors, including its locally adapted technological solutions and strong local outreach. |
Alloysius Attah |
4 February, 2015 |
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| Learning with the crowd? New structures, new practices for knowledge, learning, and education |
This talk explores the emerging trends and forces that are radically reshaping learning and knowledge practices. |
Caroline Haythornthwaite |
9 January, 2015 |
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| Tales from the Zooniverse or, What to do with a million scientists |
Tales from the Zooniverse or, What to do with a million scientists |
Chris Lintott, Helen Margetts |
9 January, 2015 |
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| De-MOOC-ifying Online Learning |
panel examines online learning through comparing and contrasting the MOOC format with traditional online strategies. |
Wally Boston, Phil Ice, Karan Powell |
9 January, 2015 |
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| Facing the Crowd: Past, Present, and Furtures of Digital Labor |
Facing the Crowd: Past, Present, and Furtures of Digital Labor |
Mary L. Gray |
9 January, 2015 |
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| There Ain't No 'e' in PPE - How do we fill the digital skills gap at the top levels of government and politics? |
Interview with Tom Steinberg on the topics of his talk "There Ain't No 'e' in PPE - How do we fill the digital skills gap at the top levels of government and politics?" |
Tom Steinberg |
9 January, 2015 |
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| Digital strategy, social media and elections |
Interview with Matthew McGregor of Blue State Digital on the topics covered in his seminar "Digital strategy, social media and elections". |
Matthew McGregor |
9 January, 2015 |
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| OII Internet Awards 2014: Interview with Beth Noveck |
Interview with Beth Noveck on receiving an internet and society award at the OII Internet Awards 2014. |
Beth Noveck |
9 January, 2015 |
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| OII Internet Awards 2014: Interview with Laura Bates |
Interview with Laura Bates on receiving an internet and society award at the OII Internet Awards 2014. |
Laura Bates |
9 January, 2015 |
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| OII Internet Awards 2014: Interview with Dame Stephanie Shirley |
Interview with Dame Stephanie Shirley on receiving a lifetime achievement award at the OII Internet Awards 2014. |
Stephanie Shirley |
9 January, 2015 |
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| OII Internet Awards 2014: Interview with Barry Wellman |
Interview with Barry Wellman on receiving a lifetime achievement award at the OII Internet Awards 2014. |
Barry Wellman |
9 January, 2015 |
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| Towards an ethics of ignorance? |
The value of not knowing something illuminates some basic assumptions about knowledge and allows us to ask a series of interesting questions about how the information society will develop. |
Nicklas Lundbland |
9 July, 2014 |
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| Your Attention Please: Should human attention be treated as a scarce resource? |
Tim Wu will discuss the science of attention, the history of the attention industries, and some of the harms caused by overharvesting. He will also propose a model of attention sovereignty of importance for the future. |
Tim Wu |
9 July, 2014 |
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| Researching Life in the Digital Age: A Philosophical Analysis of Data-Intensive Biology |
This talk aims to provide a philosophical framework through which the current emphasis on data-intensive biology can be studied and understood. |
Sabina Leonelli |
14 May, 2014 |
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| What Hopes for ICT for Development? |
Tim Unwin focuses on current work at the CTO, where his own personal contributions focus especially on the use of ICTs by people with disabilities. |
Tim Unwin |
21 March, 2014 |
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| Working worlds: perspectives and problems of a tool for thinking about modern science |
Jon Agar will introduce the concept of working worlds, illustrate how they can be used to think about past and present science, and identify some problems and issues. |
Jon Agar |
10 March, 2014 |
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| Privacy in a Digital Age |
Julian Huppert discusses privacy in a digital age. |
Julian Huppert |
10 March, 2014 |
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| The Real-Time City? Big Data and Smart Urbanism |
Rob Kitchin discusses how cities are being instrumented with digital devices and infrastructure that produce ‘big data’. |
Rob Kitchin |
3 March, 2014 |
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| Thoughts Towards a History of ICT4D - And Its Future Role |
David Souter uses the history and development of ICT4D as a framework to critique ICT4D approaches and consider the relevance of ICTs and ICT4D to the post-2015 development agenda. |
David Souter |
27 February, 2014 |
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| How best to communicate with communities affected by disaster? Case Studies from Typhoon Haiyan |
This seminar will investigate how different technologies were used by CDAC Network Members in the immediate response to Typhoon Haiyan, focusing particularly on how needs assessment data was collected, shared and acted upon. |
Nicki Bailey |
27 February, 2014 |
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| "Emerging Markets" on the Internet |
Vili Lehdonvirta discusses emerging markets on the Internet. |
Vili Lehdonvirta |
12 February, 2014 |
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| How Do People Interact with Virtual Environments? |
Andrew Przybylski discusses the motivational dynamics of how people approach ICTs, social media and video games. |
Andrew Przybylski |
12 February, 2014 |
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| Learning, Education and the Internet |
Rebecca Eynon summarises key areas of her research on learning, education, and the Internet. |
Rebecca Eynon |
12 February, 2014 |
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| ePetitions |
Scott Hale discusses epetitions |
Scott Hale |
12 February, 2014 |
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| Does Social Media Use Change the Type of News We Receive? |
Jonathan Bright explores the impact of social media on news consumption. He examines how social media users choose what to share, how this varies by platform, and what the implications may be for the type of news coverage that people receive. |
Jonathan Bright |
12 February, 2014 |
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| The Online Initiative: Rethinking Public Spaces in the Digital Transition |
Luciano Floridi presents 'The Onlife Initiative', a project he chaired for the European Commission on how ICTs are modifying our relationships to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us. |
Luciano Floridi |
12 February, 2014 |
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| The Gardener, the Dentist, and the Long-Jumper: Ethics in the Age of Information |
Luciano Floridi discusses his new book, 'The Ethics of Information', and outline the nature and scope of Information Ethics. |
Luciano Floridi |
12 February, 2014 |
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| The Internet in a post-PRISM world |
Dan McQuillan examines the Internet in a post-PRISM world, and asks if its power to tackle global poverty will be lost. |
Dan McQuillan |
12 February, 2014 |
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| Crowdsourcing and Development of Activity Systems: the Case of Emergency Response |
Gregory Asmolov suggests applying the notion of activity systems and zones of proximal development, as conceptualized in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), to the field of ICT4D. |
Gregory Asmolov |
12 February, 2014 |
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| The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Implications for ICT4D Research |
Richard Heeks explores new post-2015 development agenda and its implications for ICT4D (information and communication technologies for development) research priorities. |
Richard Heeks |
12 February, 2014 |
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| Rise of the Operaters |
Discussion of Internet surveillance, parliamentary oversight of security services, the Digital Economy Act, communications data, and government data sharing. |
Mike Bracken |
17 January, 2014 |
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| A Better Internet for Kids – With or Without Politicians? |
Internet safety has been at or near the top of the political agenda in the UK for half a decade. Do the UK's children have a better internet experience compared with kids elsewhere? |
Simon Milner |
17 January, 2014 |
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| You can't solve problems by breaking the net |
Every problem we experience will have some intersection with the Internet, and will invite the same solution we’ve gotten in the fights over obscenity and copyright infringement: can’t you just break the Internet a little, so that it fixes my problem? |
Cory Doctorow |
17 January, 2014 |
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| Had Bell Invented Visualization, he would have said ... |
Visualization is a ubiquitous technology, just like telecommunication. However, unlike a telephone system, humans play an integral part inside the "box" of visualization. This poses a significant challenge in establishing a theory of visualization. |
Min Chen |
10 January, 2014 |
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| Online Labour Markets: Fruit Fly for Social Scientists, Conundrum for Policy Makers |
In recent years, a number of fully global, online labor markets have emerged. In these markets, buyers hire workers from around the world to perform tasks amenable to remote completion, such as computer programming, data entry and graphic design. This tal |
John Horton |
10 January, 2014 |
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| The Internet in Africa: A Perspective from a Practitioner |
Andile Ngcaba discusses the ability to address the challenge of the growth of Internet in Africa from multiple perspectives. |
Andile Ngcaba |
10 January, 2014 |
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| New Media, New Civics? |
Ethan Zuckerman explores contemporary anxieties about "a crisis in civics" and looks at the idea that civics is changing along with digital media to become more participatory and inclusive, but harder to understand and predict. |
Ethan Zuckerman |
10 January, 2014 |
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| Development 2.0 and beyond: Challenges for ICT4D in 2013 |
Dr Thompson addresses some of the opportunities and contradictions presented by ICT4D and considers some emerging ways in which ICT4D researchers may contribute to the field. |
Mark Thompson |
30 April, 2013 |
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| Disjunctures and Connections: Case Studies of How Techno-politics Make and Cut Networks |
In a development context, the ways in which new media objects (eg ICTs) are defined in relation to other objects, people and institutions map out new figurations of power and connection, that revalue and recombine political agency. |
Don Slater |
30 April, 2013 |
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| Humanitarian campaigns in social media: network architectures and Kony 2012 as a polymedia event |
An assessment of the optimism surrounding the opportunities that social media offer for humanitarian action, drawing on analysis of the phenomenally popular and controversial Kony 2012 campaign. |
Mirca Madianou |
30 April, 2013 |
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| ICTs, Innovation and Regulation in the Somali Territories |
A seminar exploring technology and regulation in the Somali territories of the Horn of Africa. |
Abdirashid Duale |
30 April, 2013 |
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| The Information Society Agenda: Prospects and Problems |
Discussion of dominant approaches by intergovernmental agencies to information society policy and the prospects for introducing critical perspectives that acknowledge the power relations which inform information society strategies and actions. |
Robin Mansell |
30 April, 2013 |
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| IPP 2012 (Big Data): Welcome and Plenary Panel |
Panellists discuss the opportunities and challenges posed by big data for research and public policy-making at the conference "IPP2012: Big Data: Big Challenges". |
Lance Bennett, Theo Bertram, Helen Margetts, Patrick McSharry, Victoria Nash |
2 January, 2013 |
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| IPP 2012 (Big Data) Keynote: Nigel Shadbolt |
Nigel Shadbolt discusses the opportunities and challenges posed by big data for research and public policy-making during his opening keynote of the conference "IPP2012: Big Data: Big Challenges". |
Nigel Shadbolt |
2 January, 2013 |
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| IPP 2012 (Big Data) Keynote: Duncan Watts |
Duncan Watts discusses the opportunities and challenges posed by big data for research and public policy-making during his opening keynote of the conference "IPP2012: Big Data: Big Challenges". |
Duncan Watts |
2 January, 2013 |
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| Twitter-based early warning and risk communication of the swine flu pandemic in 2009 (Knowledge Exchange Seminar) |
Patty Kostkova discusses Twitter-based early warning and risk communication of the 2009 swine flu pandemic during a seminar on quantitative methods in social media research held at the OII on 26 September 2012. |
Patty Kostkova |
2 January, 2013 |
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| Use of Twitter in UK Local Government (Knowledge Exchange Seminar) |
Panos Panagiotopoulos discusses use of Twitter in UK local government during a seminar on quantitative methods in social media research held at the OII on 26 September 2012. |
Panos Panagiotopoulos |
2 January, 2013 |
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| Space-Time as a Sampling Condition for New Social Media Research (Knowledge Exchange Seminar) |
Luke Sloan discusses space-time as a sampling condition for new social media research during a seminar on quantitative methods in social media research held at the OII on 26 September 2012. |
Luke Sloan |
2 January, 2013 |
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| Social Media Research for Policy Making (Knowledge Exchange Seminar) |
Carl Miller discusses development of effective social media research for policy making during a seminar on quantitative methods in social media research held at the OII on 26 September 2012. |
Carl Miller |
2 January, 2013 |
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| Media Uses and Gratifications: Some Features of the Approach: Response by Denis McQuail |
Denis McQuail's response to Jay G. Blumler's talk on the origins and sources of the appeal of the 'uses and gratifications' paradigm. |
Denis McQuail |
2 January, 2013 |
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| Media Uses and Gratifications: Some Features of the Approach |
In this seminar Jay G. Blumler discusses the origins and sources of the appeal of the 'uses and gratifications' paradigm. |
Jay Blumler |
2 January, 2013 |
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| The Social Economy: Unleashing Value and Productivity through Social Technologies |
Over 70 percent of companies are using social technologies in some way, however very few come anywhere close to achieving the full potential benefit. |
Drummond Bone, Michael Chui, James Manyika, Marc Ventresca |
2 January, 2013 |
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| OII Internet and Society Awards: Raspberry Pi |
Victoria Nash, talks to Pete Lomas, Founder and Trustee at Raspberry Pi, recipients of an Internet and Society Award in 2012 from OII, in recognition of their exemplary efforts in using the Internet for the public good in Britain. |
Victoria Nash, Pete Lomas |
2 January, 2013 |
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| The Life Story of a Pioneer: From Hi-tech to Philanthropy |
The OII's Founding Donor Dame Stephanie Shirley speaks about the sources of her innovation, the software house she founded back in 1962 and why she has already given away £65M to IT and autism projects. |
Stephanie Shirley |
2 January, 2013 |
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| Automated Analysis of Information and Social Networks from Social Media Data |
Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University, gives a talk for the Oxford Internet Institute. |
Anatoliy Gruzd |
6 November, 2012 |
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| The Role of Digital Humanities in a Major Natural Disaster |
Paul Millar, CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive project leader, discusses the role of digital humanities in developing an international resource to preserve the digital record of the earthquakes' impacts and the long-term process of recovery. |
Paul Millar |
19 June, 2012 |
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| Computational Perspectives on the Structure and Information Flows in Online Networks |
An increasing amount of social interaction is taking place online: analyzing this data computationally offers enormous potential to address long-standing scientific questions, and to harness and inform the design of future social computing applications. |
Jure Leskovec |
22 May, 2012 |
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| Webometrics: The Evolution of a Digital Social Science Research Field |
Mike Thelwall's Keynote talk from the OII Symposium "Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights", March 2012. |
Mike Thelwall |
28 March, 2012 |
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| Visioning Studies: A Socio-technical Approach to Designing the Future |
Diane H. Sonnenwald's Keynote talk from the OII Symposium "Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights", March 2012. |
Diane H. Sonnenwald |
28 March, 2012 |
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| Reproducibility: Gold or Fool's Gold in Digital Social Research? |
Christine Borgman's Keynote talk from the OII Symposium "Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights", March 2012. |
Christine Borgman |
28 March, 2012 |
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| Digital Social Research: An Interdisciplinary Niche or the Future of the Social Sciences? |
Peter van den Besselaar's Keynote talk from the OII Symposium "Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights", March 2012. |
Peter van den Besselaar |
28 March, 2012 |
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| Facebook Resistance? Understanding the Role of the Internet in the Arab Revolutions |
Revolutions are currently sweeping the Arab world, from Tunisia to Egypt and Libya to Bahrain. The Internet has been reported as a key factor, but we in fact know little of its role in these revolutions. |
Miriyam Aouragh, Noha Atef, Khaled Hroub, George Weyman |
12 March, 2012 |
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| Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation |
Professor Steve Woolgar introduces and discusses the main themes of the Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation conference, by reflecting on recent changes in visualisation media and considering some of the implications of these changes for research. |
Steve Woolgar |
28 February, 2012 |
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| Does the Mind have a Future? |
Baroness Greenfield discusses how Information Technology is changing the way humans think and feel. Whilst there are clear benefits, she also highlights the less desirable consequences, and suggests how best to minimise these threats. |
Susan Greenfield |
28 February, 2012 |
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| The Need for Achieving Appropriate Information Sharing and Information Protection |
David Bray describes the Information Sharing Environment, exploring post-9/11 information sharing in the United States, and the efforts being made towards information sharing and national security. |
David Bray |
28 February, 2012 |
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| Innovations and Journalism: Finally Together? |
Turo Uskali argues that, thanks to the Internet, there has never been a better time for innovative journalism and innovations in journalism. |
Turo Uskali |
28 February, 2012 |
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| Scammers on Online Dating Sites |
Monica Whitty discusses her recent work on dating scams, which has focused on attempting to identify a typology of victims, recognizing the techniques used by scammers, and also the psychological impact of the scams themselves. |
Monica Whitty, Bernie Hogan |
28 February, 2012 |
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| Presentation and Perception on Online Dating Sites |
Joseph Walther describes the hyperpersonal model and its relevance to the study of online dating. 'Idealisation' of perception and presentation online can facilitate the selection process, but may have unforseen consequences when people eventually meet. |
Joseph Walther, Nicole Ellison |
28 February, 2012 |
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| Partner Compatibility and Online Dating Sites |
Erina Lee discusses the importance of similarity between partners in terms of long-term relationship satisfaction. She discusses some compatibility dimensions that have been considered by eHarmony, as well as future directions for research. |
Bernie Hogan, Erina Lee |
28 February, 2012 |
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| Information Technologies and Marginalization in African Market Economies |
Laura Mann summarises her lecture on information technologies and marginalization in African market economies, part of the OII's Society and the Internet Lecture Series. |
Laura Mann |
28 February, 2012 |
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| Next Generation Internet Users: Digital Divides, Choices, and Inequalities |
Grant Blank summarises his lecture on how a new pattern of Internet access is developing through the use of a growing variety of devices than enable increasing mobility: these people are "Next Generation Internet Users". |
Grant Blank |
28 February, 2012 |
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| What Will A Companionable Computational Agent Be Like? (Lovelace Lecture 2010) |
Yorick Wilks explores the state of the art in modelling realistic conversation with computers over the last 40 years, and asks what we would want in a conversational agent (or 'Companion') designed for a long-term relationship with a user. |
Yorick Wilks |
20 July, 2010 |
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| Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game: Internet Games, Social Inequality and Racist Talk as Griefing |
This talk recaps the history of racist griefing online and link the current crisis in racial discourse in the US with this practice, exploring the implications for digital games as a transnational public sphere. |
Lisa Nakamura |
20 July, 2010 |
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| The Internet Turns 40: Midlife Crisis or Grand Challenge for Computer-Mediated Communication? |
This talk discusses research being undertaken at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago and its consequences for future forms of computer-mediated communication and for the Internet. |
Steve Jones |
18 May, 2010 |
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| Authentic Assessment in the era of Social Media: ideas and applications from Internet Communications |
The emergence of Web 2.0-enabled social media online provides a new opportunity to develop assessments that match with, and draw upon students' engagement with online knowledge networking, creating new possibilities for 'authenticity' in assessment. |
Matthew Allen |
18 May, 2010 |
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| Delete! |
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger looks at the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. |
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Helen Margetts |
10 May, 2010 |
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| The Global Information Technology Reports: Lessons in Technology, Development and Competitiveness |
Professor Soumitra Dutta discusses the Global Information Technology Reports: the world's most comprehensive and authoritative international assessment of the impact of ICTs on the development process and the competitiveness of nations. |
Soumitra Dutta |
10 May, 2010 |
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| Giving in the Digital World |
For charitable organizations and initiatives, the Internet provides the opportunity to reach more people in more direct and personal ways. Are they grasping this opportunity? |
Lucy Bernholz |
30 April, 2010 |
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| We are the Web: The future of the social machine |
The Web 2.0 world is commonplace but the promise of massive scale human computing has barely been exploited. This seminar explores the potential, challenges, and promises for next-generation technologies that can empower humanity to address key problems. |
Jim Hendler |
30 April, 2010 |
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| Relationships and the Internet |
This forum looks at the state of the art of academic research on relationships and the Internet and how this research informs research on the social aspects of the Internet in general, such as issues of trust and identity. |
William Dutton, Nicole Ellison, Bernie Hogan, Joseph B. Walther, Barry Wellman, Monica Whitty |
8 March, 2010 |
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| Those Golden Eggs Come From Somewhere: Internet Regulation at a Crossroads |
A discussion of how largely well-intentioned political and legal reactions to the highest-profile risks of ICT creates a danger of perhaps killing the goose that is giving us golden eggs of innovation, decentralization, and personal empowerment. |
Michael Froomkin |
8 March, 2010 |
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| When the Audience Clicks: Buying Attention in the Digital Age |
Discussion of media buying and the attention-creation industry - showing how the fixation on audiences' click-like behaviour is a disruptive institutional force, and how buyers' new approaches to attention are creating new forms of social discrimination. |
Joseph Turow |
8 March, 2010 |
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| Net Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis |
A discussion of net neutrality regulation in the context of a two-sided market model. |
Nicholas Economides |
8 March, 2010 |
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| Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The Criminalization of Sharing |
Examining technical, legal and cultural strategies by the recording industry to persuade people that file-sharing is impossible, immoral, un-cool or dangerous, and the failure of these strategies. Alternative business models are discussed. |
Matthew David |
8 March, 2010 |
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| National Broadband Policies: Perspectives from the US and Britain |
Robert Hahn discusses his recent paper responding to the US Federal Communications Commission's request for guidance in designing a national US broadband plan. |
Robert Hahn |
13 November, 2009 |
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| From Weblogs to Twitter: How Did We Get Where We Are Today and What Are the Main Impacts To Date? |
What are the most important milestones in the evolution of social media? What factors have shaped their successes and limitations? |
Kathryn Corrick, Dave Sifry, Bill Thompson, William Dutton, Nigel Shadbolt |
13 November, 2009 |
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| Using the Web to do Social Science |
Duncan Watts discusses how the Internet is beginning to lift a long-time constraint of social science research on emergent collective behaviour: the difficulty of measuring interactions between people, at scale, over time, while also observing behaviour. |
Duncan Watts |
9 November, 2009 |
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| The crisis of global capitalism: towards a new economic culture? |
Manuel Castells draws on arguments from his book Communication Power in discussing the structural causes and implications of the 2008 economic crisis, and in claiming that we are moving, without much understanding, towards a new form of global capitalism. |
Manuel Castells |
9 November, 2009 |
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| The Growth of the Corporate Blog: 'Letting go' of Information Control or Maintaining the Official Line? |
What do companies expect to gain from maintaining an online 'social media' presence? What are the implications of these trends for the development of traditional public relations strategies and business journalism? |
Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb, Kara Swisher, Simon Hampton, Mark Rogers |
9 November, 2009 |
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| Blogging at 20? The Future and Potential of Social Media |
If social media are the defining advance of Web 2.0, whereby the network-as-platform enabled users not just to download content but to create it, tag it and share it ... what will the next decade hold? Will we continue to Tweet? |
William Dutton, Nigel Shadbolt, Dave Sifry, Richard Allan, Kara Swisher |
9 November, 2009 |
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| Internet Governance and Regulation: The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It |
What lies around the corner for the Internet .. and how do we avoid it? How can we study and affect the future of the Internet using the distributed power of the network itself? This is Jonathan Zittrain's inaugural lecture at the University of Oxford. |
Jonathan Zittrain |
9 October, 2009 |
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| Breaking News: The Changing Relationship Between Blogs and Mainstream Media |
Among the traditional media, blogs and other contributions to citizen journalism have for a long time been regarded as posing a significant threat to 'quality' news reporting ... is this a valid view? What (if anything) can social media offer? |
David Levy, Richard Sambrook, John Kelly, Jonathan Ford |
7 October, 2009 |
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| Parties, Campaigns and Representation: The Political Impact of Blogs and Social Media |
Are social media tools likely to prove effective in engaging any voters except those who are already interested in politics? Is their apparent 'democratisation' of traditional party structures to be believed? |
Helen Margetts, Iain Dale, Andrew Rasiej, Matthew McGregor |
7 October, 2009 |
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| Social Media, So What? Assessing the Impact of Blogs and Social Media |
Can Web 2.0 tools (eg blogs, social networking and wikis) enhance our democratic freedoms? Or can we dismiss the socially egalitarian and politically democratic potential of these social media? Have any significant social impacts been ignored so far? |
Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Stefan Niggemeier, Evgeny Morozov, Richard Allan |
7 October, 2009 |
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| Making Science Public: Data-sharing, Dissemination and Public Engagement with Science |
How have social media changed the nature of the scientific debate among scientists? Are they challenging the supremacy of editors, reviewers and science communicators? How have they impacted on engagement with the public understanding of science? |
Felix Reed-Tsochas, Maxine Clarke, Ben Goldacre, Cameron Neylon |
7 October, 2009 |
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