Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

Lectures and seminars from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford. The OII is a leading world centre for multidisciplinary research and teaching on the social factors that are shaping the Internet, and their implications for society. Areas covered by our podcasts include: social networking, Internet regulation, safety and security online, e-government and democracy, civil society, open access, identity, e-learning, citizen journalism and new media, and the future of the Internet itself.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Urban Informatics: The Internet, locative media and mobile technology for urbanites	Marcus Foth overviews various urban informatics projects, exploring the communicative ecology of urban residents, community engagement using public history and digital storytelling, and social navigation for mobile urban information systems.	Marcus Foth	3 July, 2009
The Second Life of Urban Planning	Marcus Foth demonstrates the value of various tools and services (eg Second Life) for engaging people in novel and participatory planning exercises, and for investigating how the public interpret and understand proposed urban designs and urban planning.	Marcus Foth	3 July, 2009
If Fiber is the Medium, What is the Message? Next-Generation Content for Next-Generation Networks	By investigating price and capacity trends over the past century, Eli Noam shows that it is possible to predict the type, style, and genres of media content of a future ultra-broadband infrastructure, which allows a richer, more bit-intensive content.	Eli Noam	3 July, 2009
Negotiation and the Global Information Economy	JP Singh discusses the role played by diplomacy and negotiations in economic globalization, exploring possibilities for transformational problem-solving through multilateral diplomacy, allowing an adjustment of positions so that mutual gains will result.	JP Singh	3 July, 2009
Regulating Technologies	Roger Brownsword argues that the legal community should be concerned to contribute to debates about the implications and regulation of rapidly developing and converging technologies (eg ICTs, biotech / nanotech).	Roger Brownsword	8 May, 2009
The Changing Business of Software	Michael Cusumano focuses on how both the enterprise and consumer software businesses have been changing over the past decade, building on observations made in his 2004 book, The Business of Software.	Michael Cusumano	8 May, 2009
Trusted Computing Rants, Regrets and Research	How do we build trustworthy hardware, and how can we use that to increase the trustworthiness of broader distributed computation? Sean presents some things he's learned, some things he wishes he had done differently, and some things he'd still like to do.	Sean Smith	8 May, 2009
Trusted Computing: Questioning What You Think You Know	Eugene provokes us to question some assumptions related to computer architecture, the definitions of security, and how best to build trusted systems. Are current methods of defining security appropriate? How might we better design a system to be secured?	Eugene H. Spafford	8 May, 2009
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Online Audiences and the Paradox of Web Traffic	Using three years of daily Web traffic data, and new models adapted from financial mathematics, this talk examines large-scale variation in Web traffic.	Matthew Hindman	6 March, 2009
Facebook: The Strength of Weak Ties	Veronica Sartore interviews Dr Bernie Hogan about his research on the social networking site Facebook, differences between online and offline relationships, how personal boundaries are regulated and the strength of weak ties.	Bernie Hogan, Veronica Sartore	6 February, 2009
Through the Network (of Networks): The Fifth Estate	The Internet and web are creating a new space for networking people, information and other resources: this has the potential to become an important 'fifth estate' to support greater accountability in politics, the media and other institutional arenas.	William Dutton	12 September, 2008

Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

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