Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) 2007
The fifth Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) will be conducted and organised by the Oxford Internet Institute in partnership with The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Moving from Oxford for the second time, it will be held in the US at the Berkman Center (Cambridge, MA) from July 16-27, 2007.
Academic Programme
The 2007 Summer Doctoral Programme will maintain the high standard for rigorous intellectual interaction, inter-disciplinary exchange and novel research methods and goals, while introducing new approaches. The Cambridge edition will draw substantially upon the OII's work and faculty, integrating it with the Berkman Center's research and community, and also injecting participation by a diverse and accomplished group of colleagues and friends.
The course structure will be broadly similar to previous years' Programmes with daily research seminars and discussions led by leading academics, practitioners and entrepreneurs. All students will be asked to present their research to their peers in informal seminars. Seminars and other teaching should average approximately five hours contact time per day, leaving students with plenty of opportunity to meet informally with faculty and fellow students, work on their own research, and possibly even develop new projects.
Primary areas of inquiry include: Governance and Democracy, Technology and Learning, Technology and Innovation, and Shaping the Internet.
Selected topics and themes include: Design of research projects and different research methods; Access to knowledge and online Intellectual property; Speech and privacy on the Net; ICTs and development; Young people's and ICTs; Digital Identity; Citizen and social media; Tagging, folksonomies and metadata; Innovation; and The future of the Internet.
Download: 2007 Programme timetable (pdf)
Download: 2007 Programme readings (pdf)
Download: 2007 Student biographies (pdf)
Tutors
- Michael Best, Fellow, Berkman
- John Clippinger, Senior Fellow, Berkman
- Judith Donath, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab and Berkman Faculty Fellow
- William Dutton, Director of the OII, Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Oxford
- Rob Faris, Research Director, Berkman
- Brian Fitzgerald, Professor of Law, Queensland University of Technology
- Marcus Foth, Senior Research Fellow, QUT
- Terry Fisher, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Berkman Faculty Director
- Urs Gasser, Director of the Research Center on Information Law, University of St Gallen, Switzerland and Berkman Faculty Fellow
- Dan Gillmor, Founder, Center for Citizen Media and Berkman Research Fellow
- Lewis Hyde, Fellow, Berkman
- Karim Lakhani, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School and Berkman Faculty Fellow
- Colin Maclay, Managing Director, Berkman
- Helen Margetts, Professor of Internet & Society, OII
- John Palfrey, Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Berkman Executive Director
- Ralph Schroeder, James Martin Fellow, OII
- Doc Searls, Research Fellow, Berkman
- Wendy Seltzer, Visiting Professor of Law, Northeastern University and Berkman Fellow
- Talha Syed, Harvard Law School
- David Weinberger, Research Fellow, Berkman
- Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, OII and Berkman Faculty Co-Director
- Ethan Zuckerman, Berkman Research Fellow
Contact
Please direct enquiries to: sdp@oii.ox.ac.uk
Partners
We are grateful for the generosity of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) and all our academic partners in supporting this programme.
- Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School (co-organiser)
- Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
- Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation
- Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology
