Professor William H. Dutton
Senior Fellow, Advisory Board Member
Bill Dutton was the OII’s Founding Director, a Fellow of Balliol College and the first Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University.
Recorded:
18 Sep 2009
18 Sep 2009
Speakers:
With Professor William H. Dutton, Iain Dale, Cory Doctorow, Jonathan Ford, Professor Ben Goldacre, Simon Hampton, Dr David Levy, Cameron Neylon, Stefan Niggemeier, Andrew Rasiej, Felix Reed-Tsochas, Richard Sambrook, Dave Sifry and Bill Thompson
With Professor William H. Dutton, Iain Dale, Cory Doctorow, Jonathan Ford, Professor Ben Goldacre, Simon Hampton, Dr David Levy, Cameron Neylon, Stefan Niggemeier, Andrew Rasiej, Felix Reed-Tsochas, Richard Sambrook, Dave Sifry and Bill Thompson
Filming venue:
Said Business School, Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HP
With corporations, governments, newspapers and universities embracing blogs and Twitter feeds as key elements in their communication strategies, social media have finally come of age. Yet research shows that the landscape of social media use and impact is a complex one, quite unlike the simple depiction of ubiquitous use and democratisation of content production that was widely heralded with the advent of Blogger ten years ago.
This conference will look back at the evolution of blogs and other social media to give a nuanced understanding of the ways in which such tools have or have not made a difference at the social, political or economic level.
Looking to the future, speakers from industry, media and academia will also look forwards to identify the trends and developments which will most likely shape our experience of these technologies in the next ten years.
Plenary Sessions
- From weblogs to Twitter: how did we get to where we are today and what are the main impacts to date?
- Social media, so what? Assessing the impact of blogging and social media
- Blogging at 20: The future of blogs and social media
Parallel Sessions
- Breaking news: the changing relationship between blogs and mainstream media
- Making science public: data-sharing, dissemination and the public engagement with science
- The growth of the corporate blog
- Parties, campaigns and representation: the political impact of blogs and social media
This Convention is organised in collaboration with the Said Business School.
Speakers
Iain Dale
Author of Iain Dale's Diary
Cory Doctorow
Blogger, journalist, and science fiction author
Jonathan Ford
Editor, Reuters Commentary
Professor Ben Goldacre
DIRECTOR OF BENNETT INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED DATA SCIENCE, Nuffield College
Ben is a doctor, academic, writer, and broadcaster. He trained in medicine at Oxford and UCL, in psychiatry at the Maudsley, and in epidemiology at LSHTM.
Simon Hampton
Director of European Public Policy, Google
Dr David Levy
Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Cameron Neylon
Author, Science in the Open blog
Stefan Niggemeier
Founder, BILDblog
Andrew Rasiej
Founder, Personal Democracy Forum
Felix Reed-Tsochas
James Martin Institute and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Richard Sambrook
Director, BBC Global News Division
Dave Sifry
Chairman and Founder, Technorati
Bill Thompson
Technology critic and commentator, author of BillBoard, BBC News