Videos

Date: 8 June 2006
Duration: 01:09:30

Creating successful online social spaces requires attention to usability and sociability: the discussion centres on ethnographic studies from online patient support communities, and cross-cultural communication communities for young children.

Date: 6 June 2006
Duration: 00:50:35

The Internet is sort of like a town where your local crack house can put up a front window that looks just like Boots. Is this a place that anyone would want to visit, much less live in? What can we do about it?

Date: 18 May 2006
Duration: 01:29:06

In just a few decades ICTs have enabled dramatic transformations in enterprise of all kinds: except in higher education. However, this is changing fast. What course will enterprise transformation take in higher education?

Date: 28 April 2006
Duration: 00:58:39

We didn't get the Internet completely right first time: powerful social, regulatory and economic forces are now trying to shape its future in different ways. How (and why) will the Internet be different in the future? What does this mean for society?

Date: 18 April 2006
Duration: 00:53:11

The US Federal Commmunications Commission has moved swiftly to remove old rules (common carriage) and impose new ones (E911, CALEA). This talk summarises and assesses the US debate about network owners' provision of a 'prioritized Internet'.

Date: 14 March 2006
Duration: 01:37:22

The development of Web technology has been a series of socially motivated technical innovations. As much of the original vision is still unfulfilled, there is a lot to do: what are the new challenges and hopes for weblike systems on the net?

Date: 17 February 2006
Duration: 01:23:18

Multiple projects in the US are using data grid technology to build preservation environments: Reagan Moore discusses the concepts used to implement data grids and maps them onto the principles used to manage preservation environments.

Date: 3 February 2006
Duration: 01:00:07

Identifying the most promising approaches for connecting multidisciplinary research efforts focused on the growing social importance of ICTs in structuring diverse aspects of public life.

Date: 2 February 2006
Duration: 01:40:01

What do constituencies outside the research field expect from information, communication and media studies? Can it meet these expectations? Under what conditions? Perspectives are provided on the intersection between research and more applied agendas.

Date: 16 December 2005
Duration: 00:59:07

A polemical commentary about the respective merits and limitations of sociological anaylsis and cultural studies as a way of understanding socio-technical change. Discussion based on his paper published in the journal iCS (8:439-458).

Date: 7 December 2005
Duration: 01:10:02

Some e-participation projects have been funded and promoted by governments - others have been initiated by grass-roots activitists and communities. What is the relationship between such projects and the distribution of political power?

Date: 7 December 2005
Duration: 01:26:08

Looking at early technology politics (Brunel, Tesla, Armstrong, von Braun) and then at software politics among some two dozen individuals and companies in the computer and Internet world - and the clash and resolution of their agendas (so far).

Date: 30 November 2005
Duration: 01:30:59

David Weinberger proposes that the most efficient and responsive way to manage digital knowledge is to create huge, distributed piles of 'leaves', each tagged with as much metadata as possible, thereby postponing the taxonomizing of the information.

Date: 28 November 2005
Duration: 01:25:56

Internet telephony, Internet TV and other applications are causing the old network service providers to lose revenue: we can foresee the severe weakening of the operators of today's Internet infrastructure. Who will then operate the Internet?

Date: 11 October 2005
Duration: 00:42:13

Discussion of key issues of children's Internet use identified by survey research. Interviews with children and parents provide high quality data to address major controversies surrounding the opportunities and risks of Internet use by children.

Date: 16 September 2005
Duration: 00:46:15

Discussion of the historical context and impact of citizen journalism on the mainstream media. What ethical issues are raised by new forms of newsgathering and publication, both for contributors and for the news organisations that use this material?

Date: 9 September 2005
Duration: 00:34:34

Keynote by Howard Schmidt at the 2005 Cybersafety Conference, focusing on the complex web of issues, assumptions and trade-offs involved in improving online safety and security at a personal, national and international level.

Date: 9 September 2005
Duration: 01:34:10

Closing notes from the 2005 Cybersafety Conference focusing on the complex web of issues, assumptions and trade-offs involved in improving online safety and security at a personal, national and international level.

Date: 9 September 2005
Duration: 00:05:42

Interview with Peter Grabosky from the 2005 Cybersafety Conference, focusing on the complex web of issues, assumptions and trade-offs involved in improving online safety and security at a personal, national and international level.

Date: 9 September 2005
Duration: 00:05:47

Interview with Jim Gamble from the 2005 Cybersafety Conference, focusing on the complex web of issues, assumptions and trade-offs involved in improving online safety and security at a personal, national and international level.