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Quick Response: Oxford Social Media Convention 2009 #oxsmc09

By Craig | Published: September 21, 2009

(Transcript below if you can’t follow my polemical prose; and sorry but the synchronisation in this clip has a mind of its own). I attended the Oxford Social Media Convention 2009 on Friday (18 September) at the Said Business School. The theme of the Convention was ‘assessing the evolution, impact and potential of social media’; [...]

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Oxford Internet Surveys

By Craig | Published: August 12, 2009

(Another important ‘big picture’ Internet impact study from the Oxford Internet Institute). Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS) research is designed to offer detailed insights into the influence of the Internet on everyday life in Britain. Launched in 2003 by the Oxford Internet Institute, OxIS is an authoritative source of information about Internet access, use and attitudes. [...]

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Stop Internet Censorship…

By Craig | Published: July 9, 2009

An add from that wonderful crew Getup.org.au. They are waging a campaign against internet censorship in Australia.

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Oxford Internet Survey 2009 Report: The Internet in Britain

By Craig | Published: June 22, 2009

(A interesting new report from the Oxford Internet Institute) The Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, has today released the OxIS Report 2009, the latest report in a series of Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS) that cover the changing landscape of Internet access, use and attitudes in Britain. Dutton, W.H., Helsper, E.J. and Gerber, M.M. (2009) [...]

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jill/txt writing with a little help from your friends

By Craig | Published: May 27, 2009

One of the blogs I try and read regularly is by Jill Walker’s from the University of Bergen in Norway .  Jill’s research is within the ‘new media’ field and in large, offers analysis of the use of popular technologies  such as blogs, wikis, and other social software applications within the public sphere (a blog [...]

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What is technological determinism?

By Craig | Published: May 23, 2009

Technological determinism is circulated, maintained, and advanced within the pre-existing hierarchies in the world in which we live. Determinism has its own political agendas, its own rules, its own contexts and hierarchies and antagonisms to an imagined ‘other’. Determinism utilises a proprietary language and culture and although it cloaks itself in ideas of inter-disciplinary, deterministic [...]

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Private Sheriffs in Cyberspace: Jonathan Zittrain OII Event: London, 19th May 2009

By Craig | Published: May 21, 2009

On Tuesday evening I attended an Oxford Internet Institute sponsored lecture by Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Harvard Law School, Co-Founder and Faculty Director, Berkman Centre for Internet & Society (at the salubrious legal offices of Wragge and Co). Zittrain talked about regulation on-line by major Internet players such as Facebook and Apple and asserted that [...]

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