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Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Charter 88 and the Constitutional Reform Movement Twenty Years On; discussion

Second part of a Panel discussion held at Portculis House, Westminster, discussing the central strengths and achievements of the Constitutional Reform with questions and comments from the audience.
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Charter 88 and the Constitutional Reform Movement Twenty Years On

First part of a Panel discussion held at Portculis House, Westminster, asking what have been the central strengths and achievements of the constitutional reform movement among other questions that look back at Charter 88.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

From Weblogs to Twitter: How Did We Get Where We Are Today and What Are the Main Impacts To Date?

What are the most important milestones in the evolution of social media? What factors have shaped their successes and limitations?
Entrepreneurship

Parties, Campaigns and Representation: The Political Impact of Blogs and Social Media

Panel discussion during the Oxford Social Media Convention 2009 on whether the outcome of political careers and even campaigns is increasingly dependent on the successful mastery of new communication tools including social media.
Entrepreneurship

Social Media, So What? Assessing the Impact of Blogs and Social Media

Panel discussion during the Oxford Social Media Convention 2009 on the socially egalitarian and politically democratic potential of social media. Have they lived up to the promises?
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

Parties, Campaigns and Representation: The Political Impact of Blogs and Social Media

Are social media tools likely to prove effective in engaging any voters except those who are already interested in politics? Is their apparent 'democratisation' of traditional party structures to be believed?
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

Social Media, So What? Assessing the Impact of Blogs and Social Media

Can Web 2.0 tools (eg blogs, social networking and wikis) enhance our democratic freedoms? Or can we dismiss the socially egalitarian and politically democratic potential of these social media? Have any significant social impacts been ignored so far?
Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

FLJS part 1: Human Rights

Aharon Barak talks about human rights and the limitations imposed on them that are necessary for society to preserve itself. Part 1 of the 2009 Foundation for Law Justice and Society Annual Lecture.
Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

2009 Annual Lecture: Human rights and their limitations: the role of proportionality

The former President of the Israeli Supreme Court Aharon Barak addresses the appropriate balance between security and the safeguarding of human rights.
African Studies Centre

Detective Fictions: In Pursuit of Sovereignty in the Postcolony

Professor Jean Comaroff gives the 2008 African Studies Annual Lecture on the situation in South Africa, the rise of crime and violence as well as the rise private security companies and belief in the supernatural forces of witchcraft.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

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.
Wolfson College Podcasts

The long hard road to democracy and social justice

A lecture given by retired Labour MP Tony Benn at Wolfson College, Oxford. The lecture is introduced by Prof Richard Sorabji.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

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.
Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

If the Public Would be Outraged by Their Rulings, Should Judges Care?

This Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Annual Lecture, delivered by Professor Cass Sunstein on 24 May 2007, questions the limits and legitimacy of judicial independence in the face of public opinion.

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