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Medical Anthropology: Drink me... Take me... Read me...

Mark Lawrence, Director of First Read This (an Oxford company that aims to promote patient information leaflets), discusses how following instructions makes the patient feel better.

Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

Those Golden Eggs Come From Somewhere: Internet Regulation at a Crossroads

A discussion of how largely well-intentioned political and legal reactions to the highest-profile risks of ICT creates a danger of perhaps killing the goose that is giving us golden eggs of innovation, decentralization, and personal empowerment.

When the Audience Clicks: Buying Attention in the Digital Age

Discussion of media buying and the attention-creation industry - showing how the fixation on audiences' click-like behaviour is a disruptive institutional force, and how buyers' new approaches to attention are creating new forms of social discrimination.

Complexity and Systemic Risk: Hilary Term Seminar Series 2010

Cooperation, Norms and Conflict: Towards Simulating the Foundations of Society

In order to understand social systems, it is essential to identify the circumstances under which individuals spontaneously start cooperating or developing shared behaviors, norms, and culture.

Is Tragedy still Alive?

Discussion on whether tragedy still exists in modern culture, whether in films, modern theatre or and other creative arts.

Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

Negotiating the Post-conflict State: Land Disputes in Juba, Southern Sudan

Seminar given by Naseem Badiey, DPhil candidate in Politics, University of Oxford, and Visiting Scholar in the Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley on the 15th of february 2010.

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Why people get fat: an integral approach

Mike Rayner and Stanley Uljiaszek give a talk about the causes of obesity on 7th November 2007.

Genetics of obesity, and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

Nicholas Timpson, of the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, gives a talk on Genetics of obesity, and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children on the 9th November 2009.

Networks and Obesity

Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology, Director of UBVO, University of Oxford, gives a talk on networks and obesity.

The ageing society and its implications

This Oxford at Said seminar was dedicated to the topic of Ageing. Three distinguished academics from Oxford University discuss the social, biological and ethical implications for an ageing society.

National Broadband Policies: Perspectives from the US and Britain

Robert Hahn discusses his recent paper responding to the US Federal Communications Commission's request for guidance in designing a national US broadband plan.

Using the Web to do Social Science

Duncan Watts discusses how the Internet is beginning to lift a long-time constraint of social science research on emergent collective behaviour: the difficulty of measuring interactions between people, at scale, over time, while also observing behaviour.

The crisis of global capitalism: towards a new economic culture?

Manuel Castells draws on arguments from his book Communication Power in discussing the structural causes and implications of the 2008 economic crisis, and in claiming that we are moving, without much understanding, towards a new form of global capitalism.

The Growth of the Corporate Blog: 'Letting go' of Information Control or Maintaining the Official Line?

What do companies expect to gain from maintaining an online 'social media' presence? What are the implications of these trends for the development of traditional public relations strategies and business journalism?

Blogging at 20? The Future and Potential of Social Media

If social media are the defining advance of Web 2.0, whereby the network-as-platform enabled users not just to download content but to create it, tag it and share it ... what will the next decade hold? Will we continue to Tweet?

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.

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?

Russia is Back: Jenifer Hart Memorial Lecture

Professor MacFarlane gives a talk about modern Russia; from the fall of the Berlin Wall to today; including the rise of Vladimir Putin, the conflict between Chechnya, alleged human rights violations and Russia's relationship with the rest of the world.

A Woman's place: The transformation of female power in first millennial BC Egypt

A talk assessing the role of women in ancient Egypt - looking at the changes in female religious roles in ancient Egyptian society as a barometer for wider social, cultural and political transformation.

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?

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