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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?
Alumni Weekend

Sleep in the Global 24/7 Society

Professor Foster gives a talk on some of the causes and consequences of sleep disruption and explores how our increasingly sleep deprived society is have unanticipated consequences for out physical and mental health.
Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

FLJS part 4: The Relationship between Political and Judicial Branches

Aharon Barak discusses how the political and judicial branches of government balance their sometimes conflicting interests with the rights of the citizens. Part 4 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.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

Urban Informatics: The Internet, locative media and mobile technology for urbanites

Marcus Foth overviews various urban informatics projects, exploring the communicative ecology of urban residents, community engagement using public history and digital storytelling, and social navigation for mobile urban information systems.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

The Second Life of Urban Planning

Marcus Foth demonstrates the value of various tools and services (eg Second Life) for engaging people in novel and participatory planning exercises, and for investigating how the public interpret and understand proposed urban designs and urban planning.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

Regulating Technologies

Roger Brownsword argues that the legal community should be concerned to contribute to debates about the implications and regulation of rapidly developing and converging technologies (eg ICTs, biotech / nanotech).
Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures

Early Childhood Poverty and Adult Attainment

Professor Greg Duncan discusses the connections between poverty and child development, and suggests social policy strategies to improve the welfare of children in poverty.
Societies in Transition

Societies in Transition: Early Metallurgy Around the World

Professor David Killick (Dept. Anthropology, University of Arizona) talks about the invention of metallurgy and the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age and what the social roles of emerging metallurgy were in societies throughout the world.
Societies in Transition

Societies in Transition: Farming in Island Southeast Asia

Professor Graeme Barker talks about the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to farming societies in the Stone Age in South East Asian Islands. He discusses the various reasons why this transition took place and the advantages it brought to people.
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.

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