004: Management - Like a Dog With a Bone |
This episode looks at management. What’s it like working through a platform, where the principal colleague you’re working with is your smartphone? |
Robbie Warin, Francis Scaife |
6 April, 2021 |
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003: Contracts - Stand Up For Your Rights |
This episode looks at contracts and in it we hear from Yaseen Aslam, the former Uber driver who successfully took them to court over his classification as self-employed, a ruling that has implications for gig workers around the world |
Yaseen Aslam, Robbie Warin, Kelle Howson |
6 April, 2021 |
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002: Conditions - Lockdown |
In this episode we here from Aziz - a pseudonym - a ridehail driver in London. We explore what it is like working during a pandemic, serving your community and keeping the country running. |
Robbie Warin |
6 April, 2021 |
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001: Representation - The Deliveroo Strikes |
In this episode we hear from Mohaan Biswas about his first-hand experience of the Deliveroo strikes in 2016 that made headlines around the world. |
Mohaan Biswas, Robbie Warin |
6 April, 2021 |
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Combatting Corruption with Mobile Phones |
India’s right to information movement demonstrated the potential to combat corruption through social audits – an exercise to share and verify public records with people. |
Vivek Srinivasan |
26 March, 2015 |
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Africa’s Information Revolution: Rhetoric and Reality |
Over the past decade there has been a phenomenal growth in mobile phone and internet usage in Africa which has attracted substantial media and academic interest. |
Padraig Carmody |
26 March, 2015 |
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Dying for an iPhone: The Hidden Struggle of China’s Workers |
An in-depth study of the most powerful electronics contractor and the lives of its 1.4 million workers. |
Jenny Chan |
26 March, 2015 |
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Ethical Treatment of Data in New Digital Landscapes - bringing development practitioners and academics together |
How can NGOs like Oxfam come together with academics and practitioners alike to tackle emerging privacy and security challenges when it comes to effective management of data? |
Amy O'Donnell |
26 March, 2015 |
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The (so far) grassroots success story of Farmerline, a social mobile tech enterprise for African farmers |
Alloysius Attah discusses some of Farmerline's success factors, including its locally adapted technological solutions and strong local outreach |
Alloysius Attah |
4 February, 2015 |
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ICT, Civic Education and Civil Society Capacity Building in Iran |
Since Tavaana's launch in 2010, the e-learning institute has safely educated thousands of Iranians about democracy and human rights. |
Mariam Memarsadeghi |
4 February, 2015 |
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Learning with the crowd? New structures, new practices for knowledge, learning, and education |
This talk explores the emerging trends and forces that are radically reshaping learning and knowledge practices. |
Caroline Haythornthwaite |
9 January, 2015 |
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What Hopes for ICT for Development? |
Tim Unwin focuses on current work at the CTO, where his own personal contributions focus especially on the use of ICTs by people with disabilities. |
Tim Unwin |
21 March, 2014 |
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The Real-Time City? Big Data and Smart Urbanism |
Rob Kitchin discusses how cities are being instrumented with digital devices and infrastructure that produce ‘big data’. |
Rob Kitchin |
3 March, 2014 |
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New Media, New Civics? |
Ethan Zuckerman explores contemporary anxieties about "a crisis in civics" and look at the idea that civics is changing along with digital media. |
Ethan Zuckerman |
3 March, 2014 |
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Thoughts Towards a History of ICT4D - And Its Future Role |
David Souter uses the history and development of ICT4D as a framework to critique ICT4D approaches and consider the relevance of ICTs and ICT4D to the post-2015 development agenda. |
David Souter |
27 February, 2014 |
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How best to communicate with communities affected by disaster? Case Studies from Typhoon Haiyan |
This seminar will investigate how different technologies were used by CDAC Network Members in the immediate response to Typhoon Haiyan, focusing particularly on how needs assessment data was collected, shared and acted upon. |
Nicki Bailey |
27 February, 2014 |
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The Internet in a post-PRISM world |
Dan McQuillan examines the Internet in a post-PRISM world, and asks if its power to tackle global poverty will be lost. |
Dan McQuillan |
12 February, 2014 |
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Crowdsourcing and Development of Activity Systems: the Case of Emergency Response |
Gregory Asmolov suggests applying the notion of activity systems and zones of proximal development, as conceptualized in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), to the field of ICT4D. |
Gregory Asmolov |
12 February, 2014 |
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The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Implications for ICT4D Research |
Richard Heeks explores new post-2015 development agenda and its implications for ICT4D (information and communication technologies for development) research priorities. |
Richard Heeks |
12 February, 2014 |
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The Information Society Agenda: Prospects and Problems |
Discussion of dominant approaches by intergovernmental agencies to information society policy and the prospects for introducing critical perspectives that acknowledge the power relations which inform information society strategies and actions. |
Robin Mansell |
16 January, 2014 |
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ICTs, Innovation and Regulation in the Somali Territories |
A seminar exploring technology and regulation in the Somali territories of the Horn of Africa. Despite weak or non-existent government institutions, innovation has flourished with local solutions to local challenges. |
Abdirashid Duale |
16 January, 2014 |
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Humanitarian campaigns in social media: network architectures and Kony 2012 as a polymedia event |
An assessment of the optimism surrounding the opportunities that social media offer for humanitarian action, drawing on analysis of the phenomenally popular and controversial Kony 2012 campaign. |
Mirca Madianou |
16 January, 2014 |
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Disjunctures and Connections: Case Studies of How Techno-politics Make and Cut Networks |
In a development context, the ways in which new media objects (eg ICTs) are defined in relation to other objects, people and institutions map out new figurations of power and connection, that revalue and recombine political agency. |
Don Slater |
16 January, 2014 |
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Development 2.0 and beyond: Challenges for ICT4D in 2013 |
Dr Thompson addresses some of the opportunities and contradictions presented by ICT4D and considers some emerging ways in which ICT4D researchers may contribute to the field. |
Mark Thompson |
16 January, 2014 |
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An introduction to the ebook - 'Geographies of the World's Knowledge' |
Dr Mark Graham introduces 'Geographies of the World's Knowledge'. The book, available as PDF and interactive iBook, visualizes and explores contemporary patterns of commercially produced and peer-produced knowledge. |
Mark Graham |
28 March, 2012 |
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Webometrics: The Evolution of a Digital Social Science Research Field |
Mike Thelwall's Keynote talk from the OII Symposium "Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights", March 2012. |
Mike Thelwall |
28 March, 2012 |
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Visioning Studies: A Socio-technical Approach to Designing the Future |
Diane H. Sonnenwald's Keynote talk from the OII Symposium "Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights", March 2012. |
Diane H. Sonnenwald |
28 March, 2012 |
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Reproducibility: Gold or Fool's Gold in Digital Social Research? |
Christine Borgman's Keynote talk from the OII Symposium "Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights", March 2012. |
Christine Borgman |
28 March, 2012 |
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Digital Social Research: An Interdisciplinary Niche or the Future of the Social Sciences? |
Peter van den Besselaar's Keynote talk from the OII Symposium "Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights", March 2012. |
Peter van den Besselaar |
28 March, 2012 |
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Facebook Resistance? Understanding the Role of the Internet in the Arab Revolutions |
Revolutions are currently sweeping the Arab world, from Tunisia to Egypt and Libya to Bahrain. The Internet has been reported as a key factor, but we in fact know little of its role in these revolutions. |
Miriyam Aouragh, Noha Atef, Khaled Hroub, George Weyman |
12 March, 2012 |
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Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation |
Professor Steve Woolgar introduces and discusses the main themes of the Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation conference, by reflecting on recent changes in visualisation media and considering some of the implications of these changes for research. |
Steve Woolgar |
28 February, 2012 |
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Does the Mind have a Future? |
Baroness Greenfield discusses how Information Technology is changing the way humans think and feel. Whilst there are clear benefits, she also highlights the less desirable consequences, and suggests how best to minimise these threats. |
Susan Greenfield |
28 February, 2012 |
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The Need for Achieving Appropriate Information Sharing and Information Protection |
David Bray describes the Information Sharing Environment, exploring post-9/11 information sharing in the United States, and the efforts being made towards information sharing and national security. |
David Bray |
28 February, 2012 |
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Innovations and Journalism: Finally Together? |
Turo Uskali argues that, thanks to the Internet, there has never been a better time for innovative journalism and innovations in journalism. |
Turo Uskali |
28 February, 2012 |
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Scammers on Online Dating Sites |
Monica Whitty discusses her recent work on dating scams, which has focused on attempting to identify a typology of victims, recognizing the techniques used by scammers, and also the psychological impact of the scams themselves. |
Monica Whitty, Bernie Hogan |
28 February, 2012 |
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Presentation and Perception on Online Dating Sites |
Joseph Walther describes the hyperpersonal model and its relevance to the study of online dating. 'Idealisation' of perception and presentation online can facilitate the selection process, but may have unforseen consequences when people eventually meet. |
Joseph Walther, Nicole Ellison |
28 February, 2012 |
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Partner Compatibility and Online Dating Sites |
Erina Lee discusses the importance of similarity between partners in terms of long-term relationship satisfaction. She discusses some compatibility dimensions that have been considered by eHarmony, as well as future directions for research. |
Bernie Hogan, Erina Lee |
28 February, 2012 |
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Information Technologies and Marginalization in African Market Economies |
Laura Mann summarises her lecture on information technologies and marginalization in African market economies, part of the OII's Society and the Internet Lecture Series. |
Laura Mann |
28 February, 2012 |
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Next Generation Internet Users: Digital Divides, Choices, and Inequalities |
Grant Blank summarises his lecture on how a new pattern of Internet access is developing through the use of a growing variety of devices than enable increasing mobility: these people are "Next Generation Internet Users". |
Grant Blank |
28 February, 2012 |
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What Will A Companionable Computational Agent Be Like? (Lovelace Lecture 2010) |
Yorick Wilks explores the state of the art in modelling realistic conversation with computers over the last 40 years, and asks what we would want in a conversational agent (or 'Companion') designed for a long-term relationship with a user. |
Yorick Wilks |
20 July, 2010 |
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Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game: Internet Games, Social Inequality and Racist Talk as Griefing |
This talk recaps the history of racist griefing online and link the current crisis in racial discourse in the US with this practice, exploring the implications for digital games as a transnational public sphere. |
Lisa Nakamura |
20 July, 2010 |
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The Internet Turns 40: Midlife Crisis or Grand Challenge for Computer-Mediated Communication? |
This talk discusses research being undertaken at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago and its consequences for future forms of computer-mediated communication and for the Internet. |
Steve Jones |
18 May, 2010 |
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Authentic Assessment in the era of Social Media: ideas and applications from Internet Communications |
The emergence of Web 2.0-enabled social media online provides a new opportunity to develop assessments that match with, and draw upon students' engagement with online knowledge networking, creating new possibilities for 'authenticity' in assessment. |
Matthew Allen |
18 May, 2010 |
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Delete! |
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger looks at the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. |
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Helen Margetts |
10 May, 2010 |
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The Global Information Technology Reports: Lessons in Technology, Development and Competitiveness |
Professor Soumitra Dutta discusses the Global Information Technology Reports: the world's most comprehensive and authoritative international assessment of the impact of ICTs on the development process and the competitiveness of nations. |
Soumitra Dutta |
10 May, 2010 |
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Giving in the Digital World |
For charitable organizations and initiatives, the Internet provides the opportunity to reach more people in more direct and personal ways. Are they grasping this opportunity? |
Lucy Bernholz |
30 April, 2010 |
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We are the Web: The future of the social machine |
The Web 2.0 world is commonplace but the promise of massive scale human computing has barely been exploited. This seminar explores the potential, challenges, and promises for next-generation technologies that can empower humanity to address key problems. |
Jim Hendler |
30 April, 2010 |
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Interview with Andrew Goudie, Master of St Cross College |
Author of more than 30 books on global warming, Andrew Goudie charts the way forward in present crisis and explains how university research and advice can contribute to solving the problems that face our planet. |
Andrew Goudie |
28 May, 2009 |
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Interview with Frances Cairncross, Rector of Exeter College |
Frances Cairncross, Rector of Exeter College and former managing editor of The Economist talks about the role of a College in teaching and research. |
Frances Cairncross, Denis Noble |
26 May, 2009 |
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Interview with the Vice Chancellor, Dr John Hood |
Dr John Hood talks about the impact of the global recession on universities and how they themselves will contribute to the solution. He also presents his vision for the future of higher education. |
John Hood, Denis Noble |
26 May, 2009 |
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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. |
Matthew Hindman |
6 March, 2009 |
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Facebook: The Strength of Weak Ties |
Veronica Sartore interviews Dr Bernie Hogan about his research on the social networking site Facebook, differences between online and offline relationships, how personal boundaries are regulated and the strength of weak ties. |
Bernie Hogan, Veronica Sartore |
6 February, 2009 |
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