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Subject: OII News [2008.06.05]: News, events and webcasts for June
Dear friends and colleagues,
Doctoral candidates with a strong interest in privacy and suitable research training are invited to apply for a full doctoral studentship (2008/09 start) on the Privacy Value Networks project (closing: 12 June 2008):
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/dphil/
1. New Project on Digital Resources / Recruit
2. Events Diary
3. Online Safety for Children: Beyond Byron
4. Keen / Sanger Webcast: The Future of Knowledge
5. Blogs: noticed this week
6. JZ Book: 'Future of the Internet' .. more reviews!
7. Student Diary
In brief: On 28 May OII Professor Yorick Wilks was awarded the 2008 biennial Zampolli Prize for 'Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Language Resources and Language Technology Evaluation within Human Language Technologies' by the European Language Development Association. He delivered his prize lecture at LREC-08 in Marrakech.
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1. New Project on Digital Resources / Recruit
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Are digitised scholarly resources succeeding at reaching their intended users, or are they being missed because of a combination of poor information seeking skills among the target users, access restrictions by content providers, confusing interfaces, or any number of other barriers?
Funding agencies and project directors are starting to see the need to have tools at their disposal to better assess whether funded projects are having the desired impact. The OII has been selected as part of a competitive application process to assemble such a toolkit. The project is funded by JISC.
Digitised Resources: A Usage and Impact Study
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/project.cfm?id=51
Recruitment: We are looking for a part-time (50% FTE) Research Assistant to work on this project (closing: 10 June 2008). Grade 6: Salary £24,403 - £29,138 p.a. (pro rata)
Details and application pack:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/newpositions.cfm
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2. Events Diary
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Fri 6 June:
On the Way to Virtual Democracy? Avatar Activism in 'Second Life'
Professor Caja Thimm
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=201
Tues 10 June:
Cyberspace: Its Protocols and Public International Law
Henrik Spang-Hanssen
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=198
Thurs 12 June:
Beyond Byron: Towards a New Culture of Responsibility
Dr Tanya Byron, Prof John Palfrey, Annie Mullins
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=197
Mon 23 June:
Virtual Schooling: The evolution of new ecologies in secondary education in the 21st century
Professor Niki Davis
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=202
Tues 24 June:
Search! (held at the British Library)
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/microsites/oxis/events/
Thurs 31 July:
From Digital Photography to Fine Art Painting: The Role of Technology for the 21st Century Artist
Jeremy Sutton, artist
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=180
Thurs 11 - Sat 13 September:
Oxford e-Research Conference 2008
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/microsites/eresearch08/
Wed 24 - Thurs 25 September:
GikIII Workshop
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=199
All the Events:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/
Register:
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3. Online Safety for Children: Beyond Byron
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2008 has so far been an important year for those interested in ensuring online safety for children. In January an agreement was reached between MySpace and 50 US Attorneys General leading to the creation of an Internet Safety Technical Taskforce, as well as specific child safety improvements on the social networking site itself.
In the UK, the Byron Review, released in March has been well-received with commitments from the UK government to establish a multi-stakeholder 'Council for Child Internet Safety' and to hold an Internet Safety Summit in 2009.
In the light of these promising developments, the OII is delighted to host a public lecture with Dr Tanya Byron which will help to evaluate the response so far and compare progress in the UK with experiences from the US.
Thurs 12 June: Beyond Byron: Towards a New Culture of Responsibility
Dr Tanya Byron, Prof John Palfrey, Annie Mullins
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=197
Register: mailto:[log in to unmask]
1. Is it practical to ask popular websites to moderate all user-generated content?
2. Can schools really be expected to support whole family learning as well as e-safety education for their pupils?
3. Can we really 'future-proof' advertising regulation to take account of new and developing forms of online advertisements?
We are grateful to Vodafone and Fox Interactive Media for their support of the lecture.
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4. Keen / Sanger Webcast: The Future of Knowledge
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On 27 May 2008, Lawrence M. Sanger and Andrew Keen came to the OII to discuss issues of legitimacy, credibility, regulation and censorship on the Internet.
Is the Future of the Internet the Future of Knowledge?
http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20080527_246
Questions that came up during the discussion included:
1. What role do truth, trust and expertise have to play in the creation and dissemination of knowledge and news through the Internet? What (or who) should we believe and why?
2. Is the Internet's role in shaping knowledge creation and dissemination broadly a force for good? Doesn't participation educate? Doesn't such an array of easily accessible knowledge and information have a potentially democratising effect?
3. Should knowledge and news production by non-professionals on the Internet be limited in any way?
Lawrence M. Sanger PhD is the co-founder of Wikipedia and founder of Citizendium; Andrew Keen is a prominent critic of the Internet as a means of acquiring knowledge, and author of 'The Cult of the Amateur'.
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5. Blogs: noticed this week
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'I've got plenty of energy from my solar panels, so team has upped my work hours' ... Yes, Alejandro has found a person Twittering from Mars
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/aribo/
Tobias Escher provides a reading list for a tutorial session on 'the death of distance' for social relations
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/
Marcelo Thompson has been thinking about natural law and our perception of virtual worlds (The Extent of Fiction: Natural Law, Virtual Worlds)
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/thompson/
William Dutton has provided a list of centres for research and teaching focused on the Internet and Society
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/dutton/
The Ian Brown slideshow:
http://dooooooom.blogspot.com/
May 22: 'I just had the interesting experience of giving a presentation (at Computers, Freedom and Privacy 2008) by Skype video.'
May 23: 'SlideShare is addictive! Here is a presentation I just gave to the Oxford e-Research Centre on our e-curator project (which is coming along very nicely)'
May 30: 'Next month the OECD is holding its annual ministerial meeting in Seoul on The Future of the Internet Economy. I've been invited to speak on 'Trust in Online Communities' at the meeting.'
Find these (and all the rest) on the OII blogs aggregator:
http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/
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6. JZ Book: 'Future of the Internet' .. more reviews!
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The reviews of Professor Jonathan Zittrain's book 'The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It' just keep on coming:
The Times Literary Supplement (21 May): Net libertarianism
'Zittrain, by contrast, is a Romantic about the "Live Free or Die" ethos of original internet culture, while doubling as a superb technical master of its legal and manufacturing history. He is concerned that regulators, manufacturers and frightened citizens may converge to snatch technological freedom from internet culture.'
The Telegraph (24 May): The problem with the net: it's you, reader
'Fast losing patience with a network practically designed to foster spam, scams, viruses and other threats to online security and privacy, Zittrain argues the new mainstream of digital consumers stands on the verge of a fateful market move: a mass defection from the free-wheeling, general-purpose PCs that sustain the web as we know it to a set of rigidly networked media "appliances" - the iPhone, the Xbox, TiVo - and an internet whose future is at once much better-behaved and more susceptible to government and corporate control.
How to stop it? "We need a latter-day Manhattan project," Zittrain writes, "not to build a bomb but to design the tools and conventions by which to continually defuse one."'
JZ writes in Prospect (1 June): Are we losing the virus wars?
'Our open technologies are now routinely subverted. One common type of "malware" compromises PCs to create "botnets" - networks of infected machines open to future instructions by the malware's creator.'
Full coverage:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/about/press/coverage.cfm
Booklaunch webcast:
http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20080424_238
Book website / blog:
http://futureoftheinternet.org/
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7. Student Diary
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Christine Madsen writes:
'I presented a paper, 'Digitizing rare and unique resources: the "long tail" role of libraries in digital scholarship' at the Dilemmas of Digitisation conference:
Conference: http://www.mfo.ac.uk/en/events/digitalization/
Abstract: http://www.mfo.ac.uk/events/digitalization/abstracts/#rare
'I have also been participating in the COST Action A32, 'Open Scholarly Communities on the Web.' I presented a paper on using academic libraries as a model for building open scholarly communities on the web at the inaugural meeting of their policy working group (here in Oxford) and also attended the meeting of their Software working group in Ancona, Italy.'
Open Scholarly Communities on the Web:
http://www.cost-a32.eu/
Christine:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/students.cfm?id=125
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Doctoral Funding Reminder: Candidates with a strong interest in privacy and suitable research training are invited to apply for a full doctoral studentship (2008/09 start) on the Privacy Value Networks project (closing: 12 June 2008).
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/dphil/
All the Students:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/students.cfm
The DPhil Programme:
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/
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