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From: Cushman,M
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Sent: 10/02/03 15:17
Subject: Seminars at LSE
The following seminars are part of the series on
ICTs in the contemporary world: work management and culture.
This series is part of the ESRC Transdisciplinary Research Seminar
programme. UK PhD students are particularly encouraged to participate
and their travel costs are subsidized - for details contact
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> . . For more details of
the programme see http://is.lse.ac.uk/events/esrcseminars/
<http://is.lse.ac.uk/events/esrcseminars/> .
All these seminars are held in i-studio5, the Department of Information
Systems highly acclaimed research space in Tower one at LSE. For maps of
how to find us see http://is.lse.ac.uk/LSE_buildings_files/location.htm
<http://is.lse.ac.uk/LSE_buildings_files/location.htm>
1. Tuesday 25 February 3 p.m.
Trust and Technology Development
George Gaskell, Director of the Methodology Institute, LSE
2.Friday 21 February 2.30 p.m.
Beyond the Grasp and Reach in IS Research: the New Agenda for IS
Community Building
<http://home.cwru.edu/~kjl13/> Kalle Lyttinen
Professor of Information Systems, Case Western Reserve University, USA
This talk discusses and analyzes recent and growing concerns in IS
community that IS as a discipline will wither away unless we change our
focus or find a "core" for the discipline. The main part of the talk
discusses the psycho-social and political reasons for such continuous
anxiety among IS researchers despite the glowing success of the field in
the light of all academic and industrial evidence. The talk will also
discuss different strategies how IS scholars can locate themselves in
relation to such concerns and outline an agenda for community building
which demands to address the true intellectual challenges posed by the
penetration of information technologies within all walks of life
3. Tuesday 11 March 3 p.m..
<http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/dquah/currmnu1.html#hbne> Digital goods
and the New Economy
<http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/dquah/> Danny Quah
Professor of Economics, LSE
Digital goods are bitstrings, sequences of 0s and 1s, that have economic
value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics:
digital goods are nonrival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial,
and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital
goods importantly influence aggregate economic performance. This Article
considers such influences not by hypothesizing ad hoc inefficiencies
that the New Economy can purport to resolve, but instead by beginning
from an Arrow-Debreu perspective and asking how digital goods affect
outcomes. (This is not only analytically better disciplined, but since
friction-free, transparent, well-functioning markets are where the New
Economy is supposed to be headed anyway, there is where the more
enduring economic questions arise.) This approach sheds light on why
property rights on digital goods differ from property rights in general,
guaranteeing neither appropriate incentives nor social efficiency;
provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful
model of innovation and development in digital goods industries; and
helps explain how geographical clustering matters.
4 . Tuesday 18 March 3 p.m..
Governing at a Distance: Some Modest Thoughts on Information Technology,
Democracy and Security
<http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/sociology/whoswho/rose.htm> Nikolas
Rose
Professor of Sociology, LSE
I will raise some questions about the contemporary role of ICTs in the
strategies of government. Taking up some themes from Claudio Ciborra's
Inaugural Lecture in October 2002, I will suggest that ICTs enable the
assembly of both loosely linked and tightly connected networks, and that
there are potential conflicts within the development of e-government
between competing rationalities of democracy and security. The talk will
be exploratory, and will take the form of preliminary thoughts and
questions for investigation.
Mike Cushman [ mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
]
Information Manager
Department of Information Systems
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 7426 Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7385
http://is.lse.ac.uk/ <http://is.lse.ac.uk/>