Oxford Internet Institute
New OII Project on Big Data
A new OII project using big data for social science research aims to increase visibility, accessibility, and ease-of-use of the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset, a 30 terabyte web archive of the .uk country-code top level domain (ccTLD).
Ten Years of the OII's Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP)
"a bunch of great students doing great research having a fun time with some world-leading academics" - Vicki Nash looks back on ten years of the OII's Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP).
Globalization vs Tradition?
Mark Graham's paper: Perish or Globalise, on network integration and the reproduction and replacement of weaving traditions in the Thai silk industry, has just been published in ACME: Journal of Critical Geographies.
University Outreach Awards
We have launched a competition to find the most innovative outreach and public engagement activities carried out by European universities. The three winning entries will each receive a 5000 EUR prize (deadline: 15 March 2012).
Relearning to Forget
The recent overhaul of Europe's data-protection rules "would make people pause to think about whether it makes sense for data to remain in the handlers' hands," says Viktor Mayer-Schönberger in The Economist (27 January 2012).
PASC Report: Government / IT
The Commons Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) publishes its report on Government and IT that insists Government has still to address the challenges of "intelligent" procurement. Helen Margetts was an expert witness.
Events
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The Attention Economy and the Economics of Search (Society and the Internet Lecture Series, Part 13)
Tuesday 14 February 2012 16:00 - 17:30
Speakers: Dr Greg Taylor
New Threads in the Global Web of Knowledge (Society and the Internet Lecture Series, Part 14)
Tuesday 21 February 2012 16:00 - 17:30
Speakers: Dr Eric T. Meyer and Professor Ralph Schroeder
The Internet, Web, and Beyond (Society and the Internet Lecture Series, Part 15)
Tuesday 28 February 2012 16:00 - 17:30
Speakers: Professor Yorick Wilks
Seminar: Putting The Audience Together - Using Social Network Analysis for Business Insights
Wednesday 29 February 2012 12:30 - 18:30
Speakers: Dr Bernie Hogan
Constructing Identity: Palestine Online (Society and the Internet Lecture Series, Part 16)
Tuesday 6 March 2012 16:00 - 17:30
Speakers: Dr Miriyam Aouragh
Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights
Monday 12 March 2012 09:30 - 17:00
Speakers: Professor Christine Borgman, Professor William H. Dutton, Dr Grace Eden, Dr Marina Jirotka, Dr Eric T. Meyer, Professor Rob Procter, Professor Ralph Schroeder, Professor Diane H. Sonnenwald, Professor Mike Thelwall, Professor Peter van den Besselaar and Malte Ziewitz
From the OII blogosphere
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Looking Back on Ten Years of the OII’s Summer Doctoral Programme
Editor's Blog 7 Feb 2012 17:17PMBig Data: Demonstrating the Value of the UK Web Domain Dataset for Social Science Research
Government on the Web 7 Feb 2012 14:56PMA critique of the Economist's "#AfricaTweets" story
Mark Graham 6 Feb 2012 22:08PMFacebook’s IPO–Outsourcing the push to shrink privacy
Rough Consensus 6 Feb 2012 10:43AMIs Linkbait the new Classifieds?
Rough Consensus 5 Feb 2012 21:53PM
Innovations in University Outreach: Join the Competition across Europe
William H. Dutton 4 Feb 2012 18:23PMSingle Issue Politics is Undermining the Internet
William H. Dutton 4 Feb 2012 18:20PMPhotographs from the OxIS 2011 Report Launch (House of Commons)
OxIS Blog 3 Feb 2012 16:04PMSlow Down, Apple: How to Look at Technology in Education
Rough Consensus 2 Feb 2012 14:15PMCyber Negligence: Sending My Grandma to Jail
Rough Consensus 1 Feb 2012 20:57PM
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Mark Graham 1 Feb 2012 15:18PMOpen invitation to a workshop in Amman: Middle Eastern Participation and Presence in Wikipedia
Mark Graham 1 Feb 2012 12:50PMNew Report: Information in the Physical Sciences
OeSS Blog 31 Jan 2012 14:45PMDigital Borderlands
Laura Mann 31 Jan 2012 02:36AMNew paper published: "Perish or Globalize"
Mark Graham 30 Jan 2012 20:21PM
Last updated on: 28 October 2011