The Graduate Students of the Oxford Internet Institute are delighted to announce the launch of the first-ever student-led interdisciplinary seminar dedicated to the discussion of the Internet and related technologies.
The aim of the series is to provide a forum for the discussion of issues surrounding the increasing pervasiveness of new digital technologies in everyday life from a variety of theoretical and practical standpoints. Sessions will be primarily student-led, with those leading the session responsible for selecting and presenting the texts for discussion. While initial sessions will be conducted by students from within the OII, we welcome student (and staff!) volunteers from departments across the University who wish to take the lead on subsequent sessions in order to promote a truly multi-disciplinary dialogue on matters relating to new media.
Details and a list of the topics to be covered in Hilary Term can be found below. Reading of the texts in advance to the seminars is highly encouraged, to make the discussions as informal and fluent as possible (however we understand that occasionally this may not be possible for participants…don’t feel embarrassed, and do come in spite of that!).
We are greatly enthusiastic about the seminars, and very much looking forward to your participation in this and the coming terms! Feedback is always welcome and we would be happy to answer any further enquiries or suggestions you may have (contact: marcelo.thompson@oii.ox.ac.uk or shefali.virkar@oii.ox.ac.uk
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Posted by Marcelo Thompson, Monday 28th May @ 3:40pm Andrew Murray is Senior Lecturer in Information Technology Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Andrew was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in March 1972 and was educated at Murrayburn Primary School, Edinburgh, Forrester High School, Edinburgh, and the University of Edinburgh. Andrew obtained his LL.B. with honours from the Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh in June 1994 and in June 1995 graduated with the postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice. He began teaching at the University of Edinburgh in October 1995 as a part-time tutor, before moving to the University of Stirling where he was a Lecturer in Business Law from August 1996 - September 2000. He was appointed Lecturer in Information Technology Law at the LSE in October 2000, and was promoted to his current post in August 2006. Andrew has written over thirty book chapters, academic papers and review articles on diverse subjects such as the chilling effect of the UDRP process, regulatory constructs in cyberspace and electronic contracting. Andrew is co-editor (with Mathias Klang) of Human Rights in the Digital Age, Glasshouse Press, January 2005, and author of Regulating New Media, Routledge-Cavendish, November 2006. For further information on Andrew's research see Andrew's research page. Andrew is an Independent Expert for the Nominet UK Dispute Resolution Service. The role of the Independent Expert is to offer predictable outcomes to those involved in domain name disputes occurring in the .uk top level domain. He is also the Production Editor of the Modern Law Review. Readings Andrew Murray, The Regulation of Cyberspace (Routledge), c.2 and 8. Richard Nobles and David Schiff's introduction to Nikklas Luhman, 'Law as a Social System' (Oxford University Press) Julia Black, 'Decentring Regulation: Understanding the Role of Regulation and Self Regulation in a 'Post-Regulatory' World' (2001) 54 Current Legal Problems 103.
There is no need to register, and refreshments will be provided. Posted by Marcelo Thompson, Monday 21st May @ 5:02pm Wendy Seltzer is a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. She has taught at Brooklyn Law School and served as a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and First Amendment issues. In the fall, she will be teaching at Northeastern University School of Law. Wendy speaks frequently on copyright, trademark, open source, and the public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School, and occasionally takes a break from legal code to program (Perl). Note: There is no need to register, and refreshments will be provided. Posted by Marcelo Thompson, Tuesday 15th May @ 9:57am About Prof. John Palfrey: Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Prof. Palfrey focuses his work on Internet law, intellectual property, and the potential of new technologies to strengthen democracies locally and around the world. About the Event: "What is the Digital Natives project? An academic research team — joining people from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland — is hosting and working on the core of this wiki, which illustrates the beginning stages of a larger research project on Digital Natives. "Digital Natives" are those people for whom the internet and related technologies are givens, whereas "Digital Immigrants" migrated to these technologies later in life (Prensky, 2001). Digital Immigrants know how life existed in the pre-networked society, whereas Digital Natives take networked communication as the foundation of their lives. The focus of this research is on exploring the impacts of this generational demarcation. By learning as much as we can about Digital Natives, their way of life, and their way of thinking, we can address the issues their digital practices raise, and shape our legal, educational, and social institutions in a way that supports and protects natives, while harnessing the exciting possibilities their digital fluency presents" [Excerpt from the Digital Natives Project's Wiki]. There is no need to register, and refreshments will be provided. Readings: http://www.digitalnative.org
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