The TPRC is seeking to select up to 6 TPRC Junior Fellows – early-career researchers engaged in research on the Internet, telecommunication and media policy in the digital age. Please nominate individuals whom you think might make outstanding fellows. Those who have wond student paper awards at the TPRC conference as well as those who … Continue reading Nominate an Early Career Research to Become a TPRC Junior Fellow
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Cybersecurity and the Rationale for Capacity Building: Notes on a Conference
The fifth annual conference of Oxford’s Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC) was held in late February 2019 at the Oxford University’s Martin School. It engaged over 120 individuals from the capacity building community in one full day of conference sessions, preceded and followed by several days of more specialized meetings.* The focus of the … Continue reading Cybersecurity and the Rationale for Capacity Building: Notes on a Conference
Society and the Internet: a new reader for courses
A new book edited by Mark Graham and myself is in print and available for courses: Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives. It is published by Oxford University Press, and material about the book is available on their website at: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199662005.do How is society being shaped by the diffusion … Continue reading Society and the Internet: a new reader for courses
Identifying centres of cybersecurity research expertise – results to date
We have volunteered to help CDEC find expertise in areas key to its work. One of the first areas we’ve considered is cybersecurity. Where does expertise lie in cybersecurity research in the UK, but also internationally. We asked six cybersecurity researchers in the UK to indicate the locus of the most important contemporary work. While … Continue reading Identifying centres of cybersecurity research expertise – results to date
Web Science Conference 23-26 June 2014 at Indiana University
I have agreed to co-chair the next Web Science Conference, Web Science 2014, which will be held in 2014 at Indiana University. The lead chairs are Fil Menczer and his group at Indiana University, and Jim Hendler at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and one of the originators of the Semantic Web. The dates are 23-26 June … Continue reading Web Science Conference 23-26 June 2014 at Indiana University
The EU’s Right to be Forgotten and Why it is Wrong
The Guardian today featured two articles that bring home the risks of governmental policies and directives seeking to enforce the ‘right to forget’. One was about Britain (wisely) seeking to opt-out of EU’s data protection regulation that dictates the right for people to delete information from the Internet, such as an embarrassing photo. The other … Continue reading The EU’s Right to be Forgotten and Why it is Wrong
Independence of the Press is Key to Any Leveson Reform
It is heartening to read Alan Rusbridger's editorial in The Guardian of 25 March 2013, as he seems to have become more aware of some of the serious weaknesses in the proposed press regulation, which has changed in ways that may have undermined his early support. See: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/current He calls attention to the private meetings … Continue reading Independence of the Press is Key to Any Leveson Reform
What Can You Say Online?
The Economist recently addressed the chilling effect that libel law is likely to have on Twitter, arguing that: ‘Now it [Twitter] seems to fall under the law’s shadow to a greater extent than similar speech does on the offline world’ (November 24, 2012: 37). But it is not simply libel law that could undermine freedom … Continue reading What Can You Say Online?
China and the New Internet World at Oxford University: 13 and 14 June 2013
The OII is involved with a wide range of collaborating partners in the organization of two joined events focused on China and the New Internet World. Running over two days, the first event on Friday, 14 June 2013, will be an pre-conference to the 2013 International Communication Association’s Annual Conference. The preconference will be held … Continue reading China and the New Internet World at Oxford University: 13 and 14 June 2013
Robin Mansell’s ‘Imagining the Internet’
I had the honor of participating in a launch of Robin Mansell's new book, Imagining the Internet (Oxford University Press, 2012). Here is a podcast of the launch, featuring an overview by Robin. Download: Audio, Video, Slides - R MansellSpeaker(s): Professor Robin Mansell, Professor William H Dutton, Professor Robert Wade Chair: Professor Sonia Livingstone Recorded … Continue reading Robin Mansell’s ‘Imagining the Internet’