January 2010
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Call for papers - Special Issue JCSCW
Collaborative work and innovative media in a digital economy The ‘digital economy’ and new practices of collaboration are important emergent phenomena of contemporary work. Web 2.0, Web 3.0, open source and social media – such as YouTube, Second Life, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Freecycle, eBay, Creative Commons, OSI, Google Latitude, Twine, Lycos and Hakia – are enabling people to produce and...
April 2009
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February 2009
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Mobility futures workshop 17th March 2009
MODE: Mobility futures in a Digital Economy
We would like to invite you to attend an ‘imagination lab’ on ‘Mobility futures in a Digital Economy’. The lab is part of the EPSRC Digital Economy funded pilot study MODE (Mobilitiy futures in a digital economy), funded by the EPSRC Innovative Media for a Digital Economy cluster. The aim of the workshop is to generate scenarios for future urban...
Promoting creative collaboration workshop 19 March...
PACT: Promoting Art and creative industries collaboration
We would like to invite you to attend an ‘imagination lab’ on ‘Promoting Art and creative industries collaboration’. The lab is part of the EPSRC Digital Economy funded pilot study PACT ( Promoting Art and creative industries Collaboration), funded by the EPSRC Innovative Media for a Digital Economy cluster. The aim of the workshop is...
The Innovative Media for the Digital Economy...
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26th – 27th March, 2009 Commonwealth Club, 25 Northumberland Avenue London WC2N 5AP
Day One:
Welcome Keynote speaker: Charles Leadbeater Panel discussion: Social networking technologies and critical practice Lunch The IMDE roadmap + Presentations from IMDE funded projects Next steps Dinner
Day Two
Presentations of papers for a potential special issue of the Journal of...
December 2008
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Andy Miah
Andy Miah, IMDE Research Cluster participant appeared on Andrew Marr’s Start the Week, talking about the book Human Futures. Listen to the podcast on the Radio 4 website.
Facebook users hit by virus
This news item from the BBC confirms that we aren’t safe from people trying to get hold of our personal details on Facebook and other social networking sites. An interesting and urgent question for us in IMDE: how to design for a secure and sociable system?
November 2008
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Seed Funding Call for Proposals
The Innovative Media for a Digital Economy invites proposals for seed funding to develop potential project proposals for the Digital Economy call expected in the first quarter of 2009. The Digital Economy Programme. This is an EPSRC/ ESRC/AHRC/MRC research programme for the development of information technology for social and economic benefits. The Innovative Media for a Digital Economy Research...
October 2008
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Human Futures
Andy Miah has published Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty, which is published by Liverpool University Press & FACT. The book is the companion text to FACT’s year-long theme Human Futures and is a critical, scholarly text that brings together leading intellectuals, artists and science fiction writers from around the world to interrogate the future of humanity. Check out his great...
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Digital Economy Reading Group
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Turner, F. (2006) ‘The shifting politics of the computational metaphor’. In From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. University of Chicago Press. Introduction and Conclusion.
To obtain a copy of the reading, please...
September 2008
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Project Incubation Workshop 28th-29th September
IMDE Project Incubation Workshop 29TH to 30th September, 2008 Oxford Thames Four Pilllars Hotel, Sandford on Thames Aims: 1. To develop project ideas and proposals for the Digital Economy Programme 2. To develop the research agenda on innovative media for the digital economy The IMDE research agenda is not centrally driven, and will be informed by the project ideas and proposals put forward by...
July 2008
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Call for Expressions of Interest
The Innovative Media for a Digital Economy invites Expressions of Interest to attend a Project Incubation Workshop, to be held in late September.
The aim of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for those interested in developing a proposal for the Digital Economy Programme. This is an EPSRC/ ESRC/AHRC/MRC research programme for the development of information technology for social and...
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An overview of the three IMDE workshops
We’re beginning to bring together the ideas generated by our first three Context Setting Workshops, in order to lay the ground for future planning. This post is a first attempt at getting an overview of the three workshops, but we’re very aware that this is only one perspective on the workshops. This is a discussion document, so please treat it as such and comment, question or make...
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Innovative Media For a Digital Economy
This research on digital economies investigates practices of exchange that are emerging around the capabilities of social, pervasive and mobile technologies. Through a series of events, this research will explore the potential for new services, new forms of exchange and interaction that benefit the whole of the UK economy
The Innovative Media for a Digital Economy Research Cluster will bring...
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E-Health Plus Horizon Scanning Project
eHealthPlus is a research horizon-scanning and networking project, sponsored by EPSRC. The motivating problem is: the lack of preventative and early healthcare, and the related digital challenges of providing personalised health information.The e-HealthPlus project is generating ideas and building a roadmap, to help EPSRC commission research, which can meet the digital challenges of earlier, more...
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Evaluating how users interact with NHS Direct...
Dr Shirley Large is the NHS DIRECT Consumer Research and Involvement Manager and has written this paper focusing on the way that people use and understand NHS Direct Online presence.
NHSDirect provides the main health advice and information service for the NHS for patients and the public. The NHS Direct telephone service has handled more than 25 million telephone calls since its inception as a...
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Health Industries Context Setting Workshop @ BMA...
Is the outbreak of cancer videos, bulimia blogs and other forms of “user generated” medical information a healthy trend?’. This question headlined an article in the Technology Quarterly of The Economist (Sep 6, 2007) and is just one of the questions that the Context Setting Health Workshop aims to address.
Workshop aim: Identification of challenges for, and new opportunities for innovative...
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June 2008
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Can social-networking sites ever make money? →
From the Tech Review.. “Unlike a newspaper or television show, social networking is a medium whose content is deeply unpredictable….An enormous, highly visible brand may not want to risk seeing its ad wind up on a page such as that run by the actual Facebook group “I’ve Had Sex with Someone on Facebook,” which at press time had 59,353 members.”“
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How Facebook Works →
The social network’s technology manages a vast and rapidly expanding web of connections for its millions of users. Facebook’s power derives from what Jeff Rothschild, its vice president of technology, calls the “social graph”—the sum of the wildly various connections between the site’s users and their friends; between people and events; between events and...
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Is Google making us Stupid? →
“For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many, and they’ve been widely described and duly applauded. “The perfect recall of silicon memory,” Wired’s Clive Thompson has written, “can...
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The 100monthclub →
The 100month Club is a new initative ,by the thinktank Krata, to bring together senior decision makers across public, private and third sectors in the North to explore the opportunities and challenges in addressing climate change.
At this time, just 100 months from now, we will see a two degree rise in global temperatures become a very real possibility and with it will come...
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Amateur Financial Trading
Technology, Action and Cognition in Online Anonymous Markets.Dr Alexandru Preda from University of Edinburgh is researching the current decision making processes behind the increasing use of online anonymous markets being used by the rise in amateur financial traders.Based on the collection and analysis of naturally occurring data, the project investigates the cognitive processes which embed...
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More about : IMDE Transport Context Setting...
Workshop aim: Identification of challenges for, and new opportunities for a digital economy in transport. Expected outcome: - Definition of a research agenda - Ideas for projects - An understanding of the state of the art in research, technology development, commercial endeavours More specifically, in the workshop we would like to - explore methods to assess and evaluate how recent...
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Transport Context Setting Workshop 24th June @...
Image: Suzuki Sustainable Mobility (PIXY + SSC)
The Transport Context Setting Workshop is the second in a series of workshops. It will focus on emerging Digital Economy service and exchange models, behaviours, as well as challenges and opportunities in the way people travel, mobilize information while on the move, and transport objects and goods. For this workshop, we hope to bring together...
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Emma Mulqueeny + her blog roll call →
Emma Mulqueeny is a public sector strategic consultant specialist in all things social media related and has many fingers in pies when it comes to online communication. One of the best bits about her blog is the roll call tab. Here she lists and describes a range of people who we should all know about. Its great reference material.
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Creative Concern: communications for a sustainable... →
Creative Concern are an issues-based communications agency with studios in Manchester and Leeds with a key focus on creating ethically responsible and sustainable campaigns for public, private and voluntary organisations.
Check out their fabulous living advert!
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