Oxford Internet Institute Podcast
1) Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism
Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we...Show More
2) Combatting Corruption with Mobile Phones
India's right to information movement demonstrated the potential to combat corruption through social audits – an exercise to share and verify public records with people. India's right to information m...Show More
3) Africa's Information Revolution: Rhetoric and Reality
Over the past decade there has been a phenomenal growth in mobile phone and internet usage in Africa which has attracted substantial media and academic interest. Over the past decade there has been a ...Show More
4) Dying for an iPhone: The Hidden Struggle of China's Workers
An in-depth study of the most powerful electronics contractor and the lives of its 1.4 million workers. During 2010, 18 workers attempted suicide at Taiwanese-owned Foxconn Technology Group's Chinese ...Show More
5) Ethical Treatment of Data in New Digital Landscapes - bringing development practitioners and academics together
How can NGOs like Oxfam come together with academics and practitioners alike to tackle emerging privacy and security challenges when it comes to effective management of data? Data has invaluable appli...Show More
6) The (so far) grassroots success story of Farmerline, a social mobile tech enterprise for African farmers
Alloysius Attah will discuss some of Farmerline's success factors, including its locally adapted technological solutions and strong local outreach. Development organizations, governments, and many oth...Show More
7) Tales from the Zooniverse or, What to do with a million scientists
Tales from the Zooniverse or, What to do with a million scientists
8) De-MOOC-ifying Online Learning
panel examines online learning through comparing and contrasting the MOOC format with traditional online strategies. In the last few years MOOCs have achieved a great deal of attention in higher educa...Show More
9) Facing the Crowd: Past, Present, and Furtures of Digital Labor
Facing the Crowd: Past, Present, and Furtures of Digital Labor Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
10) There Ain't No 'e' in PPE - How do we fill the digital skills gap at the top levels of government and politics?
Interview with Tom Steinberg on the topics of his talk "There Ain't No 'e' in PPE - How do we fill the digital skills gap at the top levels of government and politics?" Creative Commons Attribution-N...Show More