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Creative Commons |
2. Communicating the evidence with Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter |
Vicky Neale and David Spiegelhalter explore the role of statisticians in communicating risk to the public, and how patients can be empowered to engage with clinicians when weighing up the benefits and risks of treatment. |
Vicky Neale, David Spiegelhalter |
12 Dec 2022 |
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Assessing public attitudes to both the pandemic and the government's response (Sarah Cunningham Burley) |
At the start of the covid pandemic there was little time for officials to consult the public. Sarah Cunningham Burley oversaw some public dialogues to assess public attitudes to the pandemic, and to the government’s response. |
Sarah Cunningham Burley, David Edmonds |
05 Dec 2022 |
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That's a Wrap! |
Resilience, cool communicators and space robots. This episode wraps a brilliant season of PTNPod, with Ari and Claudine's favourite 5 moments. |
Arianna Schuler Scott, Claudine Tinsman |
11 Jul 2022 |
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Relevant & Useful |
We discuss communication challenges and pipeline problems in cyber security. |
Arianna Schuler Scott, Claudine Tinsman, Andrew Martin, Louise Axon |
27 Jun 2022 |
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5. Democracy | The Europe’s Stories Podcast |
Today, we talk with Sophie Vériter and Josef Lolacher about the core of the European project - democracy. |
Sophie Vériter, Josef Lolacher, Ana Martins, Lucas Tse |
05 Oct 2021 |
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Creative Commons |
2019 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (3/3): Improving Political Discourse (2): Communicating moral concern beyond blaming and shaming |
Lies, propaganda, and fake news have hijacked political discourse, distracting the electorate from engaging with the global problems we face. These Uehiro Lectures suggest a pathway for democratic institutions to devise solutions to the problems we face t |
Elizabeth Anderson |
17 Oct 2019 |
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2019 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (2/3): Improving Political Discourse (1): Re-learning how to talk about facts across group identities |
Lies, propaganda, and fake news have hijacked political discourse, distracting the electorate from engaging with the global problems we face. These Uehiro Lectures suggest a pathway for democratic institutions to devise solutions to the problems we face t |
Elizabeth Anderson |
17 Oct 2019 |
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At The Interface : Richard Mooney |
We discuss Auditory Neuroscience in particular during vocal learning |
Alexander von Klemperer, Samuel Picard, Richard Mooney |
23 Jul 2019 |
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Creative Commons |
Freedom of Political Communication, Propaganda and the Role of Epistemic Institutions in Cyberspace |
Professor Seumas Miller defines fake news, hate speech and propaganda, discusses the relationship between social media and political propaganda. |
Seumas Miller |
20 Jun 2019 |
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Creative Commons |
Communication in Healthcare: A Failure in Need of Rescue? |
Professor Amir Ghaferi discusses the current state of communication in healthcare and in particular surgery. Is there a failure in need of rescue? |
Amir Ghaferi |
03 Apr 2019 |
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Creative Commons |
Outbreak, the clinical research response |
Dr Gail Carson is Head of ISARIC Coordinating Centre (International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium), a network of networks established in 2011 to ensure a rapid research response to outbreaks of pandemic potential. |
Gail Carson |
14 Dec 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
Outbreak, the clinical research response |
Dr Gail Carson is Head of ISARIC Coordinating Centre (International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium), a network of networks established in 2011 to ensure a rapid research response to outbreaks of pandemic potential. |
Gail Carson |
14 Dec 2016 |
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What is Happening with TV? |
Bruno Patino, director of the Journalism School, Sciences Po, Paris, ex-director of digital, strategy and TV channels at France Télévisions. Introduction by Richard Sambrook. |
Bruno Patino |
20 Nov 2015 |
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Invisible Digital in Museums |
Anjanesh Babu, Ashmolean museum, gives a talk on the different roles and uses IT has in museums |
Anjanesh Babu |
21 Oct 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone |
The 2014 Univ Access Lecture took place on Tuesday 17th June in Merton college. Professor Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, discussed “The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone”. |
Daphne Koller, Ivor Crewe |
29 Jul 2014 |
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Community, Community of Practice, and the Methodological Commons |
This talk considers notions of community, community of practice, and the methodological commons as it applies to the digital humanities. A keynote by Ray Siemens, University of Victoria from DHOxSS 2014. |
Ray Siemens |
23 Jul 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
RSC 2014 Conference: Refugee Voices: Panel 3 – Refugees from Burma/Myanmar |
RSC 2014 Conference: Refugee Voices. Lectures by Matthew Wilch; Zo Tum Hmung; Victoria Jack. Recorded on 24 March 2014 at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. |
Matthew Wilch, Zo Tum Hmung, Victoria Jack |
04 Jun 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Ether and Wireless: an Old Medium into New Media |
Jaume Navarro (Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow, 2013) talks about the influence of the idea of the 'ether', an all-pervading substance, in the history of wireless communication. |
Jaume Navarro, Guglielmo Marconi |
15 May 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 45 Connecting and communicating after Typhoon Haiyan |
In the first month of the Typhoon Haiyan response, one of the priorities facing the international community was to re-establish internet connectivity in order to facilitate information sharing and the provision of assistance. |
Mariko Hall, Adam Ashcroft |
07 Apr 2014 |
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Keeping our secrets? Shaping internet technologies for the public good |
The Internet and related technologies, like smartphones and social networking services, are now a pervasive part of British life. Connected cars, smart cities, and ambient loos are coming soon. |
Ian Brown |
24 Mar 2014 |
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The Information Society Agenda: Prospects and Problems |
Discussion of dominant approaches by intergovernmental agencies to information society policy and the prospects for introducing critical perspectives that acknowledge the power relations which inform information society strategies and actions. |
Robin Mansell |
16 Jan 2014 |
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ICTs, Innovation and Regulation in the Somali Territories |
A seminar exploring technology and regulation in the Somali territories of the Horn of Africa. Despite weak or non-existent government institutions, innovation has flourished with local solutions to local challenges. |
Abdirashid Duale |
16 Jan 2014 |
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Humanitarian campaigns in social media: network architectures and Kony 2012 as a polymedia event |
An assessment of the optimism surrounding the opportunities that social media offer for humanitarian action, drawing on analysis of the phenomenally popular and controversial Kony 2012 campaign. |
Mirca Madianou |
16 Jan 2014 |
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Disjunctures and Connections: Case Studies of How Techno-politics Make and Cut Networks |
In a development context, the ways in which new media objects (eg ICTs) are defined in relation to other objects, people and institutions map out new figurations of power and connection, that revalue and recombine political agency. |
Don Slater |
16 Jan 2014 |
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Development 2.0 and beyond: Challenges for ICT4D in 2013 |
Dr Thompson addresses some of the opportunities and contradictions presented by ICT4D and considers some emerging ways in which ICT4D researchers may contribute to the field. |
Mark Thompson |
16 Jan 2014 |
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Science Journalism |
Laura Howes (Merton, 2001), a science correspondent for Chemistry World, talks about the ins and out of science journalism in general, and her path to a career with the Royal Society of Chemistry. |
Laura Howes |
17 Jul 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
Development 2.0 and beyond: Challenges for ICT4D in 2013 |
Dr Thompson addresses some of the opportunities and contradictions presented by ICT4D and considers some emerging ways in which ICT4D researchers may contribute to the field. |
Mark Thompson |
30 Apr 2013 |
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Disjunctures and Connections: Case Studies of How Techno-politics Make and Cut Networks |
In a development context, the ways in which new media objects (eg ICTs) are defined in relation to other objects, people and institutions map out new figurations of power and connection, that revalue and recombine political agency. |
Don Slater |
30 Apr 2013 |
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Humanitarian campaigns in social media: network architectures and Kony 2012 as a polymedia event |
An assessment of the optimism surrounding the opportunities that social media offer for humanitarian action, drawing on analysis of the phenomenally popular and controversial Kony 2012 campaign. |
Mirca Madianou |
30 Apr 2013 |
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ICTs, Innovation and Regulation in the Somali Territories |
A seminar exploring technology and regulation in the Somali territories of the Horn of Africa. |
Abdirashid Duale |
30 Apr 2013 |
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The Information Society Agenda: Prospects and Problems |
Discussion of dominant approaches by intergovernmental agencies to information society policy and the prospects for introducing critical perspectives that acknowledge the power relations which inform information society strategies and actions. |
Robin Mansell |
30 Apr 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
MedicineAfrica |
Dr Alexander Finlayson tells us how MedicineAfrica aims to bring healthcare professionals around the world in a global expert network. |
Alexander Finlayson |
29 Apr 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
MedicineAfrica |
Dr Alexander Finlayson tells us how MedicineAfrica aims to bring healthcare professionals around the world in a global expert network. |
Alexander Finlayson |
29 Apr 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
Marconi and the Broadcasting Option: Annual Byrne-Bussey Marconi Lecture |
Held on Marconi day, 20th April, Gabriele Balbi (University of Lugano) gives a talk about Marconi, co-inventor of the radio. |
Gabriele Balbi |
22 Apr 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
FMR 38 Phoning home |
Simply having access to technology does not resolve the problem of communication between displaced people and their families. |
Linda Leung |
16 Apr 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
Twitter-based early warning and risk communication of the swine flu pandemic in 2009 (Knowledge Exchange Seminar) |
Patty Kostkova discusses Twitter-based early warning and risk communication of the 2009 swine flu pandemic during a seminar on quantitative methods in social media research held at the OII on 26 September 2012. |
Patty Kostkova |
02 Jan 2013 |
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Media Uses and Gratifications: Some Features of the Approach: Response by Denis McQuail |
Denis McQuail's response to Jay G. Blumler's talk on the origins and sources of the appeal of the 'uses and gratifications' paradigm. |
Denis McQuail |
02 Jan 2013 |
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Media Uses and Gratifications: Some Features of the Approach |
In this seminar Jay G. Blumler discusses the origins and sources of the appeal of the 'uses and gratifications' paradigm. |
Jay Blumler |
02 Jan 2013 |
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The Social Economy: Unleashing Value and Productivity through Social Technologies |
Over 70 percent of companies are using social technologies in some way, however very few come anywhere close to achieving the full potential benefit. |
Drummond Bone, Michael Chui, James Manyika, Marc Ventresca |
02 Jan 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
Wireless Communications during the Titanic Disaster |
Michael Hughes (Bodleian Libraries) gives a talk about the final wireless communications from the Titanic. |
Michael Hughes |
22 May 2012 |
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Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation |
Professor Steve Woolgar introduces and discusses the main themes of the Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation conference, by reflecting on recent changes in visualisation media and considering some of the implications of these changes for research. |
Steve Woolgar |
28 Feb 2012 |
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Human Sciences Symposium 2011: The Impact of Exceptional Early Cognitive Environments on Musical Development |
This presentation by Prof. Adam Ockelford was delivered at the 2011 Human Sciences Symposium on The Musical Brain held on 26 February in Oxford. It focuses on case studies of blind and autistic children. |
Adam Ockelford |
25 Jul 2011 |
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Human Sciences Symposium 2011: The Musical Brain - Opening Presentation |
On 26 February 2011, the Human Sciences Symposium focused on the The Musical Brain and the links between music, evolution and human psychology. This podcast is the opening presentation by Dr Iain Morley on Music and its Evolutionary Context. |
Iain Morley |
25 Jul 2011 |
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Beyond Authoritarianism: Ideologies and communication technologies in contemporary Ethiopia |
Iginio Gagliardone, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism on the 7th June 2011. |
Iginio Gagliardone |
19 Jul 2011 |
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Creativity Lecture 2: Creative Selves, Creative Expression |
Professor Richard Harper (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) presents on how to design for 'being human' in an age when human-as-machine type metaphors, deriving from Turing and others, tend to dominate thinking in the area. |
Richard Harper |
20 Jun 2011 |
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The Internet Turns 40: Midlife Crisis or Grand Challenge for Computer-Mediated Communication? |
This talk discusses research being undertaken at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago and its consequences for future forms of computer-mediated communication and for the Internet. |
Steve Jones |
18 May 2010 |
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Authentic Assessment in the era of Social Media: ideas and applications from Internet Communications |
The emergence of Web 2.0-enabled social media online provides a new opportunity to develop assessments that match with, and draw upon students' engagement with online knowledge networking, creating new possibilities for 'authenticity' in assessment. |
Matthew Allen |
18 May 2010 |
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Those Golden Eggs Come From Somewhere: Internet Regulation at a Crossroads |
A discussion of how largely well-intentioned political and legal reactions to the highest-profile risks of ICT creates a danger of perhaps killing the goose that is giving us golden eggs of innovation, decentralization, and personal empowerment. |
Michael Froomkin |
08 Mar 2010 |
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National Broadband Policies: Perspectives from the US and Britain |
Robert Hahn discusses his recent paper responding to the US Federal Communications Commission's request for guidance in designing a national US broadband plan. |
Robert Hahn |
13 Nov 2009 |
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From Weblogs to Twitter: How Did We Get Where We Are Today and What Are the Main Impacts To Date? |
What are the most important milestones in the evolution of social media? What factors have shaped their successes and limitations? |
Kathryn Corrick, Dave Sifry, Bill Thompson, William Dutton |
13 Nov 2009 |
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The crisis of global capitalism: towards a new economic culture? |
Manuel Castells draws on arguments from his book Communication Power in discussing the structural causes and implications of the 2008 economic crisis, and in claiming that we are moving, without much understanding, towards a new form of global capitalism. |
Manuel Castells |
09 Nov 2009 |
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The Growth of the Corporate Blog: 'Letting go' of Information Control or Maintaining the Official Line? |
What do companies expect to gain from maintaining an online 'social media' presence? What are the implications of these trends for the development of traditional public relations strategies and business journalism? |
Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb, Kara Swisher, Simon Hampton, Mark Rogers |
09 Nov 2009 |
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Blogging at 20? The Future and Potential of Social Media |
If social media are the defining advance of Web 2.0, whereby the network-as-platform enabled users not just to download content but to create it, tag it and share it ... what will the next decade hold? Will we continue to Tweet? |
William Dutton, Nigel Shadbolt, Dave Sifry, Richard Allan |
09 Nov 2009 |
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Parties, Campaigns and Representation: The Political Impact of Blogs and Social Media |
Panel discussion during the Oxford Social Media Convention 2009 on whether the outcome of political careers and even campaigns is increasingly dependent on the successful mastery of new communication tools including social media. |
Helen Margetts, Iain Dale, Andrew Rasiej, Matthew McGregor |
30 Oct 2009 |
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Social Media, So What? Assessing the Impact of Blogs and Social Media |
Panel discussion during the Oxford Social Media Convention 2009 on the socially egalitarian and politically democratic potential of social media. Have they lived up to the promises? |
Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Stefan Niggemeier, Evgeny Morozov, Richard Allan |
30 Oct 2009 |
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Breaking News: The Changing Relationship Between Blogs and Mainstream Media |
Panel discussion during the Oxford Social Media Convention 2008 on whether social media necessarily threaten traditional news media, and what, if anything they may have to offer in return. |
David Levy, Richard Sambrook, John Kelly, Jonathan Ford |
30 Oct 2009 |
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Making Science Public: Data-sharing, Dissemination and Public Engagement with Science |
Panel discussion on how social media have changed the nature of the scientific debate among scientists, and how they have impacted on engagement with the public understanding of science. |
Felix Reed-Tsochas, Maxine Clarke, Ben Goldacre, Cameron Neylon |
30 Oct 2009 |
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Breaking News: The Changing Relationship Between Blogs and Mainstream Media |
Among the traditional media, blogs and other contributions to citizen journalism have for a long time been regarded as posing a significant threat to 'quality' news reporting ... is this a valid view? What (if anything) can social media offer? |
David Levy, Richard Sambrook, John Kelly, Jonathan Ford |
07 Oct 2009 |
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Parties, Campaigns and Representation: The Political Impact of Blogs and Social Media |
Are social media tools likely to prove effective in engaging any voters except those who are already interested in politics? Is their apparent 'democratisation' of traditional party structures to be believed? |
Helen Margetts, Iain Dale, Andrew Rasiej, Matthew McGregor |
07 Oct 2009 |
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Social Media, So What? Assessing the Impact of Blogs and Social Media |
Can Web 2.0 tools (eg blogs, social networking and wikis) enhance our democratic freedoms? Or can we dismiss the socially egalitarian and politically democratic potential of these social media? Have any significant social impacts been ignored so far? |
Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Stefan Niggemeier, Evgeny Morozov, Richard Allan |
07 Oct 2009 |
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Making Science Public: Data-sharing, Dissemination and Public Engagement with Science |
How have social media changed the nature of the scientific debate among scientists? Are they challenging the supremacy of editors, reviewers and science communicators? How have they impacted on engagement with the public understanding of science? |
Felix Reed-Tsochas, Maxine Clarke, Ben Goldacre, Cameron Neylon |
07 Oct 2009 |
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Urban Informatics: The Internet, locative media and mobile technology for urbanites |
Marcus Foth overviews various urban informatics projects, exploring the communicative ecology of urban residents, community engagement using public history and digital storytelling, and social navigation for mobile urban information systems. |
Marcus Foth |
03 Jul 2009 |
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The Second Life of Urban Planning |
Marcus Foth demonstrates the value of various tools and services (eg Second Life) for engaging people in novel and participatory planning exercises, and for investigating how the public interpret and understand proposed urban designs and urban planning. |
Marcus Foth |
03 Jul 2009 |
