2007 events

This page links to descriptions of events held in the Information Systems Group where you can listen to recordings of the events (in mp3 format for listening online or downloading), and view slide presentations and read background papers (in acrobat pdf format).

• Technological Architectures, Infrastructural innovations and industrialisation of media: The case of mobile internet
  Ole Hanseth
  University of Oslo and LSE
  Tuesday 4 December
• On Actors, Networks, and Plasma: Heidegger vs. Latour vs. Heidegger
  Graham Harman, American University in Cairo
  Thursday 29 November
• Tripartite UK Information Technology and Development Workshop
  21-22 November 2007
      Dr. David Lewis, Reader in Social Policy, LSE
      Dr. Kitty Warnock, Senior Advisor on Communications for Development, The Panos Institute London 
      Robert Wade, Professor of Political Economy & Development, LSE
• E-Academy: The Next Scientific Revolution
  Prof. Yidong Liu, Institute for the History of Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and LSE
  Tuesday 30 October
• Switching medium: medium specificity, sensemaking, and the re-design of practice
  Giovan Francesco Lanzara
  University of Bologna and  LSE
  Thursday 25 October
• Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mister Jones?
  Professor Stewart Clegg
  School of Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
  Tuesday 9 October
• Making Work More Like Play
  Professor Bonnie Nardi
  Department of Informatics, University of California at Irvine
  Tuesday 3 July
• Fighting against Windmills: Strategic Information Systems and Organizational Deep Structures
  Leiser Silva
  University of Houston
  Tuesday 19 June,
• Sociomateriality: A Practice Lens on Technology at Work
  Wanda Orlikowski
  Visiting Centennial Professor, LSE
  Thursday 14 June
• How to develop in a global economy, with a specific attention to national and local goals: global network and local equilibrium.
  Musikari Kombo
  Kenyan Minister for Local Government
  Tuesday 22 May
• The Digital Image As Picture and Data
  Catelijne Coopmans,
  Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London
  Wednesday 16 May
• Identity in the Information Society: Security, Privacy, the Future
  The 7th Social Study of ICT Workshop at the LSE
  19 and 20 March
• Information Systems Group and the British Computer Society Public Lecture
  The Economics of Information Security - Ten Trends
  Bruce Schneier
  Counterpane Internet Security
  Wednesday 21 March
• The third SSIT Open Research Forum
  21 and 22 March
• Information Systems Research Forum - Lent term 2007
• Research Seminars - Lent term 2007
• A Re Re-conceptualisation of the Interpretive Flexibility of Information Technologies: Redressing the balance between the Social and the Technical
  Neil F. Doherty
  The Business School, Loughborough University
  Tuesday 6 March
• Technology and Collaboration: Researching the development and use of Grid infrastructure at the CERN particle accelerator laboratory
  Will Venters and  Yingqin Zheng
  Pegasus Project, Information Systems Group, LSE
  Monday 5 March
• Beyond the tyranny of PowerPoint
  Yiannis Gabriel
  Professor of Organisational Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London
  Thursday 1 March
• Constructing the Digital Object of Study
  Saskia Sassen
  LSE Centennial Professor
  Monday 19 February
• Open Innovation at the BBC
  Matt Locke
  Head of Innovation, BBC New Media & Technology
  Thursday 15 February
• Mediating Instruments and Making Markets
  Professor Peter Miller
  LSE
  Tuesday 6 February
• ICT and Citizens’ Trust in Government: lessons from electronic voting in Brazil
  Professor Chrisanthi Avgerou
  Information Systems Group, LSE
  Thursday 1 February

page last updated 18 February, 2009

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