2011 events

This page links to descriptions of events held in the Information Systems Group where you can watch videos of events (using an embedded player - no download necessary); 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).

• Digital Discipline: The Active Complicity of the Modern Subject
  Hamid R. Ekbia
  Indiana University, Bloomington 
  6 December
• Exploring the Dynamism of Stakeholder Salience in Mega-IT Projects: some evidence from NHS middle managers
  David W. Wilson
  Birkbeck, University of London
  1 December
• Of Technicity: Some reflections on sociomaterial becoming and performativity
  Lucas Introna
  Lancaster University Management School
  1 November
• The Culture of Creativity - The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
  Pekka Himanen
  University of Art and Design Helsinki
  Monday 31 October
• Intrusion plus Retreat: Questions on the Unique ID Project in India
  Ram Ramakumar
  Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
  20 October
• The Organization and Politics of Massively Scalable Purposive Action
  Giorgos Cheliotis
  National University of Singapore  
  6 October
• Farewell ADMIS: Welcome MISI
  12 September
• The Influence of Spatial and Structural Characteristics of Work on the Individual Perceived Need for Mobile IS in the Workplace
  Eusebio Scornavacca
  Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  16 June
• Realising Research: Critical Realism as an Underpinning Philosophy for IS and Management Research
  John Mingers
  Kent Business School, University of Kent
  18 May
• Social Study of Information and Communication Technologies (SSIT11)
  Information Systems and the Financial Crisis: Is technology to blame?
  Speakers include
  • M. Lynne Markus, Professor of Information and Process Management, Bentley University, USA
  • Elena Esposito, Professor of Sociology of Communication, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • Stephen Norman, CIO, RBS
  • Magí Clavé, Directorate of Information Systems, ECB

  28 March
  

• Experts at Being Seen as Experts: Knowledge Management Technology as a Stage for Strategic Self-Presentation
  Paul Leonardi
  Northwestern University
  23 March
• The Rise of the Lowest Common Denominator? How "social utilities" such as Facebook can dilute discourse by collapsing social context
  Bernie Hogan
  Oxford Internet Institute
  Thursday 10 March
• Open to interpretation? Participatory discourses, productive practices and learner engagement in Open Educational Resources
  Panagiota Alevizou
  Open University
  Thursday 3 February
• From turntables to bitstrings: technology, the material and the non-material in organisational life
  Jochen Runde and Philip Faulkner
  University of Cambridge
  Tuesday 1 February
• Platforms, Markets and Innovation
  Annabelle Gawer
  Imperial College Business School
  Thursday, 20 January 2011
  
   

page last updated 08 December, 2011

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