ICTs in the Contemporary World: work management and culture

New ESRC Transdisciplinary Research Seminar Series

The Information Systems Group has been awarded funding for a series of seminars on 'ICTs: organisational and institutional aspects' in the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) research seminars competition.

The major aim of the seminar series is to contribute to the formation of a transdisciplinary research network capable of illuminating a set of organisational and institutional questions associated with the growth and diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The series of ten seminars will run until 2004 and will be open to academics and research students. They will provide an opportunity for leading experts from universities, industry and government and for young researchers to present papers.

The seminar series is funded by the ESRC and is open to the public. UK PhD students are particularly encouraged to participate and their travels costs are subsidised. For more information about support for doctoral students email e.s.keys@lse.ac.uk.

To request information about future seminars please also email e.s.keys@lse.ac.uk.

These seminars follow a series of highly successful seminars and conferences organised by the Information Systems Group over the last two years including the Social Study of Information Technology (SSIT) Workshop; ICT and Globalisation (SSIT 2); and i-Studio 5 seminars.

Jannis Kallinikos, PhD, who is organising the seminars, writes:

'There is an increasing awareness today of the complex and transdisciplinary character of the effects associated with the growth and diffusion of ICTs. The major aim of the seminar series will be to contribute to establishing an enduring forum through which distinguished and emerging scholars, with similar orientations but diverse disciplinary affiliations, can relate to one another in ways that might help to avoid the kind of 'mechanistic pooling' effects associated with less well established transdisciplinary efforts.'

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