2008 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).

• Researching Real Life: reflections on 30 years of Action Research
  Peter Checkland
  Emeritus Professor of Systems, Lancaster University
  Tuesday 9 December
• Information System Public Seminar
  The Current State of the Information Systems Field
  Leslie Willcocks (Chair), Chrisanthi Avgerou, Richard Baskerville, Eleni Lamprou
  Friday 28 November
• Youthful practices on social networking sites: Balancing questions of design and literacy
  Sonia Livingstone
  Department of Media and Communications, LSE
  Tuesday 18 November
• The Trouble with Information Systems
  Matthew Jones
  Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
  Thursday 6 November
• A Dialectical View of Collective Mindfulness: Creating Radical Architecture with Information Technology
  Richard Boland
  Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
  Monday 3 November
• Information Technology, Organization, and Productivity in the Public Sector: Evidence from Police Departments
  Luis Garicano
  Director of Research at the Department of Management, LSE
  Thursday 30 October
• Information Systems Innovation in Organizations: Thinking Like a Social Scientist
  Chrisanthi Avgerou
  Professor, ISIG, LSE
  Wednesday 22 October
• On Intellectual Craftsmanship in Information Systems Studies
  Leslie Willcocks
  Professor, ISIG, LSE
  Thursday 16 October
• Global Culture and Media
  Mark Poster
  Centenial Professor, LSE
  Tuesday 7 October
• Good Sociologists and Innovative Technologists or Real Amateurs: what does IS have to offer?
  A discussion led by
  Jannis Kallinikos and Carsten Sorensen
  ISIG, LSE
  8 July 2008
• A Schema for Relating and Combining Quantitative, Qualitative, Positivist, and Interpretive Research Methods in the Discipline of Information Systems
  Allen Lee
  Virginia Commonwealth University and ISIG LSE
  Thursday 19 June 2008
• The 8th Social Study of ICT workshop (SSIT8)
  The Habitat of Information: Social and Organizational Consequences of Information Growth
  25 April  - videos available
  Albert Borgmann,  University of Montana
  John Gantz,  IDC – International Data Corporation+
  Jannis Kallinikos, London School of Economics
  Lev Manovich, University of California, San Diego
• Info-Aesthetics: Information and Form
  Dr Lev Manovich   - video available
  University of California, San Diego
  Tuesday 22 April
• Lent term research seminars
• Faceworking: Exploring Students’ Educational Use of Facebook
  Neil Selwyn
  London Knowledge Lab
  Thursday 13 March  12.00 - 1.30 p.m.
• The Biography of the Enterprise-Wide System: Or How SAP Conquered the World
  Professor Robin Williams & Dr Neil Pollock - video available
  University of Edinburgh
  Tuesday 4 March 
• Devising Affectedness: Eco-Homes and the Making of Material Publics
  Noortje Marres - video available
  Goldsmiths, University of London
  Thursday 24 January 
• The Harman Review: Bruno Latour’s Empirical Metaphysics
  Graham Harman, Bruno Latour and panel
  Tuesday 5 February
• Web 2.0 Interactive : Current Debate and Anticipated Impact
  Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock
  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  Tuesday 5 February

page last updated 18 December, 2008

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