New ESRC Transdisciplinary Research Seminar Series

ESRC Transdisciplinary Research Seminar Series

ICTs in the contemporary world: work management and culture.

See Inaugural seminar 14 June 2002: Knowledge, Economy and Society for presentations from the first seminar.

For presentations from other seminars, see below.

Wednesday 2 February 2005	On the Communicative Construction of Reality	Thomas Luckmann, Universität Konstanz	Full text: On the Communicative Construction of Reality (PDF) Abstract: On the Communicative Construction of Reality
Thursday 25 November 2004	Protecting Civil Liberties in the War on Terror - cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances	Barry Steinhardt, American Civil Liberties Union	Abstract: Protecting Civil Liberties in the War on Terror
Friday 15 October 2004 3-5pm	Tales from the Crypt - a narrative study of IT consultants and organizing in the dotcom era	Magnus Bergquist, Göthenburg University and Jan Ljungberg, Viktoria Institute, Göthenburg	Abstract: Tales from the Crypt: a narrative study of IT consultants and organising in the dotcom era Presentation: A Narrative Study of IT- Consultants and Organising in the Dotcom Era
Tuesday 8 June 2004 3-5pm	ICTs and Collaborative R&D	Roberta Lamb, Unviersity of Hawaii at Manoa	Abstract: ICTs and Collaborative R&D Presentation: ICTs and Collaborative R&D Paper 1: Information and Communication Technology Challenges to Professional Scientific Identity (PDF) Paper 2: Hybrid Organization in High-Tech Enterprise (PDF)
Wednesday 2 June 2004 3-5pm	The Mind or the Heart? It depends on the (definition of) situation	Claudio Ciborra, Professor of Information Systems, LSE	Abstract: The Mind or the Heart? It depends on the (definition of) situation
Thursday 6 May 2004 3-5pm	Surveillance after 9/11: a view from Japan	David Lyon, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada	Abstract: Surveillance after 9/11: a view from Japan
Thursday 18 March 2004 3-5pm	Dialogical Action Research at Omega Corporation	Allen S Lee, Virginia Commonwealth University	Abstract: Dialogical Action Research at Omega Corporation
Friday 27 February 2004 10.30am - 12.30pm	Open Source Software in the Trenches: lessons from a large-scale implementation	Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick	Abstract: Open Source Software in the Trenches: lessons from a large-scale implementation Presentation: Open Source Software In The Trenches: lessons from a large-scale OSS implementation Paper: Open Source Software in the Trenches: lessons from a large-scale OSS implementation (PDF)
Thursday 22 January 2004 4-6pm	Theorizing Transformations in Practice: an activity-theoretical perspective	Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki and University of California, San Diego	Presentation: Theorizing Transformations In Practice: an activity-theoretical perspective Paper: New Forms of Learning in Co-configuration Work (PDF) Video
Friday 21 November 2003 2.30-5pm	Mobility, Information and Social Networks	John Urry, Lancaster University Robert Cooper, Keele University	Abstracts: Mobility, Information and Social Networks John Urry’s presentation
Thursday 2 October 2003 2.30-5pm	The Knowledge Ecology of Open-Source Software Projects	Giovan Francesco Lanzara, Università di Bologna and Michèle Morner, Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt	Abstract: The Knowledge Ecology of Open-Source Software Projects Paper: The Knowledge Ecology of Open-Source Software Projects (PDF) Presentation: The Knowledge Ecology of Open-Source Software Projects
Tuesday 29 April 2003 4-5.30pm	The Support Economy: re-inventing capitalism? (seminar)	Shoshana Zuboff, Harvard Business School	Abstract: The Support Economy: re-inventing capitalism? Video
Tuesday 29 April 2003 6-7.30pm	The Support Economy: re-inventing capitalism? (public lecture)	Shoshana Zuboff, Harvard Business School and Jim Maxmin, former CEO of Volvo-UK, Thorn Home Electronics, and Laura Ashley PLC	Abstract: The support economy: re-inventing capitalism? - public lecture
Tuesday 18 March 2003 3-5pm	Governing at a Distance: some modest thoughts on information technology, democracy and security	Nikolas Rose, Professor of Sociology, LSE	Abstract: Governing at a Distance: some modest thoughts on information technology, democracy and security Paper: Political Power Beyond The State: problematics of government (PDF) Video
Tuesday 11 March 2003 3-5pm	Digital Goods and the New Economy	Danny Quah, Professor of Economics, LSE	Abstract: Digital Goods and the New Economy Paper: CEP/DP0563 -- Digital goods and the New Economy
Tuesday 25 February 2003 3-5pm	Trust and Technology Development	George Gaskell, Director, Methodology Institute, LSE	Video
Friday 21 February 2003 2.30-4.30pm	Beyond the Grasp and Reach in IS Research: the new agenda for IS community building	Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University	Abstract: Beyond the Grasp and Reach in IS Research: the new agenda for IS community building Presentation: When grasp exceeds reach: Failures of Foresight and Fortitude in the Information Systems (IS) Field
Thursday 28 November 2002 2-4pm	Ecology of Distributed Mediated Practice	Dick Boland, Case Western Reserve University	Paper: Ecology of Distributed Mediated Practice (PDF)

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.

You can also email e.s.keys@lse.ac.uk to request information about future seminars.

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, 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."