ICTs in the Contemporary World seminars

ICTs in the Contemporary World: information, management and culture

The seminars are aimed at exploring the organisational, social and cultural patterns or practices emerging out of the spectacular growth dynamics of information and the diffusion of the technologies sustaining such a dynamics. The seminars will involve a wide range of topics and approaches drawn across social science disciplines and have as an important goal to promote the cross-breeding of disciplines as information and information processes are increasingly becoming a distinctive mark of the age.

This is the second series of seminars run by the department and follows on the notable success of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-supported series of seminars ICTs in the Contemporary World: work, management and culture.

This session, this series of seminars is coordinated by Chrisanthi Avgerou, c.avgerou@lse.ac.uk . Please contact him if you have work that you believe would be relevant to these seminars.

Tuesday

NAB LG.09

17 November
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

Governing the Virtual Commons? Questions around and from Wikipedia
Giovan Francesco Lanzara
University of Bologna and ISIG, LSE and
Alexi Aaltonen, ISIG, LSE

Abstract

Previous seminars in this series

Thursday

NAB 2.06

19 March
12.00 - 2.00 p.m.

Civic Intelligence: An Under Developed Resource
Doug Schuler
The Evergreen State College, Washington State

Abstract

Tuesday

NAB LG.09

3 March, 2009
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

The Future of Information Systems – Thinking Informatically
Tony Bryant
Professor of Informatics, Leeds Metropolitan University

Abstract

Tuesday

NAB LG.09

17 February, 2009
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

Evidence in the Digital Domain
Professor Peter Sommer
Visiting Professor, ISIG, LSE

Abstract

Tuesday

NAB LG.09

27 January, 2009
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

Information Security Governance
Professor Basie von Solms
University of Johannesburg

Abstract
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Tuesday

NAB 1.07

9 December, 2008
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

Researching Real Life: reflections on 30 years of Action Research
Professor Peter Checkland
University of Lancaster

Abstract

Tuesday

NAB 2.14

7 October, 2008
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

Global Culture and Media
Professor Mark Poster
LSE Centennial Professor

Abstract
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Tuesday

17 June, 2008
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

Families without borders: Mobile phones, connectedness and work-home divisions
Professor Judy Wajcman
Australian National University and London Business School
Postponed

Abstract

Tuesday

22 April, 2008
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

Info-Aesthetics: Information and Form
Dr Lev Manovich
University of California, San Diego

Abstract
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Tuesday

4 March, 2008
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

The Biography of the Enterprise-Wide System: Or How SAP Conquered the World
Robin Williams & Neil Pollock
University of Edinburgh

Abstract
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Tuesday

5 February, 2008
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

Web 2.0 Interactive : Current Debate and Anticipated Impact
Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Abstract
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Tuesday

4 December, 2007
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

Technological Architectures, Infrastructural innovations and industrialisation of media: The case of mobile internet
Professor Ole Hanseth
University of Oslo and LSE

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Tuesday

9 October, 2007
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

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

Abstract
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Tuesday

3 July, 2007
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

Making Work More Like Play
Professor Bonnie Nardi
Department of Informatics, University of California at Irvine

Abstract
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Thursday

14 June, 2007
11.00 - 13.00 p.m.

Sociomateriality: A Practice Lens on Technology at Work
Wanda Orlikowski
Visiting Centennial Professor, LSE

Abstract
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Wednesday

16 May, 2007
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

The Digital Image As Picture and Data
Catelijne Coopmans
Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London

Abstract
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Tuesday

6 March, 2007
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

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

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Tuesday

6 February, 2007 2.00 - 4.00 p.m.

Mediating Instruments and Making Markets
Peter Miller
Department of Accounting and Finance, LSE

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Monday

 29 January, 2007
5.00 - 7.00 p.m.

Theories of Value and the Jamaican Mobile Phone
Daniel Miller
University College London

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Thursday

30 November, 2006
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

The Non-Identical Twins: Actor-Network Theory and Translation in Organization Studies
Barbara Czarniawska, Swedish Research Council & Malmsten Foundation Chair of Management Studies at Gothenburg Research Institute

Abstract
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Monday - New Theatre,  East Building

2 October, 2006
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Disasters evermore? Reducing US Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
Charles Perrow, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale University

Abstract
Paper

Thursday

5 October, 2006
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Disasters evermore? Reducing US Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
Charles Perrow, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale University
Seminar to continue discussion on themes discussed in the public lecture

Video

Thursday

1 June 2006
6.30 - 8.30 p.m.

Re-Instating an Ethic of Bureaucratic Office
Paul du Gay, Department of Social Sciences, Open University

Postponed due to illness - a new date will be announced shortly

Abstract

Wednesday

21 June 2006
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

Probability and Fiction in Society and in Economics
Elena Esposito, Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

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Monday

15 May 2006
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

Global Sourcing of IT and Business Services: 15 years of learning
Leslie Willcocks, Information Systems Group, LSE

Abstract
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Monday

10 April 2006
3.00-5.00 p.m.

Discussing the Meaning of the Mobile Phone
Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine, Italy

Video

Wednesday

8 March 2006
3.00-5.00 p.m.

Cultures of Information and Cultures of Storytelling
Yiannis Gabriel, School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London

Abstract
Video

Friday

21 November 2005
 

Models and Metaphors: Engaging the Question of the Future
Harmeet Sawhney, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

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