OII Webcasts

Lynne Brindley assesses how the British Library is utilising the opportunities offered by new technologies, including digitisation and web 2.0 functions, to enable wider access to its collection and to enhance the Library’s services and exhibitions. She also considers the issues that the Library faces as it builds the digital library of the future.

The presentation provides an overview of the Commission initiative "i2010 Digital Libraries", a flagship project of the Commission's overall strategy launched in 2005 to boost the digital economy, the i2010 strategy.

Question and answer session - how are new media platforms and practices changing journalism? What editorial, political and social opportunities do they offer?

How are new media platforms and practices changing journalism? What editorial, political and social opportunities do they offer?

The Internet's current trajectory is one of lost opportunity. Its salvation, argues Jonathan Zittrain, lies in the goodwill of its millions of users. Drawing on generative technologies like Wikipedia that have so far survived their own successes, he shows how to develop new technologies and social structures that allow users to work creatively and collaboratively, avoiding the excesses and abuses of openness and saving the Net from lockdown.

How should museums display and interpret our computing history and culture? This talk unpacks some of issues surrounding the creation of a new computing gallery at the Science Museum, presenting some of the approaches and possible forms of interpretation.

A discussion of online social networks, covering online Social networks: 'Social Networks: Reconfiguring Access to People', 'Cyber tribes and information warfare' and 'Youth Work and Social Networking'.

A discussion of intimate relationships and online social networks, covering intimate relationships and online social networks: 'Netiquette within Married Couples' and 'Stalking 2.0. Social Networking and Privacy: Incompatible Ideas?'.