Author: Thomas Davidson On Wednesday 15 November I was lucky enough to attend the hotly anticipated launch of the Web Science Institute’s Z21 Start-up Fund. Whispers of this mythical fund have floated around floors 3 and 4 of Building 32 for a while now, and when I was asked to attend[…]
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Author: Thomas Davidson Fresh from the weekend, and with memories of my lunch on Friday still in my mind, Monday led to another Web Science Institute Talk, this time with Tom Rowledge alongside. We were attending the Web Science Centre for Doctoral Training talk on “How to Protect Private Data”, given[…]
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Author: Thomas Davidson On Friday, I was invited to take part in a discussion-based lunch with Rory Mullarkey. Rory is a playwright whose current show, George and the Dragon, is on at the National Theatre. The lunch was arranged because Rory has been commissioned to create a play about the Internet (of[…]
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Author: Thomas Davidson On the 9th of October, the Southampton Web Science Institute was incredibly proud to welcome lawyer and philopsher Professor Miereille Hildebrant. If a speaker is introduced and we are told that she “optimises the intellectual goals and aims of Web Science”, we know that it’s going to be[…]
Read moreAuthor: Thomas Davidson Fresh from a summer of fun, globe-trotting, sunning myself on countless beaches…or maybe just working, I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the latest public lecture in the University’s series. This took place at the Insitution of Mechanical Engineers, in Westminister. Contrary to what the venue suggested,[…]
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Author: Thomas Davidson While the thought of returning to a lecture theatre during our summer break would fill most students with dread, the moods of Thomas Rowledge and I were quite the opposite as we travelled up to Southampton from Poole on Thursday. This is because we’d been invited to cover[…]
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Author: Thomas Davidson I became aware of this week’s Web and Internet Sciences Seminar conveniently just as I was working on my dissertation proposal on much the same topic. This week’s speaker was Nick Anstead, Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Director of the LSE’s[…]
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Author: Thomas Davidson If you’ve read my preview post, you’ll know a little bit about One Young World, and the event we attended in Bath on Saturday. If not, I can explain a bit! One Young World is a global meeting of young people, that challenges, encourages and inspires them[…]
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