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Teaching Awards: OII Fellows Rebecca Eynon and Victoria Nash were presented with prizes at the recent Oxford University Teaching Awards ceremony: Oxford University Press Release.

The new Report: Digital Inclusion: An Analysis of Social Disadvantage and the Information Society presents findings on the links between social and digital inclusion. It is a collaboration between the OII and Communities and Local Government (CLG), designed to inform the Minister of Digital Inclusion's Digital Inclusion Action Plan (October 2008).

Press release: 'Internet is a largely untapped resource to tackling social exclusion': report on UK social disadvantage released by OII and CLG: Digital Inclusion Press Release (pdf, 40kb).

Call for Papers! Ian Brown is the programme chair (Socioeconomic Strand) of Trust 2009, the 2nd International Conference on Trusted Computing (6-8 April 2009, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK). Socioeconomic Strand Call for Papers. Submission due: 1 Feb 2009.

Events

Tues 18 Nov:
Students! Find out about our MSc / DPhil: come to our Departmental Open Day

Fri 21 Nov:
Frances Pinter on The Transformation of Academic Publishing in the Digital Era

Mon 24 Nov:
Tobias Escher: Using MySpace to analyse the geography of adolescents' social networks

Tues 2 Dec:
Richard Susskind: The End of Lawyers? The Future of Legal Service in the Internet Age

Thurs 4 Dec:
Common Knowledge, Open Science with John Wilbanks (Science Commons)

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Webcasts

27 October 2008:
Studying at the OII: faculty and students discuss the DPhil and MSc courses

23 October 2008:
Manuel Castells lectures on Communication Power in the Network Society

2 October 2008:
You've Got Mail: Meeting, Dating, Marriage and the Internet (Whitty / Walther / McKenna)

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From the OII Blogosphere

Tobias Escher: eDemocracy at work - A user perspective on WriteToThem.com

Ian Brown: Internet! Panic!

Ian Brown: NHS medical research plan threatens patient privacy

Han-Teng Liao: Unemployment and User-Generated Content

Anne-Marie Oostveen: Call for Papers

Tobias Escher: Are mainstream media the future of citizen journalism?

Malte Ziewitz: From Tic-Tac-Toe to Traffic Jams: What Public Policy Can Learn from Game Design

Anne-Marie Oostveen: Internet for Farmers

Jennifer De Beer: internet energy consumption 2

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