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Curriculum Innovation, Workshops and the #Digichamps
We are running a number of informal workshops as preparation for our new Living and Working on the Web Curriculum Innovation module which starts in February. Each workshop represents a key chunk of...
View ArticleHacking the Notion of Cyber Security
Cyber security might have become a widespread term in public debate, government security arrangements as well as funding bodies’ strategical directions but it has longer historical and cultural roots....
View ArticleRandom Hacks of Kindness Event: 1st – 2nd December at University of...
Dirk Gorissen from Engineering is running this weekend’s Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) event in the University of Southampton Mountbatten Building (53). It takes place in the Common Room on Level 3....
View ArticleMy experience as a Digital Champion at Random Hacks of Kindness (#RHoKSoton)
Random Hacks of Kindness was a delightful experience for the Digital Champions. Before the event we met twice to learn more about #RHoK, our tasks, and technologies that we were not familiar with, and...
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Twitter harvesting
By Amir Aryaarjmand. At the Creative DigiFest #SxSC2, Adam Field talked about a ‘Lightweight Twitter Harvester’, featuring his service. I arranged an interview with him to know more about this service...
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Making the Digital Physical
On the 10th of December, I was invited to attend to an event in Manchester organised by Lancaster CX Lab called ‘Making the Digital Physical’. CX short for Creative Exchange is a research group focused...
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Meet the Student Digital Champions
Digital Champions are a group of enthusiastic students who are supporting staff and fellow students with new digital products and services. Get more information about the Digital Champions’ activities...
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Blogging Workshop
Graeme Earl, Alison Simmance, Fiona Harvey, Peter Wheeler and myself went down to Avenue Campus the other day to run the first in a series of interactive blogging workshops. We were demonstrating the...
View ArticleDigital Literacy Workshops
Fiona Harvey and myself have a number of workshops coming up over the next few weeks that may be of interest to staff and students – more information and booking links are here These are informal...
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Digital Literacies Conference 2013: Online Learning and MOOCs
The second Digital Literacies Conference will take place in Garden Court, Highfield Campus on 24th April. This year’s theme is “Online Learning and Massive Open Online Courses” (MOOCs) There will...
View Article#WebSci13 is just 3 weeks away…
It is not too late to book your place in Paris :-) The Web demands new ways of working across traditional academic disciplines. Web Science builds skills and expertise in the technical underpinnings of...
View ArticleOpen Data Developments
The University Open Data Service is now well established and starting to become part of our “Business as Usual”. Christopher Gutteridge and Ash Smith from ECS will talk about the new services, the...
View ArticleThe Elephant in the Room: When did data get so big?
Presented by Ian Brown, Projects Director, Web Science Trust. The “Elephant in the Room” in this case is a huge and rapidly growing volume of fast-moving unstructured “stuff” generally known as “Big...
View ArticleDigital Economy Success Stories
Readers of this blog might be interested in some of the activities going on at the Centre for Strategic Innovation which has really bedded in since our launch in November 2011. I wanted the CSI, in...
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The 2013 Digital Literacies Conference #sotonMOOC
Written by @garethpbeeston and first published on the #digichamps blog: The #SotonMOOC conference held today was host to a number of prestigious people from UK businesses and Universities, hoping to...
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#Digichamp Flo Broderick on learning to be a Reporter
Only a month ago I spent my Monday morning at university attending a Digichamps workshop on creating and editing video on smartphones with David Willox and Simon Morice of icmReporting. After...
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Multidisciplinary Research Week 2013- Success
The University of Southampton sprang to life during the 17-22nd March when over 1050 attendees joined us for the 3rd annual Multidisciplinary Research Week. This year’s week long celebration was built...
View ArticleChanging the Learning Landscape #cll1213
Yesterday Fiona Harvey, Graeme Earl and myself headed for London Town to present at the HEA Changing the Learning Landscape event. This event offered an opportunity for those involved in teaching to...
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The Web and the Songlines of the Global Village
DE Lunch-time seminar presented by Ronise Nepomuceno ‘The Web and the Songlines of the Global Village’ The latest report from the IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) on Digital...
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Walk inside a piece of music via the 3D Binaural Audio Rendering Engine
DE Lunch-time seminar presented by Ben Mawson ‘Walk inside a piece of music via the 3D Binaural Audio Rendering Engine’ My hunt for ‘realistic’, immersive experience of digital audio has led to...
View ArticleDE2013 Open Digital Conference at MediaCity
#DE2013: Open Digital: http://t.co/BfgckwGH0L at MediaCity Salford 4-6 Nov. Early Bird registration rates end 9/9 @sotonDE — Lisa Harris (@lisaharris) September 6, 2013
View ArticleUpcoming Digital Economy Events: Autumn 2013
We have lots of goodies planned for the new term, and there are more still in the pipeline – please check out our DE Events page for more detail and ongoing updates. All staff and students are welcome...
View ArticlePaper at British Academy of Management Conference, 2013
Very enjoyable to present some of the work from my colleague Muhammad Nouman’s PhD at the British Academy of Management Conference at Aintree, Liverpool, last week. The slides are here: Bam2013...
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Digital Economy USRG Contributions to Web Science MOOC #FLwebsci
On 11th November 2013 the University of Southampton will be running its first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), focusing on Web Science – a taster of how the web is changing the world and how the...
View ArticleCreative DigiFest and Dragon’s Den #SXSC3
Tickets for this event are going fast, and new workshops are still being added to the agenda – please see below for the latest information. Here’s a reminder of last year’s event Date: 19.11.2013...
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#SXSC3 Speaker Profile: Alan Rae
By Merel van Dijke During the Creative Digifest #SXSC3, several experts will be giving talks and workshops surrounding the theme “value of digital start-ups”. One of these experts is Alan Rae, who will...
View ArticleEarly lessons from the Web Science MOOC #FLwebsci
12th December in 67/1001 12 – 2pm (talks begin promptly at 12.30pm) A number of people involved in the Web Science MOOC (currently in week 4 of 6) will be reporting on what we have learned so far about...
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INSPIRE in Dubai
A productive and enjoyable time was had this week in Dubai at the INSPIRE International Research Conference. As well as presentations from scholars from IMSciences and other institutions in Pakistan,...
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INSPIRE Conference II, 28 February, 2014
Over 70 delegates were inspired by a vibrant conference which showcased the outcomes of the British Council and the Pakistan Higher Education Commission’s INSPIRE initiative, and set the direction for...
View ArticleNew Web Science Institute Blog
Since the start of 2014, we have migrated existing posts from this blog to the new Web Science Institute blog https://blog.soton.ac.uk/wsi – please check this out for the latest content The DE emailing...
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