Hi everyone, Thanks for all your contributions to our Research Cluster events. Our Springboard Event on 26th and 27th March, showcasing all the seed funded projects, has been a great success. Visit our website, where you'll be have a look at the agenda and the presentations: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research/digital-economy/events. We also have a map showing all the work that we've been doing, so please be sure to visit it: you'll find it here ht... [read more]

It took us some time to find out whether our plans to make seed funding available to IMDE participants would be acceptable to our funders, but we now have finally cleared everything and can go ahead. If there is anyone who would like to use seed funding to develop a potential project, please go to our website for details: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research/digital-economy/news. If you have want to discuss this further, please be in touch with me.

I think we can safely say that the project incubation workshop succeeded in generating lots of ideas. They're at different stages of incubation, but we're starting to see a very exciting research agenda emerging. We'll soon make available details of the seed funding and how to get some to develop your project further. Please go to the IMDE website if you want to see the presentation slides again, including guidelines for writing EPSRC proposals: ... [read more]

You might be interested in some of the presentations at the Web 2.0 conference in York last year and other more recent events. If you follow the link you will get to ReDReSS that recorded some presentations at York. http://redress.lancs.ac.uk/Workshops/Presentations.html#web2.0 Enjoy...

Dear Network Colleagues, You are invited to attend a research by design workshop in Edinburgh on the 16-17 October on the theme of using mobile technology to improve social encounters in the urban space, entitled 'Placema(r)king - brands v. tags'. This is the third of a series of workshops run by the multidisciplinary 'Branded Meeting Places' project team in the Depts of Arts, Culture and Environment, Technology Studies, Informatics, and in colla... [read more]

Hi all, I just wanted to say I greatly enjoyed the workshop in Oxford and look forward to discussing in more depth many of the ideas that were raised over the two days. As an aside, some of you may be interested in the reading list which has recently been published for the Battle Of Ideas 2008. Both the sections on Media and Technology & Cities draw parallels to our own themes around STS - http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2008/readings K... [read more]

Finola Kerrigan: Thanks for this Nicky. It was good to chat to you. Best wishes Finola

Mark Jones: sorry i missed it and you Had a few issues with Animal Agentz We now have the backing of Dr Chris Steele MBE best mark

Any suggestions? Best mark

I'm very sorry I was too ill to make it to Oxford this week but if anyone would like to know more about transliteracy please get in touch. I look forward to reading reports of your conversations.

Our agenda for the day has posted on the IMDE website, and participants can take a look at the expressions of interest (http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research/digital-economy/events). We're hoping that everyone attending will be able to make progress towards developing project ideas. Use this space to form teams and communities prior to the event.

Most of you will have received an email from me about our Call for Expressions of Interest to participate in the IMDE Project Incubation Workshop. The call can also be found on our tumblr: http//digitaleconomies.tumblr.com

Please visit our tumbl'r http://digitaleconomies.tumblr.com for an overview of the three workshops and help us develop it further ...

Members of this community may be interested in a digital media project I set up called Powerleague, which was a runner up in the New Statesman New Media Awards announced last week. Briefly, it's an online tool that enables the building up of representations of power. In the original version designed for schools called World Power League, users can pick between 2 images presented to them with the question 'Who do you wish was more powerful?' The r... [read more]

This was our first workshop, held on 29th May. Notes taken on the discussion can be found here: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/research/digital-economy/events/events. There are lots of ideas and possibilities and of course also sometimes doubts and misgivings. If you were a participant (or even if you weren't), and have your own ideas about what are the most important questions, issues and topics, please add a post here. Annamaria

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Gary Graham: A really interesting (important) question for me would be the extent to which health, transport and creative industry planning could or should be different in a digital economy age. Maybe there is a need to look at the “before and after of digital ec... [read more]

Annamaria Carusi: Hi Graham, this is an interesting point. What do you mean by planning - do you mean on a governance / policy or organisational level?

Gary Graham: Hi Annamaria, I believe a positive theme from the workshops was the opportunites to build substantial and insightful multi disciplinary research. As was evident from the workshops there exists a number of economic, social, legal and regulatory issues... [read more]

Hi all, images of people and posters from the Health and Transport workshops are up on our tumbl'r at http://digitaleconomies.tumblr.com. Comments, questions, anything to say that you weren't able to say on the day but would really like to ...

Hi I'm very happy to be working with you and look forward to our next workshop on digital economies for transport in Manchester! Monika

Lee Ralph: Hi - i am interested in understanding the outcomes of the Manchester workshop. Will there be a summary of the workshop available online? Lee

Monika Buscher: Hi Lee, yes there will be. On http://digitaleconomies.tumblr.com/ Monika