Anne Bishop (SILS doctoral student) proposes research on mobile computing in very mobile college student sample population. Proposed research focuses on Human Computer Interaction and Information seeking.
DJ Spooky (Paul Miller) talks about the history of media and thoughts about media in culture. He discusses and demonstrates the unexpected side effects of free speech, law, and copyright while showing the power of remixed art. The future and meaning of remix culture is discussed.
Bob Sutor discusses the effect of open source and open standards on innovation and markets. Specific topics include the effects of open source alternatives on software markets, open standards and interoperability, the new social aspect of software and the open source community.
danah boyd gives an impromptu talk on the development and applications of social networking on the WWW with particular emphasis on young adults and implications for personal relationships. Includes Q and A session.
Chancellor-Elect Holden Thorp speaks at a celebration reception for the campus community in Gerrard Hall after the UNC Board of Governors' election on May 8, 2008.
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Gary Marchionini lectures in the Human-Information Interaction course on the four kinds of information (thing, thought, action, proflection), and on distinctions among information, communication, and interaction.
Dr. Cal Lee, Assistant Professor in SILS, presents a lecture on digital curation, the risks of not planning for preservation, digital archaeology, data exercise, emulation versus transformation, the need for standards and a hybrid approach to preservation.
Eben Moglen gives a talk about the rise of free information, the problems with current copyright laws, and how various powers are conspiring to keep free information from becoming reality.
Professor Ken Bollen, Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science discusses the roles that surveys and statistical data play in policy making. Bollen has developed and applied structural equation modeling to explain complex social constructs such as democracy.
This talk presents the topic of visualization in retrieval information. On the first part, some examples of websites that use visual representation to help to find textual information are presented. On the second part it goes on the opposite direction: how text helps us to retrieve images. For finish an experiment about tagging in different cultures and languages is presented.
Scott Adams, Director of Information Technology at SILS discusses challenges of supporting both instructional and research laboratories and trends in IT support for information-intensiv e schools. Challenges in keeping up with evolving expectations of students and faculty.
In order to remain important to society without being minimized libraries must innovate. But what exactly is innovation? Is any new product innovative? Can we recognize innovation when we see it?
Dr. Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communications Studies and Cultural Studies, aka DocRock, discusses youth culture and the evolution of youth culture as a field over the past 25 years. Trends in music and other forms of culture are discussed as well as clashes between traditional academic culture and evolving disciplines.
![UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor-Elect Holden Thorp\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/cGLEy3UlF3s/2.jpg "UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor-Elect Holden Thorp\")
