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Lisa Harris

Educational innovator & disruptor at University of Southampton. Champion of Web Science, Digital Literacies & Digital Marketing MOOC. Open access only please. Fascinated by transformative potential of technology for education and business.

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Creative Digifest #SxSC is now just one week away!

A few tickets are still available for this event on 18th May in the Student Union at Southampton University - you can register here Our keynote speaker will be Alan Patrick who is the co-founder of Broadsight: Broadsight focuses on market intelligence, strategy and systems development across the multi-media ecosystem. Broadsight has consulted to many of the major digital-media players in Europe and has helped start or turn around a number of startups. Continue reading →

Sponsored Digital Economy PhD Opportunity

Funding available to support PhD research into small business and cultural heritage interpretation partnerships in the Digital Economy  A team of Digital Economy members have just been awarded a Vice Chancellor’s Award to recruit a PhD student who is interested in researching this topic. A grant of £7K p.a. for 3 years (or pro rata for part time work) will be available to cover fees and contribute towards living costs. The project needs to begin before 1st December 2012. Continue reading →

Global Futures Seminar at WSA

Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media Tuesday 15th May @ 4pm in seminar rooms 8-9 Graphics Building, WSA  Alex Galloway: The Cybernetic Hypothesis In an essay from 2001, the French collective Tiqqun speaks of what they call the cybernetic hypothesis: "[A]t the end of the twentieth century the image of steering, that is to say management, has become the primary metaphor to describe not only politics but all of human activity as well. Continue reading →