{"id":4972,"date":"2016-10-19T07:42:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T07:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2016-10-19T07:42:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T07:42:58","slug":"triple-bill-great-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/triple-bill-great-events\/","title":{"rendered":"A triple bill of great events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adapted from a post published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/digichamps\/democratic-self-determination-digital-age-jeanette-hoffman\/\">Digichamps blog<\/a> written by Tom Davidson<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1895 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/digichamps\/files\/2016\/10\/Week10Oct2016-3.jpg\" alt=\"Busy week: Anni Rowland-Campbell, W3C UKI Launch and Professor Jeanette Hoffman\" width=\"1500\" height=\"404\" \/> <span style=\"font-size: small\">Busy week: Anni Rowland-Campbell, W3C UKI Launch, and Professor Jeanette Hoffman\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/digichamps\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digichamps<\/a> \u00a92016<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Friday, 14\u00a0October was a busy day to round off a busy week for the Southampton Web Science Institute. On Tuesday, the Institute held the first distinguished lecture of the week, welcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/intersticia.com.au\/\">Anni Rowland-Campbell<\/a> who spoke about social machines in a talk that was very interesting and well received. You can see some DigiChamp pictures of the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/digichamps\/sets\/72157671584852144\/\">here<\/a>. There were also two big events on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The first I was again unfortunately unable to attend (compulsory labs getting in the way!) but it paved the way for many more exciting developments in the future. It was of course the unveiling of Southampton as a base for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/Consortium\/Offices\/blog\/category\/w3c-offices\/united-kingdom-and-ireland\/\">W3C\u2019s UK and Ireland offices<\/a>. I am reliably informed that this too was a great event, and one that cemented Southampton as at the forefront of Web Science on a global scale. If you wish to find out more about this, check out the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23w3CatSoton&amp;src=typd\">#w3CatSoton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Packed house tonight for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/achdujeh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@achdujeh<\/a> Distinguished Lecture for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sotonWSI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sotonWSI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unisouthampton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@unisouthampton<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wsijeanette?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#wsijeanette<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Oz0ddFJPlv\">pic.twitter.com\/Oz0ddFJPlv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; sotonWSI (@sotonWSI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sotonWSI\/status\/786950018586533888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Later that same day was a fantastically interesting talk from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/wsi\/news\/events\/2016\/10\/jeanette-hofmann.page\">Professor Jeanette Hoffman<\/a> entitled \u201cDemocratic self-determination in the digital age\u201d. There were a huge number of people in eager attendance, and the talk definitely threw up some interesting questions. As was clear from the title, Professor Hoffman focused on the politicisation of the web. She drew on recent examples of apparent censor from Facebook (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-37318031\">see the story here if you have not already<\/a>) \u00a0to explain how the web is shaped by the way we use it, and how who controls the web represents a blurring between the private and public spheres.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on other research (specifically Dave Clark\u2019s Paper on the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1162\/DAED_a_00361\">Contingent Internet<\/a>\u201d, Professor Hoffman explaining how we could see the web changing democracy right now, today. She suggested that democracy could become not seeing your MP, but instead leaving a dent in the terms of service agreement of multi-national digital companies such as Facebook. She cited the example of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_the_Nipple_%28campaign%29\">Free the Nipple<\/a>\u201d protest and the various \u201csub-sub-sub clauses that remain as a legacy from that in Facebook\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/terms\">terms of service<\/a>. She also said this could be termed \u201chuman rights in the private sector\u201d. \u00a0Hoffman concluded with a number of \u201cpreliminary conclusions\u201d she had encountered from her research thus far. She concluded the talk by then suggesting that a \u201cmodest, liberal\u201d approach was best to stop the internet \u201cfrom going down the drain\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An increasing blurring of the lines between the social, political and technical and the private and public spheres <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wsiJeanette?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#wsiJeanette<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/W3CatSoton?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#W3CatSoton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dr Nicholas Fair (@nic_fair) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nic_fair\/status\/786957524276801537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The conceptual nature of the talk led to a lot of questions from the interested audience. Some asked about specific points made in the talk and others asked Professor Hoffman on her hopes for the future. One questioner was quick to suggest that Hoffman had been too optimistic in her talk, to which Hoffman suggested she hadn\u2019t been optimistic at all!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/storify.com\/tomjdavidson\/democratic-self-determination-in-the-digital-age\">To view a Storify of the event, please click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a fantastic talk to close the fantastic week for Southampton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/wsi\/\">Web Science Institute<\/a>. As a Web Science undergraduate student, it is fantastic to be able to attend important events such as these, and to hear people speak who are leading the way with what you are studying. Everyone at the Institute on every occasion I have been involved with them has been massively welcoming, and I very much look forward to the next event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a storify drawing on all of the tweets from Professor Jeanette Hoffman&#8217;s talk at the Southampton Web Science Insitute on the 14th of October<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73492,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1036169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-science","category-wsi-lecture","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p44UOk-1ic","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4980,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}