[LINK] Researching Web 2.0, Canberra, 30 July 2007

[Tom Worthington]

Recommended free seminar by Link's own Roger Clarke on researching 
researching Web 2.0, at the Australian National University, 
Department of Computer Science 
<http://cecs.anu.edu.au/seminars/showone.pl?SID=473>.

The ANU is currently being audited by the Australian Universities 
Quality Agency, so I have suggested that Roger's Web 2.0 research 
idea could applied to help blend research with education for a 
quality online university 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2007/07/creating-quality-online-unviersity.html>.

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DCS SEMINAR SERIES

Web 2.0 - Tsunami or Mirage?
Roger Clarke (DCS, ANU & Xamax Pty. Ltd.)

DATE: 2007-07-30
TIME: 16:00:00 - 17:00:00
LOCATION: CSIT Seminar Room, N101, ANU

ABSTRACT:
There's considerable excitement about the notion of 'Web 2.0', 
particularly among Internet businesspeople. In contrast, there's an 
almost complete lack of formal literature on the topic. Movements 
with such energy and potential need to be subjected to critical 
attention. Industry and social commentators should have the 
opportunity to draw on the information systems literature in 
formulating their views. This paper performs a tentative assessment 
of Web 2.0, with a view to stimulating further work that applies 
existing theories, proposes new ones, observes and measures 
phenomena, and tests the theories. In order to do so, it examines the 
origins of Web 2.0 in the marketing arena, followed by its technical 
underpinnings, and then considers the alternative, communitarian perspective.
<http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/ANUSems.html#Sem18>

BIO:
 From 1984-95, Roger Clarke was Reader in Information Systems in 
ANU's then Department of Commerce. Since then he has been back in 
full-time consultancy through his company, Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd. 
He focuses on strategic and policy aspects of eBusiness, information 
infrastructure and dataveillance and privacy.

He has retained his connections with academe as a Visiting Fellow in 
the ANU Department of Computer Science (1995-2005) and as an Adjunct 
Professor from April 2005. He is also a Visiting Professor in 
eCommerce at the University of Hong Kong (2002-), and a Visiting 
Professor in Cyberspace Law & Policy at UNSW (2003-). He has also 
undertaken Gastprofessur at the Universities of Bern (Switzerland) 
and Linz (Austria), and been a Gastdozent at the European Business 
School and the University of Koblenz (both in Germany).
<http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/ANUSems.html#Aff>
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