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May 19, 2008

Sanger versus/and Keen at Oxford

Filed under: Internet, Other, Theory — Larry Sanger @ 12:08 pm

Should be fun:

Is the Future of the Internet the Future of Knowledge?
Tuesday 27 May 2008 16:00 - 18:00

Larry Sanger, Editor in Chief of Citzendium and a founder of Wikipedia
Andrew Keen, author of ‘The Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture’

Location: Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS. This event is open to the public. If you would like to attend please email your name and affiliation, if any, to: events@oii.ox.ac.uk

This event brings together two of the leading figures in media and academic debates about the value and potential of user-generated content. In this moderated debate, Larry Sanger and Andrew Keen will be challenged to answer a range of questions relating to the Internet’s role in creating and disseminating knowledge.

This event is organised by the Weidenfeld Institute Leadership and Scholarship Scheme in collaboration with the OII.

A few days later I’ll be in Santa Barbara (UCSB) for a social computing workshop.

We hope to make the initial announcement, finally, of that free educational content project in June.

4 Comments »

  1. is there a transcript from this debate?

    Comment by Tom — June 1, 2008 @ 11:19 am

  2. Not yet. I might post my opening remarks. The Oxford Internet Institute said they were going to a video.

    Comment by Larry Sanger — June 1, 2008 @ 6:53 pm

  3. See also this write-up from Andrew in the Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/andrew-keen-on-new-media-837997.html

    Comment by Larry Sanger — June 1, 2008 @ 6:58 pm

  4. [...] and “back in the saddle” after a full week away.  First I went to Oxford, to have a public debate with Andrew Keen.  That was fun.  I especially enjoyed walking around the different colleges and meeting different [...]

    Pingback by Citizendium Blog » Recent trips to Oxford, England and Santa Barbara, California — June 3, 2008 @ 10:41 am

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