Friday 19
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A framework for the analysis of online leadership and cooperation
Mathieu O’Neil, ADSRI
As people spend an increasing amount of time connected to the Internet, networked collaborative work practices are emerging. How can we understand and measure leadership, authority and cooperation in environments such as weblogs, free software projects and wikis? This seminar will present a framework for the analysis of online sociality which combines a structural (or network) approach to critical and pragmatic sociological concepts.
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| Tuesday 23
Seminar Room D
12.30-2pm
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In conjunction with the Economics Program, RSSS
Dire Demographics: Population Trends in Russia
Dr Julie DaVanzo
The RAND Corporation,
Santa Monica, CA
Recent demographic trends in Russia, including rising death rates, lower life expectancy, declining fertility rates, and a rapidly aging population have have caused widespread public concern, both within Russia and internationally. Russia is experiencing unusually high death rates from nonnatural causes, many related to alcoholism. Life expectancy, especially among working-age males, has dropped precipitously. The Russian fertility rate has declined to among the world's lowest, while its abortion rate is one of the highest. The annual number of deaths has exceeded the number of births for 15 years, and the population has been shrinking in size.
Julie DaVanzo, economist and demographer with the RAND Corporation, in Santa Monica, CA, USA, will present demographic trends in Russia and discuss their likely causes and implications. She has published papers on Russian demographics in the Atlantic Monthly and the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs and has given presentations on this work to many different audiences, whose members have included Henry Kissinger and Donald Rumsfeld. |
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