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SUMMARY:The power of the voice in the age of the Internet - Dr Nigel Warbu
 rton
DTSTART:20111101T173000Z
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract* \n\nThe combination of digital audio recording and 
 editing with simple means of worldwide distribution has opened up new poss
 ibilities for academics. It is possible to reach very large audiences with
 out having to produce the infotainment beloved of conventional radio commi
 ssioners. Most academics are content to leave any audio recording and edit
 ing to technical 'experts'\, but new technology makes audio production alm
 ost as straightforward as word processing. Too many universities are simpl
 y recording conventional lectures and distributing them un-edited on iTune
 sU. The academic of the future should be adept in recording\, shaping\, an
 d editing their own audio content. \n\n*About the speaker*\n\nNigel Warbur
 ton is the philosopher behind the wildly successful "Philosophy Bites":htt
 p://www.philosophybites.com/ website - a series of over 100 interviews wit
 h contemporary philosophers - which is now also available as an iPhone App
 .\n\nNigel joined the Open University in 1994 and was before that a lectur
 er at Nottingham University. He is best known for his introductory Philoso
 phy books: _Philosophy: The Basics_\, _Thinking from A to Z_\, _Philosophy
 : The Classics_\, _Philosophy: Basic Readings\, Freedom: An Introduction w
 ith Readings_\, and _The Art Question_\, all of which are published by Rou
 tledge. His main research area is the aesthetics of photography\, which wa
 s the subject of his PhD thesis (Cambridge\, 1989) and of a number of arti
 cles. He has edited one book about Bill Brandt and contributed to several 
 others on this photographer. He has also published in the area of applied 
 ethics. \n\nHe is currently writing a major philosophy textbook\, was incl
 uded in the book _New British Philosophy_ (ed. Baggini\, Routledge\, 2002)
  and is a founder member of the Humanist Philosophers Group. His most rece
 nt books are a biography of the modernist architect Ernö Goldfinger\, a b
 ook on study skills in philosophy\, _Philosophy: The Essential Study Guide
 _\, another on _The Basics of Essay Writing_\, and _Free Speech: A Very Sh
 ort Introduction_ (Oxford University Press). Nigel also writes a monthly c
 olumn\, 'Everyday Philosophy\,' in _Prospect_ Magazine and blogs regularly
  for the Index on Censorship weblog.   \n\nHe teaches courses on aesthetic
 s at Tate Britain and is also: an Honorary Associate Research Fellow of th
 e Institute of Philosophy at London University\; a Senior Research Associa
 te of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics\; a Fellow of the Roya
 l Society of Arts\; and a member of the Princeton University Press Europea
 n Advisory Board.
LOCATION:Morrison Room\, University Library (note: new venue)
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