The power of the voice in the age of the Internet

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• Dr Nigel Warburton
• Tuesday 01 November 2011, 17:30-19:15
• Morrison Room, University Library (note: new venue).

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Abstract

The combination of digital audio recording and editing with simple means of worldwide distribution has opened up new possibilities for academics. It is possible to reach very large audiences without having to produce the infotainment beloved of conventional radio commissioners. Most academics are content to leave any audio recording and editing to technical ‘experts’, but new technology makes audio production almost as straightforward as word processing. Too many universities are simply recording conventional lectures and distributing them un-edited on iTunesU. The academic of the future should be adept in recording, shaping, and editing their own audio content.

About the speaker

Nigel Warburton is the philosopher behind the wildly successful Philosophy Bites website – a series of over 100 interviews with contemporary philosophers – which is now also available as an iPhone App.

Nigel joined the Open University in 1994 and was before that a lecturer at Nottingham University. He is best known for his introductory Philosophy books: Philosophy: The Basics, Thinking from A to Z, Philosophy: The Classics, Philosophy: Basic Readings, Freedom: An Introduction with Readings, and The Art Question, all of which are published by Routledge. His main research area is the aesthetics of photography, which was the subject of his PhD thesis (Cambridge, 1989) and of a number of articles. 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.

He is currently writing a major philosophy textbook, was included in the book New British Philosophy (ed. Baggini, Routledge, 2002) and is a founder member of the Humanist Philosophers Group. His most recent books are a biography of the modernist architect Ernö Goldfinger, a book on study skills in philosophy, Philosophy: The Essential Study Guide, another on The Basics of Essay Writing, and Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press). Nigel also writes a monthly column, ‘Everyday Philosophy,’ in Prospect Magazine and blogs regularly for the Index on Censorship weblog.

He teaches courses on aesthetics at Tate Britain and is also: an Honorary Associate Research Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy at London University; a Senior Research Associate of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; and a member of the Princeton University Press European Advisory Board.

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