UXDesignCast 5 - Gale Moore of KMDI
May 9th, 2008 — karelvredenburgKarel Vredenburg interviews Gale Moore who is Director of the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) at the University of Toronto. Gale outlines the mandate and origins of KMDI and outlines the kind of projects carried out at the institute. An exploration of Gale’s background as a Sociologist leads to a wide ranging discussion of the numerous Web 2.0 trends impacting the social fabric of societies worldwide. Also discussed are the various positive and negative impacts of Web 2.0 in the areas of social interaction, university education, academic peer review, intellectual property review, and organizational transformation. For further information, learn more about KMDI, its faculty, the ePresence Interactive Media project, Project Open Source|Open Access, and access the KMDI newsletter archive and to subscribe to it send to info@kmdi.utoronto.ca.
