The role of multi-disciplinary voluntary organisations in modern industrial and socio-technical history.
Book
Wigan, M. (1999)
The role of multi-disciplinary voluntary organisations in modern industrial and socio-technical history. In P. Thorne, & D. McCann (Eds.), The last of the first: CSIRAC Australia's first computer, 151-157. University of Melbourne
Computers and information processing have, in the course of two generations, moved from being a highly specialised and largely secret technology to powering a fundamental empo...
Joho shakai: the Japanese contribution to information society studies.
Journal Article
Duff, A. (1999)
Joho shakai: the Japanese contribution to information society studies. Keio communication review. 22, 41-77. ISSN 0388-7596
Daniel Bell’s theory of the information society.
Journal Article
Duff, A. (1998)
Daniel Bell’s theory of the information society. Journal of Information Science. 24, 373-393. doi:10.1177/016555159802400601. ISSN 0165-5515
Daniel Bell is recognised to be the foremost writer on the information society. The paper expounds his writings in detail, showing their development from the 1960s to the 1990...
Some post-war models of the information chain
Journal Article
Duff, A. (1997)
Some post-war models of the information chain. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 29(4), 179-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/096100069702900402
Reviews the literature of the information chain, analogous to ecology’s food chain, taking the Royal Society Scientific Information Conference, 1948, as the seminal point. Des...
Information gaps: social justice in the information society.
Journal Article
Duff, A. (1997)
Information gaps: social justice in the information society. International journal information theories & applications. 5, 134-142. ISSN 1310-0513
Women’s studies: bibliometric and content analysis of the formative years
Journal Article
Cronin, B., Davenport, E., & Martinson, A. (1997)
Women’s studies: bibliometric and content analysis of the formative years. Journal of Documentation, 53(2), 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000007196
Women‘s studies has emerged as a recognised academic specialty in recent years. We explored the social structure of the field by analysing bibliometrically all scholarly artic...
A note on the origins of the 'information society'
Journal Article
Duff, A., Criag, D., & McNeill, D. A. (1996)
A note on the origins of the 'information society'. Journal of Information Science, 22(2), 117-122. https://doi.org/10.1177/016555159602200204
The origins of the 'information society' are not well under stood. This paper assembles and evaluates the available data with a view to providing clarification of the provenan...
The 'information society' as paradigm: a bibliometric inquiry
Journal Article
Duff, A. (1995)
The 'information society' as paradigm: a bibliometric inquiry. Journal of Information Science, 21(5), 390-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/016555159502100506
It has been claimed that the 'information society' constitutes a new paradigm. The paper describes the use of online bibliometrics to investigate this claim. The methodology i...