Lines of flight: everyday resistance along England’s backbone.
Journal Article
Wood, M. & Brown, S. (2011)
Lines of flight: everyday resistance along England’s backbone. Organization. 18, 517-540. doi:10.1177/1350508410387961. ISSN 1350-5084
A line of flight is essentially a movement of creativity, a practical act or a way of living that wards off or inhibits the formation of ‘centres’ and stable powers in favour ...
Owning identity-one or many-do we have a choice?
Journal Article
Wigan, M. (2010)
Owning identity-one or many-do we have a choice?. IEEE technology & society magazine, 29, 33-38. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2010.937026
The rapid growth of databases, biometrics, and RFID has led to an environment where identity-related technologies are approaching a critical mass as a potential means of contr...
Young people exiting homelessness: an exploration of process, meaning and definition.
Journal Article
Mayock, P., O'Sullivan, E. & Corr, M. (2010)
Young people exiting homelessness: an exploration of process, meaning and definition. Housing Studies. 26, 803-826. doi:10.1080/02673037.2011.593131. ISSN 0267-3037
In the past decade in particular, research attention has shifted from an almost exclusive focus on routes or pathways into homelessness towards the investigation of exits from...
Dynamic networks and behavior: separating selection from influence.
Journal Article
Steglich, C., Snijders, T., & Pearson, M. (2010)
Dynamic networks and behavior: separating selection from influence. Sociological Methodology, 40, 329-393. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9531.2010.01225.x
A current problem in the analysis of behavioral dynamics, given a simultaneously evolving social network, is the difficulty of separating effects of partner selection from eff...
Identity, contestability and ethics of unified virtualisation of society.
Conference Proceeding
Wigan, M. (2010)
Identity, contestability and ethics of unified virtualisation of society. In 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), (399-405). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS.2010.5514616
Virtualisation (the replacement of physical representation by bits) in society is placing great pressures on individuals and society. The progressive loss of legal multiple id...
Identity, contestability and ethics of unified virtualisation.
Presentation / Conference
Wigan, M. (2010, January)
Identity, contestability and ethics of unified virtualisation
The information society.
Book
Duff, A. (2009)
The information society. In S. H. Priest (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication, 397-400. Sage
The age of access? Information policy and social progress.
Book
Duff, A. (2009)
The age of access? Information policy and social progress. In S. Papathanassopoulos, & R. Negrine (Eds.), Communications Policy: Theories and Issues, 49-64. Palgrave Publishers
Daniel Bell's theory of the information society.
Book
Duff, A. (2009)
Daniel Bell's theory of the information society. In B. Smart (Ed.), Post-Industrial Society, 201-232. Sage
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...
When social means business: the potential of social computing tools to support collaborative work as part of the organisational information infrastructure.
Presentation / Conference
Hall, H. (2009, June)
When social means business: the potential of social computing tools to support collaborative work as part of the organisational information infrastructure. Presented at Innovation in e-information, Manchester, UK
Based on the results of a study conducted jointly by Edinburgh Napier University and TFPL, this paper will discuss the main risks and opportunities of the adoption of social c...