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British political parties online: consumerist democracy?

Presentation / Conference
Smith, C. F. (1997, September)
British political parties online: consumerist democracy?. Paper presented at XIth meeting of the Permanent Study Group on Informatization in Public Administration, European Group of Public Administration Annual Conference, Leuven, Belgium

US hack shows data is the new frontier in cyber security conflict.

Other
Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
US hack shows data is the new frontier in cyber security conflict
More than four million personal records of US government workers are thought to have been hacked and stolen, it has been. With US investigators blaming the Chinese government ...

Self-efficacy as a factor in the evaluation of e-petitions.

Conference Proceeding
Cruickshank, P. & Smith, C. F. (2008)
Self-efficacy as a factor in the evaluation of e-petitions. In Parycek, P. (Ed.). Proceedings of EDEM 2009 - Conference on Electronic Democracy, 223-232. ISBN 978-3-85403-251-9
E-petitions are seen as one response to a perceived decline in public trust of political institutions and the associated symptoms of disengagement. In this paper, some current...

Future risks – Including the rise of the hacktivism.

Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J. (2011)
Future risks – Including the rise of the hacktivism. In National Information Security Conference (NISC)
As organisations move towards infrastructures which are highly dependent on their Web infrastructure, they are now at great risk from external parties who can use a number of ...

Members of the Scottish Parliament on the net: using internet based technologies in the Scottish Parliament.

Presentation / Conference
Smith, C. F., & Webster, W. (2003, January)
Members of the Scottish Parliament on the net: using internet based technologies in the Scottish Parliament. Paper presented at Government and Democracy in the Information Ade (GaDIA) 'Cyberdemocracy' Working Group, Copenhagen, Denmark
This paper presents research undertaken into the use of Internet Based Technologies (IBTs) by Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). It is based on research findings from ...

Ashley Madison breach reveals the rise of the moralist hacker

Other
Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
Ashley Madison breach reveals the rise of the moralist hacker
There’s value in more than just credit card data, as Avid Life Media (ALM), parent company of the extramarital affair website Ashley Madison, has found out after being raided ...