Political parties, democracy and the new information and communication technologies: theorising the relationships
Journal Article
Löfgren, K., & Smith, C. F. (1999)
Political parties, democracy and the new information and communication technologies: theorising the relationships. Working paper / Faculty of Business, Glasgow Caledonian University,
As a result of the increased public penetration of the Internet and other forms of electronic networks in western liberal democracies there has, for some years now, been a gro...
Powers in the Land?
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2008)
Powers in the Land?. Journalism Practice, 2, 230-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512780801999386
The expansion of opinion is one of the key developments in the British press, as elsewhere. The article analyses the role of one of the most important types of commentator, ne...
Political parties, democracy and new communication technologies.
Journal Article
Löfgren, K. & Smith, C. F. (1998)
Political parties, democracy and new communication technologies. COS-rapport. 3. ISSN 1395-0657
The Past, Present, and Future of Information Policy: Towards a normative theory of the information society
Journal Article
Duff, A. S. (2004)
The Past, Present, and Future of Information Policy: Towards a normative theory of the information society. Information, Communication and Society, 7(1), 69-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118042000208906
The profile of information policy in academic and policy-making circles has been rising in recent decades, a function, presumably, of the expansion of an 'information society'...
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Information and Communication Technologies: Small Hotels and Tour Operators in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Journal Article
Demeke, W., Olden, A., & Nocera, J. A. (2016)
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Information and Communication Technologies: Small Hotels and Tour Operators in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Libri, 66(2), 151-165. https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2016-0029
In Africa the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) varies considerably from one country to another, for example between Kenya and Tanzania on the one ...
Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: understanding metadata and its use
Book
Haynes, D. (2018)
Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: understanding metadata and its use. (2nd edition). Facet Publishing
PART I: Metadata concepts
Part I introduces the concepts that underpin metadata, starting with an historical perspective.
In Chapter 1 some examples of metadata that people ...
Computopia Revisited: Yoneji Masuda’s Realistic Utopianism
Journal Article
Duff, A., & Ito, Y. (2020)
Computopia Revisited: Yoneji Masuda’s Realistic Utopianism. Keio communication review, 42(3), 53-74
Utopianism has always had a bad press. The whole genre, not least classics such as Thomas More’s Utopia (More, 1516), Robert Owen’s New View of Society (Owen, 1813), and Willi...
The infoshop: the alternative information centre of the 1990s
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1999)
The infoshop: the alternative information centre of the 1990s. New Library World, 100(1), (24-29). doi:10.1108/03074809910248564. ISSN 0307-4803
This article introduces the infoshop movement, a network of independent information centres run by political activists throughout Europe and the USA. The article defines and d...
Informatisation: libraries and the exploitation of electronic information services.
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2006)
Informatisation: libraries and the exploitation of electronic information services. In A. Black, & P. Hoare (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland: 1850-2000 (627-638). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521780971.051
Modern librarianship has been shaped by many factors, socio-cultural, political, economic and demographic, but there is a strong case – although not necessarily a technologica...