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On the present state of information society studies.

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Duff, A. (2001)
On the present state of information society studies. Education for Information. 19, 231-244. ISSN 0167-8329
The paper assesses the present condition of the emerging specialism. Topics include the information economy; information technology; the information explosion; the Japanese ve...

Joho shakai: the Japanese contribution to information society studies.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Duff, A. (1997)
Information gaps: social justice in the information society. International journal information theories & applications. 5, 134-142. ISSN 1310-0513

A note on the origins of the 'information society'

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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

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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...

Is intellectual property theft? BI’s hidden ideology.

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Duff, A. (1994)
Is intellectual property theft? BI’s hidden ideology. Research strategies : RS. 13, 132-143. ISSN 0734-3310
Discusses the "hidden" ideology in traditional bibliographic instruction's treatment of intellectual property rights and copyright laws, and suggests that protection of these ...

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Information Revolutionaries

2014 - 2014
Information Revolutionaries? Silicon Valley and Social Transformation. A Carnegie travel grant to carry out project work in USA
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £1,830

Informing the Good Society (InGSoc): New Direction in Information Policy

2012 - 2017
InGSoc (Informing the Good Society: New Directions in Information Policy) is a three-year project, funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council standard grant. The project, whose common thread is...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £169,026

Power, Information, Opinion: Walter Lippmann in the Post-Industrial Era

2011 - 2012
Dr Alistair Duff visited the Lippmann Papers (Walter Lippman’s personal archives and associated materials) at Yale University in autumn 2011. Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), although not enjoying a cur...
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £1,350

A normative theory of the information society

2006 - 2009
Information society studies has emerged as an important field of interdisciplinary research, illustrated by the success of The Information Society: An International Journal, and the newer British-base...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £19,168

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A Systems Dynamic Exploration of The Influence of Multi-level End-Users' Emergent Actions and Managerial Intentionality on Information Systems Strategy Alignment in a Service Organisation using a Coevolutionary Perspective– A Critical Realist Case Study

2020 - date
Thoko Kachale | Director of Studies: Dr Wegene Demeke | Second Supervisor: Dr Christos Chrysoulas

The 21st century public library in England and Scotland: epistemic, community and political roles in the public sphere

2013 - 2020
Leo Appleton's PhD research explores the impact of libraries on citizenship. He is...
Leo Appleton | Director of Studies: Prof Hazel Hall | Second Supervisor: Prof Robert Raeside

HI-Risk: a socio-technical method to identify and monitor heathcare information security risks in the information society

2009 - 2014
This thesis describes the development of the HI-risk method to assess socio-tec...
Nicole van Deursen (Hazelhoff Roelfze) | Director of Studies: Prof Alistair Duff | Second Supervisor: Prof Bill Buchanan

Tony Blair?s television political interviews in the aftermath of the Iraq war

2008 - 2011
Aonghus Ferguson | Director of Studies: Prof Chris Atton | Second Supervisor: Prof Alistair Duff

New technologies and print journalism practice in Zimbabwe: an ethnographic study

2007 - 2010
This study uses an ethnographic approach (participant observation in conjunction with indepth group and individual inte...
Hayes Mabweazara | Director of Studies: Prof Chris Atton | Second Supervisor: Prof Alistair Duff

1995 - 1998
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Alistair Duff Interviewed: "Coronavirus, the Information Age & 1984!"

8 June 2020
The Asia Scotland Institute has released a vidcast with Professor Alistair Duff, Professor of Information Policy at Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh. Professor Duff addresses the extent to which...

Prof Al Duff Featured in Sunday Express

5 October 2019
A revolt is needed to protect our privacy, leading professor claims Professor Alistair Duff insists the rise of technology such as facial recognition (FRT), CCTV and smart devices is robbing us of ou...

Expert Testimony to Scottish Parliament

30 September 2019
Prof Al Duff appeared as an expert witness before the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee. Testifying on behalf of privacy pressure group NO2ID Edinburgh, he answered MSP question about the bill f...

Alistair Duff Quoted on 'Punk Energy" of ePundits

24 March 2019
School of Arts and Creative Industries professor interviewed by Scotland on Sunday on rising power of new media. Political bloggers, referred to as ePundits, have brought punk energy to politics, alth...

Prof Alistair Duff Speaks at Holyrood FoI 2017 Conference

6 December 2017
SACI professor of information policy Alistair Duff was invited onto the afternoon panel at the annual Freedom of Information Conference run by Holyrood events. The other panellists were Alastair Brian...

Centre for Social Informatics contribute nine papers to i3 2017

26 June 2017
Staff and research students from the Centre for Social Informatics presented nine papers at Information: interactions and impact (i3) in June 2017.