Life at the local scale: an alternative perspective on the urban.
Conference Proceeding
Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2015)
Life at the local scale: an alternative perspective on the urban. In Hybrid Cities - data to the peoplehttps://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.3740.2083
The study of cities has risen to the top of research agendas in the last decade, raising the question of how to study something as vast and eclectic as cities. This paper prop...
digiCC workshop outcomes report
Report
Ryan, B. & Cruickshank, P. (2015)
digiCC workshop outcomes report. Edinburgh Napier University: Edinburgh Napier University
A workshop on digital engagement by Community Councils (CCs) was hosted by Edinburgh Napier University on 30 January 2015 to which members from 35 CCs came. Facilitated sessio...
The geographies of community history digital archives in rural Scotland
Journal Article
Beel, D., Wallace, C., Webster, G., & Nguyen, H. (2015)
The geographies of community history digital archives in rural Scotland. Scottish Geographical Journal, 131(3-4), 201-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2014.980839
The CURIOS (Cultural Repositories and Information Systems) project has been working with community heritage groups to co-produce sustainable solutions for the production of he...
Social network analysis and festival cities: an exploration of concepts, literature and methods
Journal Article
Jarman, D., Theodoraki, E., Hall, H., & Ali-Knight, J. (2014)
Social network analysis and festival cities: an exploration of concepts, literature and methods. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 5(3), 311-322. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijefm-11-2013-0034
Social network analysis (SNA) is an under-utilised framework for research into festivals and events. This paper reflects upon the history of SNA, and explores its key concepts...
Needing NoDI (normal democratic information)? The problem of information poverty in post-industrial society
Journal Article
Duff, A. S. (2015)
Needing NoDI (normal democratic information)? The problem of information poverty in post-industrial society. Information, Communication and Society, 18(1), 63-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2014.934389
The paper addresses one of the main paradoxes of post-industrial society: information poverty. While digital divides of various types have been extensively theorized and resea...
Review of Facebook Democracy. The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life by J.Marichal
Journal Article
Taylor-Smith, E. (2013)
Review of Facebook Democracy. The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life by J.Marichal. Information Polity, 18, 367-370. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-130318
Jose Marichal’s investigation into Facebook, as a setting for democracy and potential influence on the public sphere, identifies something special about Facebook that both mak...
Book Review: Mobile Technologies: from Telecommunications to Media.
Journal Article
Smith, C. (2014)
Book Review: Mobile Technologies: from Telecommunications to Media. Telecommunications Policy, 38(1), 119-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2012.11.006
No abstract available. Item discussed - Mobile technologies: From telecommunications to media, Gerard Goggin, Larissa Hjorth, Routledge, New York, USA (2009), 297 pp. includin...
Transformation or continuity? The impact of social media on information: implications for theory and practice.
Presentation / Conference
Cox, A., Francke, H., Haider, J., Hall, H. & Huvila, I. (2012, October)
Transformation or continuity? The impact of social media on information: implications for theory and practice. Paper presented at ASIS&T 2012 Annual Meeting, Baltimore
This panel debates whether the ways in which social media are changing the nature, creation, location, use and sharing of information constitute a transformation or are primar...
Relationship and role transformations in social media environments.
Journal Article
Hall, H. (2011)
Relationship and role transformations in social media environments. Electronic Library, 29(4), 421-428
Based on a keynote paper presented at Internet Librarian International 2010 this article argues that the way in which librarians conceive a number of relationships – between t...
Wild networks: the articulation of feedback and evaluation in a creative inter-disciplinary design studio
Thesis
Joel, S. Wild networks: the articulation of feedback and evaluation in a creative inter-disciplinary design studio. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4578
It is argued that design exists within a collective social network of negotiation, feedback sharing and reflection that is integral to the design process. To encourage this, r...