Women’s studies: bibliometric and content analysis of the formative years
Journal Article
Cronin, B., Davenport, E., & Martinson, A. (1997)
Women’s studies: bibliometric and content analysis of the formative years. Journal of Documentation, 53(2), 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000007196
Women‘s studies has emerged as a recognised academic specialty in recent years. We explored the social structure of the field by analysing bibliometrically all scholarly artic...
Multiculturalism with Chinese characteristics
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2012)
Multiculturalism with Chinese characteristics. In L. Hernandez (Ed.), China and the West : encounters with the other in culture, arts, politics and everyday life, 73-92. Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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The normative crisis of the information society.
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2008)
The normative crisis of the information society. Cyberpsychology, 2,
The information society thesis, as a set of sociological propositions pertaining to a range of advanced nations, is now widely accepted. Attention, therefore, should increasin...
Social Engineering in the Information Age
Journal Article
Duff, A. S. (2004)
Social Engineering in the Information Age. Information Society, 21(1), 67-71. doi:10.1080/01972240590895937
This article explores the relevance of social engineering for the
postindustrial epoch. The concept of social engineering has been
dormant in recent years, stained by the beha...
The Rawls-Tawney theorem and the digital divide in postindustrial society
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2011)
The Rawls-Tawney theorem and the digital divide in postindustrial society. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62, 604-612. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21470
The digital divide continues to challenge political and academic circles worldwide. A range of policy solutions is briefly evaluated, from laissez-faire on the right to “arith...
Smart cities: the state-of-the-art and governance challenge
Journal Article
Deakin, M. (2014)
Smart cities: the state-of-the-art and governance challenge. Triple Helix, 1, Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40604-014-0007-9
Reflecting on the governance of smart cities, the state-of-the-art this paper advances offers a critique of recent city ranking and future Internet accounts of their developme...
The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry.
Conference Proceeding
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006)
The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-37876-3_19
The authors discuss eGovernment as a computerization movement, and present a case study of a small project that was part of a modernising government initiative in a UK municip...
Local Worlds of Marketization: Employment Policies in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom compared.
Journal Article
Zimmermann, K., Aurich, P., Graziano, P. R., & Fuertes, V. (2014)
Local Worlds of Marketization: Employment Policies in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom compared. Social Policy and Administration, 48, 127-148
The majority of the European countries have experienced a turn towards activation policies during the last two decades (Serrano Pascual and Magnusson 2007; van Berkel and Borg...
The role of multi-disciplinary voluntary organisations in modern industrial and socio-technical history.
Book
Wigan, M. (1999)
The role of multi-disciplinary voluntary organisations in modern industrial and socio-technical history. In P. Thorne, & D. McCann (Eds.), The last of the first: CSIRAC Australia's first computer, 151-157. University of Melbourne
Computers and information processing have, in the course of two generations, moved from being a highly specialised and largely secret technology to powering a fundamental empo...
Testing the expert based weights used in the UK’s Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) against three preference-based methods
Journal Article
Watson, V., Dibben, C., Cox, M., Atherton, I., Sutton, M., & Ryan, M. (2019)
Testing the expert based weights used in the UK’s Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) against three preference-based methods. Social Indicators Research, 144(3), 1055-1074. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-018-02054-z
The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), used widely in England, is an important tool for social need and inequality identification. It summarises deprivation across seven dim...