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Internet Technologies & Society
The technologies that help us to organise and share information on the internet are changing the way we live and work. This information society or knowledge economy people affects is in all kinds of new ways – as individuals, groups and organisations.
IIDI researches ways in which these different technologies can be used. This includes using social networking tools to understand customers, share knowledge, to improve efficiency and encourage innovation.
Our work is centred on people and the contexts in which they use (or don’t use) technology. For instance:
- how analysing Facebook or Twitter data can help understand customers and their needs
- how online communities can increase participation in society by helping citizens to connect with one another and government
- the issues raised by maintaining an online identity
- the increasing use of online technologies to deliver education.
The technologies we focus on tend to reflect new or popular ways to share information and interact with other people – for work, social or democratic means. These currently include Web 2.0, blogging and tweeting; social networking sites such as Facebook; and mobile technology.
We work in international teams across academic disciplines and with a wide range of partners: start-ups, established business, parliaments, units of government and Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs). We can also work in partnership with research organisations.
Case Studies 
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How can funded research projects in the domain of library and information science (LIS) influence practice in the UK? What factors increase (or hinder) the impact of research findings on those who deliver library and information services?What can research teams and funders do to maximise the impact...
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Bringing people into policy-making through e-petitioning. To help people set the agenda for parliaments and local councils, so that their concerns are addressed. To create accessible, transparent and effective online processes, that both citizens and policy-makers are happy with.
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For a number of years, there have been numerous online tools which have enabled people to perform some form of self-assessment of particular health conditions. However, on analysis, most of these tools are very generic, and do not provide intuitive questions and options based on previous answers...
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Adopting social computing tools for collaboration in the workplace. The business environment is in a period of evolution with regards to information infrastructures and, as a consequence, levels of adoption of social computing tools vary from organisation to organisation.
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Increase involvement in democracy by using ICT. Find good ways to support young people to discuss Internet problems and improvements. Encourage policy-makers to interact with the resulting ideas.
Projects
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Information Sharing between Domains using Policy Integration and Modelling
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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 the social impact of information and technology and relevant public policy issues, has three...
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The UrbanIxD Cordination Action project will define and consolidate a coherent research community working in the domain of technologically augmented, data-rich urban environments; with particular focus on the human activities, experiences and behaviours
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This IIDI project, led by Alistair Lawson, involves research into and initial development of support systems and software applications for Deiseal Ltd in relation to Ùlpan (Gaelic Language Learning for Adults). The project is funded by Deiseal Ltd who have in turn have received funding from Bòrd na...
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Scottish Woodlands Ltd is Scotland's leading independent full-service forest management company. It is also the second largest operator in the UK, with a network of 17 offices operating throughout Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Contact
p.cruickshank@napier.ac.uk
+44 (0)131 455 2309
Room C46
Merchiston Campus
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
Selected Publications
Duff, A. (2011). The Rawls-Tawney Theorem and the Digital Divide in Postindustrial Society. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 62(3), 604-612.
Duff, A. (2012). A Normative Theory of the Information Society. London, UK: Routledge.
Hall, H., Widen-Wulff, G. (2008). Social exchange, social capital and information sharing in online environments: lessons from three case studies. Studia Humaniora Ouluensia, 8, 73-86.
Riley, C., Buckner, K., Johnson, G., Benyon, D. (2009). Culture & biometrics: regional differences in the perception of biometric authentication technologies. AI Soc., 24(3), 295-306.
Buckner, K., Cruickshank, P. (2008). Social network analysis as a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of EC funded networks of excellence: the case of DEMO-net. In: Proceedings of the 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-41. (pp. 10 pages). IEEE Computer Society Press.
Hall, H., Widen-Wulff, G., Peterson, L. (2010). Not what you know, nor who you know, but who you know already: examining online information sharing behaviours through the lens of social exchange theory. Libri, 60(2), 117-128.
