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information society
Areas of Expertise
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.
Projects
£1,350 has been awarded for a scholarly study of relevance of the ideas of US columnist Lippmann for the computer age. The funding, from Carnegie, is to support a week with the Lippmann papers housed at Yale University Library.
The HUWY project aims to support young people’s eParticipation in policies about the Internet and its governance, through a distributed discussion. HUWY partners provide information, support and organise influential audiences for young people’s suggestions.
A one day event to: Bring people and organisations together and establish their current skills and needs.Share knowledge about current and future e-participation projects and opportunities; establish common and complementary areas of interest.Facilitate partner matching for future initiatives...
The ITC has been working with the Scottish Parliament since 1999, researching the design and management of an electronic petitioning system for the Public Petitions Committee of the Parliament. We have had a formal contract with The Scottish Parliament from November 2002 to 2005 to provide a hosted...
In February 2004 the ITC received funding from the Scottish Executive to investigate how technology could be developed to help regenerate democracy at the local community level. Community councils are at the heart of local government in Scotland.
Under the ODPM National Local eDemocracy Project (www.e-dem.info), the ITC is working with the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and Bristol City Council to investigate how local authorities can support active participation through e-petitioning.
The ITC is creating on-line materials and carrying out social research for the Ur'say channel. This includes developing new action-research models for on-line facilitation and moderation of on-line discussion fora and exploring the development of democratic participation and consultation models...
The main objective of the project is to help public authority employees to design, deliver and maintain electronic services. They will do this through use of the SmartGov software platform that is being developed in the project.
The aim of RiLIES1 was to explore the impact of funded research projects on actual library practice, including the extent to which research output influences services delivery. http://lisresearch.org/rilies-project/ (A follow-on project - RiLIES2 - used the findings from RiLIES1 to build resources...
The project aimed to establish a communication and information management network to increase democratic engagement in the Western Balkans. The network was managed by the National News Agencies in Albania, Macedonia and Serbia as they began to take on new roles during accession to the EU.
ITC are working with Highland Youth Voice (a democratically elected assembly for young people in the Highland Region) in the development of a suite of e-democracy tools for their website. The current phase of this projects runs from 2005 to 2007 and seeks to expand use and efficacy of the website:...
ITC are working with the Petitions Committee of the German Bundestag to research and report on e-engagement using the e-Petitioner tool in order to support their Public Petitions agenda. We have taken our existing e-Petitioner System, and redesigned it in collaboration with their Online Services...
How can Local Authorities be sure that eDemocracy works? How can they be sure that they are using the right e-enabled tool for the job and that the use of these tools will result in effective input to the democratic process? And what about citizens?
The ITC is being funded by the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department (SEERAD) to research appropriate tools and techniques to engage young people in their continuing dialogue on radioactive waste management.
The ITC's role is to identify what officials and the public require and to evaluate the likely impact of the EDEN software toolkit. This toolkit is a set of web-based applications that use Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology.
Added Value Access to New Technologies and services on the Internet (IST-2000-28585). AVANTI aims to use digital avatars in public service provision, with the objective of increasing the acceptability of technology for the use of citizens.
Members
Lecturer in Strategy, Operations and Innovation
j.auernhammer@napier.ac.uk
+44 131 455 4718
Research Student (previously Senior Research Fellow)
e.taylor-smith@napier.ac.uk
+44 131 455 2392
Publications
Irving, C. (2012). Engaging and influencing policy and the curriculum – the Scottish Information Literacy Project experience. In: Rankin, C., Brock, A. (Eds.) Library services for children and young people: Challenges and opportunities in the digital age. London, UK: Facet.
Kimpeler, S., Lindner, R., Taylor-Smith, E., Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P. (2012, July 2012). Supporting young people's political participation through distributed discussion - lessons obtained from an EU pilot. Paper presented at IPSA World Congress, Madrid, Spain.
Taylor-Smith, E., Kimpeler, S., Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P. (2012). Distributed discussion: an integrated eParticipation model for engaging young people in technology policy. In: Charalabidis, Y., Koussouris, S. (Eds.) Empowering Open and Collaborative Governance. (pp. 181-198). Berlin Heidelberg.
Taylor-Smith, E. (2012). Participation Spaces. In: Scholl, H., Flak, L., Janssen, M., Macintosh, A., Sæbø, ., Tambouris, E., Moe, C., Wimmer, M. (Eds.) Proceedings of Fourth international conference on eParticipation (ePart 2012). (pp. 223-230). Kristiansand, Norway: Trauner.
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. (2010). Daniel Bell's theory of the information society. In: Smart, B. (Ed.) Post-Industrial Society, Vol. III. (pp. 201-232). Sage.
Duff, A. (2010). The age of access? Information policy and social progress. In: Negrine, R. (Ed.) Communications Policy: Theories and Issues. (pp. 49-64). London: Palgrave Publishers.
Duff, A. (2010, March 17). The Holy Grail of a viable press. The Journal.
Duff, A. (2010). The Information Society. In: Priest, S. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication, 1. (pp. 397-400). New York: Sage.
Gibson, G., McCusker, P., Taylor-Smith, E. (2010, June). Online Tools and their Impact on Young People. Paper presented at ECEG 2010 10th European Conference on eGovernment, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Taylor-Smith, E. (2010, December). eParticipation to support the Information Society. Paper presented at ePractice workshop on eParticipation, European Commission, Brussels.
Taylor-Smith, E., Lindner, R. (2010). Social networking tools supporting constructive involvement throughout the policy-cycle. In: Prosser, P. (Ed.) Proceedings of EDEM 2010 - Conference on Electronic Democracy, May 7-8, 2010, Danube-University Krems, Austria. Vienna, Austria: Austrian Computer Society.
Duff, A. (2009). Rethinking the digital divide: from philanthropy to isonomia. In: New Media & Information: Convergences & Divergences International Conference 2009, Panteion University, Athens.
Duff, A. (2009). The Rawls-Tawney theorem and the political economy of cyberspace. Paper presented at Cyberspace 2009, 7th Annual Conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
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.
Taylor-Smith, E., Buckner, K. (2009). Designing e-Participation with Balkan journalists. JeDEM: eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 1(1).
Taylor-Smith, E., Lindner, R. (2009). Using Social Networking Tools to Promote eParticipation Initiatives. In: Prosser, A., Parycek, P. (Eds.) Proceedings of EDEM 2009 - Conference on Electronic Democracy, September 7-8, 2009, Vienna. (pp. 115 -121). Vienna: Austrian Computer Society.
Duff, A. (2008). Documentation and utopia: Fabian anticipations of the information society. In: Rayward, B. (Ed.) European Modernism and the Information Society. (pp. 185-199). Ashgate.
Duff, A. (2008). Information liberation? The relations of freedom and knowledge in social-democratic thought. In: Stehr, N. (Ed.) Knowledge and Democracy: a 21st Century Perspective. (pp. 199-215). New Brunswick [NJ]: Transaction Publishers.
Duff, A. (2008). Powers in the land? British political columnists in the information era. Journalism Practice, 2(2), 231-245.
Duff, A. (2008). R. H. Tawney. In: Macmillan International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences , 8. (pp. 271-272). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.
Duff, A. (2008). The European information society: scholarly and official perspectives. Journal of the Japan Society of Information and Communication Research, 26 (3), 29-31.
Duff, A. (2008). The normative crisis of the information society. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace , 2(1), Article 3.
Taylor-Smith, E., Buckner, K. (2008). Designing e-Participation with Balkan Journalists v1. In: Parycek, P., Prosser, A. (Eds.) EDem08 E-Democracy Conference, 29th – 30th September 2008, Danube University Krems, Austria. (pp. 135 - 144). Vienna: Austrian Computer Society.
Smith, E., Macintosh, A., Whyte, A. (2006). Organised use of e-democracy tools for young people. In: Wimmer, M., Scholl, H., Gronlund, A., Anderson, K. (Eds.) Electronic Government: Communications of the Fifth International EGOV Conference 2006. (pp. 260-267). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.
Macintosh, A., Smith, E., Whyte, A. (2005). E-Consultation, Controversy and Youth. In: Cunningham, P., Cunningham, M. (Eds.) Innovation and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Application, Case Studies;. (pp. 730-737). Slovenia: IOS Press.
Masters, Z., Macintosh, A., Smith, E. (2004). Young People and E-Democracy: Creating a Culture of Participation. In: Proceedings of Third International Conference in E-Government, EGOV 2004. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.
Macintosh, A., Robson, E., Smith, E., Whyte, A. (2003). Electronic Democracy and Young People. Social Science Computer Review, 21(1), 43-54.
Smith, E., Macintosh, A., Whyte, A. (2003). Culture and context in an online voting system for young people. In: Duquenoy, P., Fischer-Hubner, S., Hovast, J., Zuccato, A. (Eds.) IFIP Summer School: 'Risks and Challenges of the Network Society'. Karlstad, Sweden.
Smith, E., Macintosh, A. (2003). E-voting: the powerful symbol of e-democracy. In: DEXA 2003, the 2nd International Conference on Electronic Government - EGOV 2003. Prague, Czech Republic: DEXA.
Whyte, A. (2003, September 2003). Conversations with Non-Human Actors in E-Democracy. Paper presented at ECSCW e-Democracy Workshop, Helsinki, Finland.
Macintosh, A., Smith, E. (2002). Citizen Participation in Public Affairs. In: Traunmuller, R., Lenk, K. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (pp. 256-264). Springer-Verlag.
Smith, E., Macintosh, A., Whyte, A. (2002). Invisibility Vs Transparency. In: 16th British HCI Conference London, 2 (2 ed.). (pp. 166-70). London, UK.
