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- Talking to imagined citizens: Why share information when no-one talks back?
- Community representatives, information channels and citizen democratic engagement
- Keep up with my current research
- Community representatives and online communication
- Lurking and what leaders know about their invisible audience
- Information literacy to support democratic engagement
- Hear from postgraduate MSc Business Information Technology students
- A modest proposal… for the ECI
- Risks, controls & incident handling, and why they matter
- What can TOE say about information security?
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Category Archives: research
Community representatives, information channels and citizen democratic engagement
Here’s a link to something I co-authored with Hazel Hall and Bruce Ryan: a paper which explores how elected (yet unpaid) community councillors in Scotland exploit information channels for democratic engagement with the citizens that they represent. We demonstrate that … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-participation, Information behaviour, paper, research, UK
Tagged activity theory, Community Councils, Information literacy, scotland
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15 Jun 2017
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Community representatives and online communication
In previous research, we have observed the poor record of online engagement of community councils in Scotland, though I doubt this is issue is restricted only to this context. With some notable exceptions, Community Council online presences are characterised by … Continue reading
Posted in e-participation, Information behaviour, research
Tagged communication, community, Community Councils, CoP, Information literacy, lurkers, research
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Lurking and what leaders know about their invisible audience
Let’s talk about something obvious: Leaders (for instance community councillors) share information online but the paradox is, that they often don’t get a visible response. Why do they do it then? What are their expectations of how the information they … Continue reading
Posted in e-participation, Information behaviour, research, UK
Tagged community, Community Councils, Information literacy, lurkers, scotland, social media
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What can TOE say about information security?
In which I continue to argue that information security should be explicitly mapped to all levels of the T-O-E technology adoption model. Continue reading
Posted in Methodologies, research, Security
Tagged adoption, cybersecurity, information security, InfoSec, research
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