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Alistair S. Duff
Researcher at Edinburgh Napier University
Publications - 53
Citations - 819
Alistair S. Duff is an academic researcher from Edinburgh Napier University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Information society & Social change. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 52 publications receiving 782 citations.
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The Past, Present, and Future of Information Policy: Towards a normative theory of the information society
TL;DR: The profile of information policy in academic and policy-making circles has been rising in recent decades, a function, presumably, of the expansion of an information society as discussed by the authors. Nevertheless, there is widespread confusion over its meaning and purpose.
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Information Society Studies
TL;DR: In this article, Alistair Duff presents the argument that there are in reality several "information society theses", each with its own disciplinary origin and tradition, and brings together the various schools and examines them systematically in a comparative setting.
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From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World
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Some post-war models of the information chain
TL;DR: Eight successive models of the information chain each incorporating contemporary thoughts and experiences are described, analogous to ecology's food chain, taking the Royal Society Scientific Information Conference, 1948, as the seminal point.
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Monitoring information security risks within health care
TL;DR: An overview of the possible socio-technical risks that a panel of experts expect to materialise in health care organisations in the near future, based on the philosophy that information security risk monitoring should include human and societal factors.