Computopia Revisited: Yoneji Masuda’s Realistic Utopianism
Journal Article
Duff, A., & Ito, Y. (2020)
Computopia Revisited: Yoneji Masuda’s Realistic Utopianism. Keio communication review, 42(3), 53-74
Utopianism has always had a bad press. The whole genre, not least classics such as Thomas More’s Utopia (More, 1516), Robert Owen’s New View of Society (Owen, 1813), and Willi...
Privacy Fundamentalism: An Essay on Social Responsibility
Journal Article
Duff, A. S. (2020)
Privacy Fundamentalism: An Essay on Social Responsibility. Journal of Information Ethics, 29(1), 13-29
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Bleeding Edge, Neo-Liberalism, and the 9/11 Novel.
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2019)
Bleeding Edge, Neo-Liberalism, and the 9/11 Novel. Canadian Review of American Studies, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.3138/cras.2017.028
This article argues that Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge (2013)
can be read within the canon of 9/11 novels in unexpected and productive ways. Its rich, intertwined narrative o...
'The Rest is History': Writing a History of Music Technologies and their Users
Presentation / Conference
Harkins, P. (2017, March)
'The Rest is History': Writing a History of Music Technologies and their Users. Presented at Burgundy School of Business Research Seminar, University of Burgundy, Dijon
The socio-musical practice of sampling is closely associated with the re-use of pre-existing sound recordings and the technological processes of looping. These practices, base...
Palimpsest: Improving assisted curation of loco-specific literature
Journal Article
Alex, B., Grover, C., Oberlander, J., Thomson, T., Anderson, M., Loxley, J., …Zhou, K. (2016)
Palimpsest: Improving assisted curation of loco-specific literature. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 32(1), 4-16. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqw050
Text mining and information visualisation techniques applied to large-scale historical and literary document collections have enabled new types of humanities research. The ass...
Lit Long: Edinburgh
Digital Artefact
Loxley, J., Oberlander, J., Reid, J., Quigley, A., Anderson, M., Alex, B., …Karaiskos, V. (2015)
Lit Long: Edinburgh
Lit Long: Edinburgh is a very large database of place-name mentions in around 550 books that use Edinburgh as a setting. We have extracted the text surrounding each mention an...
Social welfare aspects of information with special reference to news.
Conference Proceeding
Duff, A. (2003)
Social welfare aspects of information with special reference to news. In P. Isaias, & A. Palma dos Reis (Eds.), Proceedings of the IADIS (International Association for Development of the Information Society) International Conference on e-Society, 773-776
The information society thesis, according to which economically advanced nations are undergoing transformation into post-industrial, information-based societies, can, with cav...
Social democracy and information media policy
Presentation / Conference
Duff, A. (2001, November)
Social democracy and information media policy. Paper presented at School of Information and Media, School of Information and Media, Robert Gordon University