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Social Media by Proxy: how older adults work within their ‘social networks’ to engage with social media (2023)
Journal Article
Webster, G., & Ryan, F. (2023). Social Media by Proxy: how older adults work within their ‘social networks’ to engage with social media. Information Research, 28(1), 50-77

Introduction. Social media use is at an all-time high, and the adoption of online tools by older adults is increasing. This paper reports an exploratory qualitative study investigating the ways in which older adults are supported by social media prox... Read More about Social Media by Proxy: how older adults work within their ‘social networks’ to engage with social media.

From transparency to accountability of intelligent systems: Moving beyond aspirations (2022)
Journal Article
Williams, R., Cloete, R., Cobbe, J., Cottrill, C., Edwards, P., Markovic, M., Naja, I., Ryan, F., Singh, J., & Pang, W. (2022). From transparency to accountability of intelligent systems: Moving beyond aspirations. Data & Policy, 4, Article e7. https://doi.org/10.1017/dap.2021.37

A number of governmental and nongovernmental organizations have made significant efforts to encourage the development of artificial intelligence in line with a series of aspirational concepts such as transparency, interpretability, explainability, an... Read More about From transparency to accountability of intelligent systems: Moving beyond aspirations.

Workshop report for DISIPRAC: Digital identity security information practices of citizens (March 2020) (2020)
Report
Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, F. (2020). Workshop report for DISIPRAC: Digital identity security information practices of citizens (March 2020). Edinburgh: Edinburgh Napier University

The report reflects the outcome of a workshop with practitioners held on 27 February 2020. It is aimed at practitioners and policy makers, and gives some evidence of a number of issues around management of digital identities (including a few scenario... Read More about Workshop report for DISIPRAC: Digital identity security information practices of citizens (March 2020).

Reputation management in a digital world: The role of online information in the building, management, and evaluation of personal reputations (2019)
Thesis
Ryan, F. V. C. Reputation management in a digital world: The role of online information in the building, management, and evaluation of personal reputations. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2090098

This work is concerned with the role of online information in the building, management, and evaluation of personal reputations. The main contributions of the research relate to: (1) the means by which people evaluate the personal reputations of other... Read More about Reputation management in a digital world: The role of online information in the building, management, and evaluation of personal reputations.

Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, F., Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Lawson, A. (2019, June). Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms. Paper presented at Conceptions of Library and Information Science 10 (CoLIS10), Ljubjana, Slovenia

Introduction. The broad theme of this paper is the use of information to build, manage and evaluate personal reputations. It reports the findings of a study that considered the extent to which social media users replicate in online environments the e... Read More about Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms.

Blurred reputations: Managing professional and private information online (2018)
Journal Article
Ryan, F. V., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2020). Blurred reputations: Managing professional and private information online. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 52(1), 16-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000618769977

Results are reported from a study that investigated patterns of information behaviour and use as related to personal reputation building and management in online environments. An everyday life information seeking (ELIS) perspective was adopted. Data... Read More about Blurred reputations: Managing professional and private information online.

Managing and evaluating personal reputations on the basis of information shared on social media: a Generation X perspective.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, F., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2016, September). Managing and evaluating personal reputations on the basis of information shared on social media: a Generation X perspective. Presented at ISIC: the information behaviour conference, Zadar, Croatia

Introduction. The means by which individuals evaluate the personal reputations of others, and manage their own personal reputations, as determined by information shared on social media platforms, is investigated from an information science perspectiv... Read More about Managing and evaluating personal reputations on the basis of information shared on social media: a Generation X perspective..

Personal online reputation: the development of an approach to investigate how personal reputation is evaluated and managed in online environments.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, F., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2016, January). Personal online reputation: the development of an approach to investigate how personal reputation is evaluated and managed in online environments. Presented at IDIMC 2016 - Exploring our digital shadow: from data to intelligence

The main theme of the paper is the development of a framework to investigate how online information is used in the creation, building, and evaluation of personal reputations. (Here the term “personal reputation” refers to the reputation of private in... Read More about Personal online reputation: the development of an approach to investigate how personal reputation is evaluated and managed in online environments..

Assessing the available and accessible evidence: how personal reputations are determined and managed online.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, F., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2015, June). Assessing the available and accessible evidence: how personal reputations are determined and managed online. Paper presented at Information: interactions and impact (i3) 2015

This paper is concerned with how online information contributes to the determination of personal reputations. The term “personal reputation” in this context means the reputation of private individuals, rather than corporate identity and brand. The pa... Read More about Assessing the available and accessible evidence: how personal reputations are determined and managed online..