The information society.
(2010)
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2010). The information society. In S. H. Priest (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication (397-400). SAGE Publications
All Outputs (83)
Daniel Bell's theory of the information society. (2010)
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2010). Daniel Bell's theory of the information society. In B. Smart (Ed.), Post-Industrial Society (201-232). SAGE PublicationsDaniel Bell is recognised to be the foremost writer on the information society. The paper expounds his writings in detail, showing their development from the 1960s to the 1990s. It is argued that his position has always contained three distinguishabl... Read More about Daniel Bell's theory of the information society..
The age of access? Information policy and social progress. (2010)
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2010). The age of access? Information policy and social progress. In S. Papathanassopoulos, & R. Negrine (Eds.), Communications Policy: Theories and Issues (49-64). Palgrave Publishers
The Holy Grail of a viable press. (2010)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2010). The Holy Grail of a viable press. The Journal, 33,Opinion article analysing problems facing mass media in information age.
New media & information: convergences & divergences (CD Rom) (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Duff, A. (2009). New media & information: convergences & divergences (CD Rom). In New Media & Information: Convergences & Divergences
Rethinking the digital divide: from philanthropy to isonomia.. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Duff, A. (2009). Rethinking the digital divide: from philanthropy to isonomia..The digital divide has been, at least until very recently, a major theme in policy as well as interdisciplinary academic circles across the world, as well as at a collective global level, as attested by the World Summit on the Information Society. Nu... Read More about Rethinking the digital divide: from philanthropy to isonomia...
The Rawls-Tawney theorem and the political economy of cyberspace. (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Duff, A. (2009, January). The Rawls-Tawney theorem and the political economy of cyberspace. Paper presented at Cyberspace 2009, 7th Annual Conference
R. H. Tawney. (2008)
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2007). R. H. Tawney. In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 271-272. Macmillan Reference USA
The European information society: scholarly and official perspectives. (2008)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2007). The European information society: scholarly and official perspectives. 880-01 Jōhō Tsūshin Gakkai shi, 26, (29-31). ISSN 0289-4513
The normative crisis of the information society. (2008)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2008). The normative crisis of the information society. Cyberpsychology, 2,The information society thesis, as a set of sociological propositions pertaining to a range of advanced nations, is now widely accepted. Attention, therefore, should increasingly be focused upon the normative dimensions of that thesis. The article cl... Read More about The normative crisis of the information society..
Ethical messages: R H. Tawney confronts the information age. (2008)
Book Chapter
Duff, A., & Melville, R. (2008). Ethical messages: R H. Tawney confronts the information age. In R. Keeble (Ed.), Communication Ethics Today, 125-133. Troubador PublishingThis chapter sets ethical thinker R H Tawney in context as a dissident son of the British establishment. We explore the roots of his politics in philosophical idealism and religious socialism, before translating his famous critiques of acquisitivenes... Read More about Ethical messages: R H. Tawney confronts the information age..
The European information society. (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Duff, A. (2008, November). The European information society. Paper presented at 25th Anniversary Conference of the Japan Society of Information and Communication Research, Tokyo, Japan
Information liberation? The relations of freedom and knowledge in social-democratic thought. (2008)
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2008). Information liberation? The relations of freedom and knowledge in social-democratic thought. In N. Stehr (Ed.), Knowledge and Democracy: a 21st Century Perspective, 199-215. Transaction Publishers
Powers in the Land? (2008)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2008). Powers in the Land?. Journalism Practice, 2, 230-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512780801999386The expansion of opinion is one of the key developments in the British press, as elsewhere. The article analyses the role of one of the most important types of commentator, newspaper political columnists, examining their credentials, sources, informa... Read More about Powers in the Land?.
Documentation and utopia: Fabian anticipations of the information society. (2008)
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2008). Documentation and utopia: Fabian anticipations of the information society. In W. B. Rayward (Ed.), European Modernism and the Information Society (185-199). Ashgate Publishing
The information society: research on social aspects of information provision. (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Duff, A. (2007, June). The information society: research on social aspects of information provision
Informatisation: libraries and the exploitation of electronic information services. (2006)
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2006). Informatisation: libraries and the exploitation of electronic information services. In A. Black, & P. Hoare (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland: 1850-2000 (627-638). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521780971.051Modern librarianship has been shaped by many factors, socio-cultural, political, economic and demographic, but there is a strong case – although not necessarily a technologically deterministic one – for the assertion that technological change has bee... Read More about Informatisation: libraries and the exploitation of electronic information services..
Neo-Rawlsian Co-ordinates: Notes on A Theory of Justice for the Information Age. (2006)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2006). Neo-Rawlsian Co-ordinates: Notes on A Theory of Justice for the Information Age. International journal of information ethics, 6, 17-22The ideas of philosopher John Rawls should be appropriated for the information age. A literature review identifies previous contributions in fields such as communication and library and information science. The article postulates the following neo-... Read More about Neo-Rawlsian Co-ordinates: Notes on A Theory of Justice for the Information Age..
‘Laying a Foundation of Fact’: Fabianism and the information society thesis. (2006)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2006). ‘Laying a Foundation of Fact’: Fabianism and the information society thesis. Information, Communication and Society, 9, 515-536. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180600858754This article explores affinities between postindustrialism and modes of thinking characteristic of the Fabian Society, especially in the first half of the twentieth century. In the hands of Daniel Bell and others, the information society thesis postu... Read More about ‘Laying a Foundation of Fact’: Fabianism and the information society thesis..
Information liberation? The dialectic of knowledge and freedom in social-democratic thought. (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Duff, A. (2006, April). Information liberation? The dialectic of knowledge and freedom in social-democratic thought. Paper presented at Worlds of Knowledge and Democracy, Center for the Advanced Study of the Humanities, Essen, Germany