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Social Engineering in the Information Age (2005)
Journal Article
Duff, A. S. (2005). Social Engineering in the Information Age. Information Society, 21(1), 67-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972240590895937

This article explores the relevance of social engineering for the postindustrial epoch. The concept of social engineering has been dormant in recent years, stained by the behavior of police states in the 20th century. Yet stripped of its excesses,... Read More about Social Engineering in the Information Age.

The Past, Present, and Future of Information Policy: Towards a normative theory of the information society (2004)
Journal Article
Duff, A. S. (2004). The Past, Present, and Future of Information Policy: Towards a normative theory of the information society. Information, Communication and Society, 7(1), 69-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118042000208906

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'. Nevertheless, there is widespread confusion over its meaning and purpose.... Read More about The Past, Present, and Future of Information Policy: Towards a normative theory of the information society.

The sickness of an information society: R.H.Tawney and the post-industrial condition. (2004)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2004). The sickness of an information society: R.H.Tawney and the post-industrial condition. Information, Communication and Society, 7(3), 403-422. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118042000284632

R. H. Tawney is frequently cited as one of the most distinguished social theorists of the twentieth century, and his position in the British school of ethical, democratic socialism is assured. This paper revisits that contribution for the so-called p... Read More about The sickness of an information society: R.H.Tawney and the post-industrial condition..

Four “e”pochs: the story of informatization (2003)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2003). Four “e”pochs: the story of informatization. Library Review, 52(2), 58-64. https://doi.org/10.1108/00242530310462125

Informatization is a term of Japanese provenance denoting major systemic change resulting from the application of information technology. At the macro (economic and sociological) level, authors such as Fritz Machlup and Daniel Bell have outlined the... Read More about Four “e”pochs: the story of informatization.

Social democracy and information media policy. (2003)
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2003). Social democracy and information media policy. In B. Rockenbach, T. Mendina, & S. Almagno (Eds.), Ethics and Electronic Information: A Festschrift for Stephen Almagno, 154-165. McFarland & Co

Social welfare aspects of information with special reference to news. (2003)
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 caveats, be taken as a premise. Essentially empirical or predictive, this infl... Read More about Social welfare aspects of information with special reference to news..

The status of information society studies in the information science curriculum. (2002)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2002). The status of information society studies in the information science curriculum. Library Review, 51(3/4), 139-148. https://doi.org/10.1108/00242530210420997

Argues for a central role for information society studies in degree programmes. Information society studies is an interdisciplinary specialism devoted to examination of the macrolevel role of information flows and technologies. The views of informati... Read More about The status of information society studies in the information science curriculum..

Social democracy and information media policy (2001)
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

On the present state of information society studies. (2001)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2001). On the present state of information society studies. Education for Information, 19, (231-244). ISSN 0167-8329

The paper assesses the present condition of the emerging specialism. Topics include the information economy; information technology; the information explosion; the Japanese version of information society; information society as social democracy; soci... Read More about On the present state of information society studies..

Daniel Bell’s theory of the information society (1998)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (1998). Daniel Bell’s theory of the information society. Journal of Information Science, 24(6), 373-393. https://doi.org/10.1177/016555159802400601

Daniel 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.

Some post-war models of the information chain (1997)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (1997). Some post-war models of the information chain. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 29(4), 179-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/096100069702900402

Reviews the literature of the information chain, analogous to ecology’s food chain, taking the Royal Society Scientific Information Conference, 1948, as the seminal point. Describes eight successive models of the information chain each incorporating... Read More about Some post-war models of the information chain.