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Rethinking e-Government Research: The ‘ideology-artefact complex’ (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006). Rethinking e-Government Research: The ‘ideology-artefact complex’. In R. Suomi, R. Cabral, J. F. Hampe, & A. Heikkila (Eds.), Project E-Society: Building Bricks. IFIP International Federation for Information Process

The authors present a framework for e-government research that draws heavily on Iacono and Kling’s work on computerization movements. They build on this work by appropriating cognate studies of organizational informatics by Kling and his colleagues,... Read More about Rethinking e-Government Research: The ‘ideology-artefact complex’.

Initiating e-Participation Through a Knowledge Working Network (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasmussen, L., Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006). Initiating e-Participation Through a Knowledge Working Network. In R. Suomi, R. Cabral, J. F. Hampe, A. Heikkila, & J. Jarvelainen (Eds.), Project E-Society: Building Bricks. IFIP International Federation

The authors present a study of e-participation within a public sector agency (PSA), where a number of knowledge management initiatives have been introduced since the inception of the UK 'Modernising government' programme of 1999. The agency has attem... Read More about Initiating e-Participation Through a Knowledge Working Network.

The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006). The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-37876-3_19

The authors discuss eGovernment as a computerization movement, and present a case study of a small project that was part of a modernising government initiative in a UK municipality. The case is analysed by means of an analytic construct, the technolo... Read More about The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry..

Inclusion or alienation? computer literacy in a group of older people. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., Turner, P., & Van de Walle, G. (2006, July). Inclusion or alienation? computer literacy in a group of older people. Paper presented at IFIP 8.2 Working Conference on Social Exclusion--Societal and Organisational Implications for Information

Computerization movements as a frame for E-Government studies. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2005, January). Computerization movements as a frame for E-Government studies. Paper presented at Social Informatics Workshop: Extending the Contributions of Professor Rob Kling to the Analysis of Computerization Movements

Talking about computers among a group of older people. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., Turner, P., & Van de Walle, G. (2004). Talking about computers among a group of older people. In Proceedings Second International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Care and involvement: a classification of user experience. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., Davenport, E., & Turner, S. (2004). Care and involvement: a classification of user experience. In P. Turner, E. Davenport, & S. Turner (Eds.), Second Workshop on Space, Spatiality and Technologies

Familiarity as changing perception. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., Davenport, E., & Van de Walle, G. (2004). Familiarity as changing perception. In D. J. Reed, G. Baxter, & M. Blythe (Eds.), Twelfth European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (171-179)

A social shaping perspective on an e-Governmental system(ic) failure. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2004). A social shaping perspective on an e-Governmental system(ic) failure. In R. Traunmüller (Ed.), Electronic Government (186-193). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30078-6_31

The paper that follows is concerned with the communities of interest (or actor networks) and communities of practice that articulate the delivery of e-government services, and with the discourse formations that shape the delivery of e-government serv... Read More about A social shaping perspective on an e-Governmental system(ic) failure..

Innovation and hybrid genres: disturbing social rhythm in legal practice. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horton, K., & Davenport, E. (2004). Innovation and hybrid genres: disturbing social rhythm in legal practice.

This paper explores the non-adoption of an innovation via the concept of hybrid genres, that is digital genres that emerge from a non-digital material precedent. As instances of innovation these are often resisted because they disturb the order of ac... Read More about Innovation and hybrid genres: disturbing social rhythm in legal practice..

The phenomenology of familiarity. (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Van de Walle, G., Turner, P., & Davenport, E. (2003). The phenomenology of familiarity. In INTERACT 2003 - Bringing the Bits togETHer

Organisational learning: an investigation of response to rapid change in a traditional environment. (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buckner, K., & Davenport, E. (2003). Organisational learning: an investigation of response to rapid change in a traditional environment.

This paper is a case study of 'collective' HCI in a 'top-down' systems project - a very large computing center in a new university in the United Kingdom. The authors present the findings of a small empirical study of computer supported teaching and l... Read More about Organisational learning: an investigation of response to rapid change in a traditional environment..

Teaching and learning in the VLCC: actions, reactions and emerging practice in a very large computing centre. (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buckner, K., & Davenport, E. (2002). Teaching and learning in the VLCC: actions, reactions and emerging practice in a very large computing centre. In S. Bagnara, S. Pozzi, A. Rizzo, & P. Wright (Eds.), 11th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (355

What happens to human computer interaction when the walls of a physical teaching laboratory are removed? We present the case of a very large (and new) computing centre (VLCC) in a technical university in Central Scotland. In this large multi-user... Read More about Teaching and learning in the VLCC: actions, reactions and emerging practice in a very large computing centre..

New knowledge and micro-level online organization: 'communities of practice' as a development framework (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Hall, H. (2002). New knowledge and micro-level online organization: 'communities of practice' as a development framework. In R. Sprague (Ed.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. https://doi.

The role of communities of practice in knowledge creation is recognized in a number of contexts. The authors take a socio-technical perspective and identify four characteristics of such communities: situated learning, situated action, distributed cog... Read More about New knowledge and micro-level online organization: 'communities of practice' as a development framework.

Consolidating knowledge for aggregated enterprise in tourism SMEs. (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Taylor, K. (2001). Consolidating knowledge for aggregated enterprise in tourism SMEs. In D. G. Campbell (Ed.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (217-226)

Localisation, globalisation, and SMEs in European tourism: the ‘virtual enterprise model of intervention’. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (2000). Localisation, globalisation, and SMEs in European tourism: the ‘virtual enterprise model of intervention’. In Proceedings of ASIS 2000, Technical Papers Volume (309-319)

Discussion of the effect of globalization on SMEs (small and medium enterprises) in Europe focuses on a case study of a current European Commission (EC) project, Net Quality, which is based on the virtual enterprise as an intervention model that may... Read More about Localisation, globalisation, and SMEs in European tourism: the ‘virtual enterprise model of intervention’..