All Outputs (86)

E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy (2001)
Journal Article
Davenport, B. C. E., Cronin, B., & Davenport, E. (2001). E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy. Information Society, 17(1), 33-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/019722401750067414

Electronic commerce offers immense opportunities to the producers of pornographic products and services. Although this sector generates significant revenues, it is almost invisible in academic literature on the information society and the digital eco... Read More about E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy.

Exploring the e-consumer experience: The case of the virtual economy (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horton, K., Hall, H., Davenport, E., & Rosenbaum, H. (2000, November). Exploring the e-consumer experience: The case of the virtual economy. Presented at 3rd International Conference (IeC2000): Innovation Through Electronic Commerce

Localisation, globalisation, and SMEs in European tourism: the ‘virtual enterprise model of intervention’. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (2000, November). Localisation, globalisation, and SMEs in European tourism: the ‘virtual enterprise model of intervention’. Presented at Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS)

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’..

Knowledge management; semantic drift or conceptual shift? (2000)
Journal Article
Davenport, E., & Cronin, B. (2000). Knowledge management; semantic drift or conceptual shift?. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 41(4), 294-306. https://doi.org/10.2307/40324047

This paper offers an exploration of knowledge management (KM), a concept only partially understood in domains that use the term. Three such domains are described: library and information science (LIS), business administration, and organization theory... Read More about Knowledge management; semantic drift or conceptual shift?.

The citation network as a prototype for representing trust. (2000)
Book Chapter
Davenport, E., & Cronin, B. (2000). The citation network as a prototype for representing trust. In B. Cronin, & H. B. Atkins (Eds.), The Web of knowledge: a Festschrift in honor of Eugene Garfield (517-534). Information Today Inc

Implicit orders: documentary genres and organizational practice. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (1999, October). Implicit orders: documentary genres and organizational practice

Non-contractual trust, design, and human and computer interactions (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marsh, S., Davenport, E., Dibben, M., Friedman, B., March, S., Rosenbaum, H., & Thimbleby, H. (2000, April). Non-contractual trust, design, and human and computer interactions. Presented at CHI '00 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '00

How might trust be a component of human-computer based interaction? There are a number of dimensions involving different combinations of humans, systems and computer agents. Recent studies of trust in the workplace indicate that trust has many attrib... Read More about Non-contractual trust, design, and human and computer interactions.

Narratives of new media in Scottish households: the evolution of a framework of enquiry. (2000)
Journal Article
Davenport, E., Higgins, M., & Somerville, I. (2000). Narratives of new media in Scottish households: the evolution of a framework of enquiry. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 51, 900-912. https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4571%282000%2951%3A103.0.CO%3B2-U

The authors describe a study of the social dynamics of new media in Scottish households. The evolving project drew on dialogues with multiple household members elicited in group conversations. This approach to interviews captured different and confli... Read More about Narratives of new media in Scottish households: the evolution of a framework of enquiry..

Communities of practice as the locus of business process design: bonds, boundaries and trust issues. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Marsh, S. (2000, March). Communities of practice as the locus of business process design: bonds, boundaries and trust issues. Presented at Innovation Management and Systems Engineering: capturing and managing knowledge about the design of business processes. The University of Edinburgh Management School, 23 and 24 March, 2000

A system for organizing situational knowledge in the workplace that is based on the shape of documents. (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., & Rosenbaum, H. (2000, July). A system for organizing situational knowledge in the workplace that is based on the shape of documents. Presented at Dynamism and stability in knowledge organization: Proceedings of the Sixth International ISKO Conference

Knowledge management in higher education. (2000)
Book Chapter
Cronin, B., & Davenport, E. (2000). Knowledge management in higher education. In G. Bernbom (Ed.), Information Alchemy: The Art and Science of Knowledge Management (25-42). Jossey-Bass

Clinical guidelines and the translation of texts into care: overcoming professional conflicts concerning evidence‐based practice (2000)
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2000). Clinical guidelines and the translation of texts into care: overcoming professional conflicts concerning evidence‐based practice. Journal of Documentation, 56(5), 505-519. https://doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000007125

The difficulties of basing healthcare on literary warrant have been explained in different ways: busy practitioners have no time to read extensively, physical access is difficult, and adequate surrogates for texts like indexes, abstracts, systematic... Read More about Clinical guidelines and the translation of texts into care: overcoming professional conflicts concerning evidence‐based practice.

Social intelligence in the age of networks (2000)
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (2000). Social intelligence in the age of networks. Journal of Information Science, 26(3), 145-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/016555150002600304

The author explores the concept of ‘social intelligence’. She
suggests that, in the world of digital commerce, it may be
defined as ‘insight which is based on collective understanding
of work practices’. She offers three scenarios to
support the... Read More about Social intelligence in the age of networks.

Costs and prices in the digital age (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (2000, February). Costs and prices in the digital age. Paper presented at the Electronic Library

No abstract available.

Finding working partners in the virtual world. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (1999, May). Finding working partners in the virtual world

Matching partners: tools for social browsing that take people as texts. (1999)
Journal Article
Davenport, E. (1999). Matching partners: tools for social browsing that take people as texts. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Research, 24, 1-16

The paper describes an emerging research agenda, and some of the preliminary conceptualisations for social browsers than can assist group members who may wish to accomplish tasks together, but are unaware of each other. It is likely that the problem... Read More about Matching partners: tools for social browsing that take people as texts..

Groups, adaptation, coordination, translation (GACT): digital genres and the organisational genome (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (1999, January). Groups, adaptation, coordination, translation (GACT): digital genres and the organisational genome

Research agendas in different disciplines have addressed ways in which groups adapt to their environments, coordinate interactions and translate such activities into practices which can be shared by other groups. This paper incorporates research on d... Read More about Groups, adaptation, coordination, translation (GACT): digital genres and the organisational genome.

The construction of knowledge in business. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (1999, December). The construction of knowledge in business. Paper presented at Knowledge Management

No abstract available.

'Artificial morality': representations of trust in interactive systems. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., Dibben, M., Friedman, B., Marsh, S., Rosenbaum, H., & Thimbleby, H. (1999, August). 'Artificial morality': representations of trust in interactive systems. Presented at Interact '99

Making interactions visible: tools for social browsing. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., Connolly, R., Spence, R., Buckner, K., Whyte, A., & Barr, K. (1999, May). Making interactions visible: tools for social browsing. Presented at CHI EA '99

The authors describe the problem of 'community myopia': a lack of awareness of people and resources that might assist members of a community to carry out tasks. They present a prototype social browser in two stages: a basic computer based social netw... Read More about Making interactions visible: tools for social browsing..