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Social democracy and information media policy (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.

A note on the origins of the 'information society' (1996)
Journal Article
Duff, A., Criag, D., & McNeill, D. A. (1996). A note on the origins of the 'information society'. Journal of Information Science, 22(2), 117-122. https://doi.org/10.1177/016555159602200204

The origins of the 'information society' are not well under stood. This paper assembles and evaluates the available data with a view to providing clarification of the provenance of a now widely-used and influential concept. Two main accounts have app... Read More about A note on the origins of the 'information society'.

Is intellectual property theft? BI’s hidden ideology. (1995)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (1994). Is intellectual property theft? BI’s hidden ideology. Research strategies : RS, 13, (132-143). ISSN 0734-3310

Discusses the "hidden" ideology in traditional bibliographic instruction's treatment of intellectual property rights and copyright laws, and suggests that protection of these rights constitutes a form of stealing thoughts and ideas that should belong... Read More about Is intellectual property theft? BI’s hidden ideology..