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Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age (2022)
Journal Article
Duff, A. S. (2023). Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age. European Journal of Social Theory, 26(1), 90-108. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310221099695

Daniel Bell (1919–2011) and Manuel Castells (1942–) are the grand theorists of the information age. The article provides a detailed, up-to-date, comparative analysis of their writings. It begins with their methodologies, identifying numerous commonal... Read More about Castells versus Bell: A comparison of two grand theorists of the information age.

Computopia Revisited: Yoneji Masuda’s Realistic Utopianism (2020)
Journal Article
Duff, A., & Ito, Y. (2020). Computopia Revisited: Yoneji Masuda’s Realistic Utopianism. Keio communication review, 42(3), 53-74

Utopianism has always had a bad press. The whole genre, not least classics such as Thomas More’s Utopia (More, 1516), Robert Owen’s New View of Society (Owen, 1813), and William Morris’s News From Nowhere (Morris, 1891), has allegedly been shot throu... Read More about Computopia Revisited: Yoneji Masuda’s Realistic Utopianism.

News night - Interview (2017)
Digital Artefact
Alistair, D. (2017). News night - Interview. [MOV clip]

No abstract available.

'The internet is just another crowded theatre' - Interview on Radio Sputnik World Service (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
Duff, A. 'The internet is just another crowded theatre' - Interview on Radio Sputnik World Service. [Radio]. Exhibited at Moscow. 13 July 2017. (Unpublished)

Professor Alistair Duff was interviewed on Radio Sputnik [formerly Radio Moscow] World Service, on the topic of extremist content on social networks. A shortened version of the 20-minute interview, conducted live from Moscow by Justin White and pr... Read More about 'The internet is just another crowded theatre' - Interview on Radio Sputnik World Service.

Privacy: An Endangered Species? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Duff, A. (2017, March). Privacy: An Endangered Species?. Presented at Rotary Club, Cumbernauld

‘Privacy: an endangered species?’ was the theme of Alistair Duff’s invited dinner speech at the Rotary Club of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, 22 March 2017. This half-hour talk was followed by a half hour of questions and comments by a lively and ac... Read More about Privacy: An Endangered Species?.

Building the good information society (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Duff, A. (2016, September). Building the good information society. Presented at Connected Things Among Us, Amsterdam

The closing keynote address at EuroIA2016, Europe's largest gathering of user experience and information architecture specialists. Entitled 'Building the Good Information Society', the talk, in the historic Koepelkerk in the centre of Amsterdam, deve... Read More about Building the good information society.

Winning research grants. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Duff, A. (2015, March). Winning research grants

The good information society. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Duff, A. (2014, November). The good information society. Presented at International Conference on the Information Society, Marriott Hotel, London Heathrow Airport

Information. (2014)
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2014). Information. In The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, 1833-1835. Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781118474396.wbept0511

It is safe to say that information has not hitherto been a central concept of political philosophy. Apart from occasional flashes – from ancient Greek speculations on the political significance of logos (translatable in some contexts as “information”... Read More about Information..

Pundit for post-industrial times? Walter Lippmann as an information society theorist. (2013)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2013). Pundit for post-industrial times? Walter Lippmann as an information society theorist. Information, Communication and Society, 16, 967-988. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2012.755209

Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) was perhaps the most prominent pundit of the late-industrial era. His place in the annals of journalism is secure, but his legacy should not stop there. The article argues for a fresh interpretation of Lippmann as an early... Read More about Pundit for post-industrial times? Walter Lippmann as an information society theorist..

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

Rethinking the digital divide: from philanthropy to isonomia.. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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...

R. H. Tawney. (2008)
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2007). R. H. Tawney. In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 271-272. Macmillan Reference USA