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You can’t say politics on the internet? (2015)
Digital Artefact
Ryan, B. (2015). You can’t say politics on the internet?. [http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/114803/1/Final-report-A-Manifesto-for-Digital-Messiness.pdf]

I have been interested in how governments use the internet to engage with citizens for a few years now. Of course, I’m very late to this party – e-democracy was ‘invented’ over 20 years ago. I didn’t start from there – I stumbled into researching how... Read More about You can’t say politics on the internet?.

Digital Proxies – a potential new research area (2015)
Digital Artefact
Ryan, B. (2015). Digital Proxies – a potential new research area. [https://bruceryan.info/2015/03/13/digital-proxies-a-potential-new-research-area/]

What is a digital proxy? A digital proxy would be someone who undertakes a citizen’s online affairs, principally around digital participatory or elective democracy, because the citizen cannot use the internet for some reason. Paper was a contri... Read More about Digital Proxies – a potential new research area.

World heritage: exploring the tension between the national and the universal (2008)
Journal Article
Raki?, T., & Chambers, D. (2008). World heritage: exploring the tension between the national and the universal. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 2, 145-155. https://doi.org/10.2167/jht056.0

The complex issues of conservation, politics, tourism management and ownership have emerged as critical issues within the World Heritage debate and specifically within heritage tourism research. Within this context, this paper focuses on issues of ow... Read More about World heritage: exploring the tension between the national and the universal.