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.

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

‘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?.

Lit Long: Edinburgh (2015)
Digital Artefact
Loxley, J., Oberlander, J., Reid, J., Quigley, A., Anderson, M., Alex, B., Fieldhouse, I., Grover, C., Harris-Birtill, D., Hinrichs, U., Osborne, N., Otty, L., Thomson, T., Anker, V., & Karaiskos, V. (2015). Lit Long: Edinburgh

Lit Long: Edinburgh is a very large database of place-name mentions in around 550 books that use Edinburgh as a setting. We have extracted the text surrounding each mention and included that in our database. The data has then been mapped onto the cit... Read More about Lit Long: Edinburgh.

Copyright and the profession of the author. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ramdarshan Bold, M. (2009, October). Copyright and the profession of the author. Paper presented at 7th International Conference on the Book

There has been much formative work on the origins of the economy of authorship, focusing on the evolution of copyright laws and their effect on the position of the author. Previous studies have examined the role of the patron, the industrialisation o... Read More about Copyright and the profession of the author..

Powers in the Land?: British political columnists in the information era (2008)
Journal Article
Duff, A. S. (2008). Powers in the Land?: British political columnists in the information era. Journalism Practice, 2(2), 230-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512780801999386

The expansion of opinion is one of the key developments in the British press, as elsewhere. The article analyses the role of one of the most important types of commentator, newspaper political columnists, examining their credentials, sources, informa... Read More about Powers in the Land?: British political columnists in the information era.

Additions and addenda to VD16 in Edinburgh Libraries: Series I - National Library of Scotland, Advocates Library. (2007)
Data
Kelly, W. A. (2007). Additions and addenda to VD16 in Edinburgh Libraries: Series I - National Library of Scotland, Advocates Library. [Data]

Informatisation: libraries and the exploitation of electronic information services. (2006)
Book Chapter
Duff, A. (2006). Informatisation: libraries and the exploitation of electronic information services. In A. Black, & P. Hoare (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland: 1850-2000 (627-638). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521780971.051

Modern librarianship has been shaped by many factors, socio-cultural, political, economic and demographic, but there is a strong case – although not necessarily a technologically deterministic one – for the assertion that technological change has bee... Read More about Informatisation: libraries and the exploitation of electronic information services..

‘Laying a foundation of fact’: Fabianism and the information society thesis (2006)
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2006). ‘Laying a foundation of fact’: Fabianism and the information society thesis. Information, Communication and Society, 9(4), 515-536. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180600858754

This article explores affinities between postindustrialism and modes of thinking characteristic of the Fabian Society, especially in the first half of the twentieth century. In the hands of Daniel Bell and others, the information society thesis postu... Read More about ‘Laying a foundation of fact’: Fabianism and the information society thesis.

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

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..

Street libraries: infoshops and alternative reading rooms. (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atton, C. (1998, June). Street libraries: infoshops and alternative reading rooms. Paper presented at American Library Association Annual Conference

Using critical thinking as a basis for library user education. (1996)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atton, C. (1995, April). Using critical thinking as a basis for library user education. Presented at Serving our students: information skills for the new millennium - CoFHE Annual Study Conference

Policing electronic information: threats to freedom of expression (1995)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1995). Policing electronic information: threats to freedom of expression. New Library World, 96(5), 5-9. https://doi.org/10.1108/03074809510147191

Considers two limits on freedom of expression in electronic
media: the regulation of the Internet and electronic
copyright. Examines these in two case studies, one on the
status of anarchist publishing on the Internet, the other on
the use of sam... Read More about Policing electronic information: threats to freedom of expression.

The SPRIG Union Catalogue of Periodicals on dBASE III (1987)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1987). The SPRIG Union Catalogue of Periodicals on dBASE III. Program, 21(4), 376-378. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb046981

When the Sport & Recreation Information Group (SPRIG) was founded in 1984 one of its aims was to improve bibliographic control of the literature of sport, physical education and recreation. The co-operative exploitation of resources was also consider... Read More about The SPRIG Union Catalogue of Periodicals on dBASE III.