Links to other related sites

Last updated 15^th November 2005

The following links are chosen according to a number of criteria.  In some cases they reflect institutions, projects or networks with which I am or have been associated, and which therefore somehow deal with the field of ICTs and everyday life (e.g. Media@LSE, EMTEL, HOIT, COST269, Integer).  In some cases, institutions are cited because their staff work in related areas, and some of these websites have publication lists or downloadable papers.

UK institutions

Media@LSE, LSE – http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/Media

Its members are involved in a range of projects covering the themes of ICTs and Democracy, the Digital Economy, Literacies, Cultural and Community and Ethics. Specific research areas have included political communication, new media regulation and governance, electronic commerce, digital divides, Internet literacy, media and minorities, young people and media environments, mobile telephony, media user networks, IT and civic space and surveillance, security and privacy. It has a series of downloadable electronic working papers

Digital World, University of Surrey - http://www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/

The Surrey Digital World Research Centre has conducted research on mobile telephony amongst other things. It has a number of downloadable papers and organises a wireless world conference each year.

 

Chimera, University of Essex – http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/

Chimera consists of social scientists formally working as BTExact. They are located at BT’s Martlesham R&D site, near Ipswich. There have a publications list, some items of which are downloadable

 

Mobilities Group, University of Lancaster  - http://comp/lancs.ac.uk/sociology/temobilities.html

The group has links to online papers on mobile phones

 

Research Network for Mobile Interaction and Pervasive Social Devices – http://mobility.is.lse.ac.uk

This has a list of downloadable papers at http://mobility.is.ac.uk/html/downloads.htm

 

CRIC, University of Manchester – http://les.man.ac.uk/cric/vis-guide.htm

This is an ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition.  Although many of the publications focus on firms, some focus on consumption, the home and topics such as e-Commerce.

 

Research Centre for Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh – http://www.rcss.ed.ac.uk/technology

This centre is known for its work on the social shaping of technology.  There is a publication list for this field at http://www.rcss.ed.ac.uk/technology/SSICTref.html

Digiplay Intiaitve - www.digiplay.org.uk

This is a site dedicated to research on computer games, gamers and the gaming industry, organised by the Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition (CRIC) at the University of Manchester and the Department of Psychology at the University for Central Lancashire.

UK Programmes

 

Integer Programme – http://www.integerproject.co.uk/

I have been involved in this UK project aimed at furthering the development of Intelligent and Green homes.  It has existed since 1997 and is funded each year by the contributions of its partners drawn from local authorities, housing associations, companies and other organisations in the field of housing.  It built the exhibition home featured in the BBC's Dreamworld programme, several pilot Integer schemes exist in the UK with tenants living in Integer Homes and the project is increasingly active abroad.

European programmes and networks

 

COST269 – http://www.cost269.org/

I participated in this 5-year funded COST action that started in 1999 and finished in 2004. Called 'User Aspects of ICTs' it allowed a network of academics and those working in telecommunication companies to meet in order to explore questions about the use of ICTs.  A number of reports and papers are available on this site including ones on mobility and ICTs, capabilities and ICTs, the extended human, cultural factors shaping ICT use and the process of collaboration when researching ICTs.  The network also organised a conference in Helsinki in 2003 called ‘The Good, the Bad and the Irrelevant: The user and the future of information and communication technologies’ (Details at http://goodbad.uiah.fi - the papers should be available from this site).  

This action is a successor to the previous COST248 action 'The Future Telecommunications User' which was funded from 1994-8. Reports from that action can be found at the COST269 website above.

EMTEL - http://www.emtel2.org  

The 'European Media Technology and Everyday Life’ network is an EC funded network.  It first existed from 1996-1999, when 6 biannual meetings on different themes each led to EMTEL working papers.  In its new form (funded 2001-4), the 6 partners are each conducting research on different themes. The reports from these studies are downloadable. The network organised a conference at the LSE in 2003.

HOIT - http://www.hoit.org

The Home Orientated informatics and Telematics network has so far organised 4 conferences in 1998 (Amsterdam) 1994 (Copenhagen) 2000 (Wolverhampton) and 2003 (Irvine). Another conference is planned for York in 2005.  For abstracts from the last conference, see http://crito.uci.edu/noah/abstracts1.htm

 

e-Living - www.living-digital.com

e-Living was an EC project from 2002-2004 involving a longitudinal survey of ICTs in Bulgaria, Germany, Israel, Italy, Norway and the UK. Reports from this work are downloadable.

 

SIGIS – http://www.rcss.ed.ac.uk/sigis

This was an EC funded programme, finished in 2002 looking at issues of gender and social inclusion. The reports from various projects are downloadable.

 

Sociological Institute, University of Zurich – http://socio.ch/mobile/index_mobile.htm

This site has links to publications on the mobile phone and mobile computing and hosts some discussion groups in this field

 

SOCQUIT - www.socquit.net

This was an EC funded programme, finished in 2005, looking at Social Capital in Europe and questions about how ICTs can increase our quality of life . The website has various overheads and useful links.

 

Designing the User - http://www.zigt.ze.tu-muenchen.de/users/

This was the web-site of two German historians of technology which has the details of a network of people interested in the consumption of 20th Century technology as well a report on a workshop organised in December 2001.

Telenor publications  -  http://www.telenor.no/fou/program/nomadiske/artikler.shtml

This site contains Telenor’s research publications, including Richard Ling’s many papers, especially on mobile telephony.  Many are in English and downloadable.

Richard Ling Home Page – http://richardling.com

Now Richard has his own page – he is probably the most prolific writer on the topic of mobile phones, amongst other things

 

Sociology of the Mobile Phone - http//socio.ch./mobile/index_mobile.htm

 

This is a Swiss Site with links to various online texts worldwide, many of which concern the mobile in everyday life

 

 

Mobile phone/SMS/Instant Messaging Research - http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~nalink/mobile.html

 

This is a collection of references and links organised by Nalina Kotamraju that is similar to the ones maintained on my own site

 

North American institutions and programmes

 

Pew Internet and American Life Project - http://www.pewinternet.org/

Barry Wellam Homepage - http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman

This site provides many downloadable papers from the work of Barry Wellman and colleagues on social networks and computer networks/the Internet as well as on other topics such as the Digital Divide.