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Integration in ERP environments: rhetoric, realities and organisational possibilities (2006)
Journal Article
Light, B., & Wagner, E. (2006). Integration in ERP environments: rhetoric, realities and organisational possibilities. New Technology, Work and Employment, 21(3), 215-228. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-005X.2006.00176.x

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages are said to enable integration when the standard inscription is adhered to through software configuration. A social shaping perspective expands conceptualisations of ERP packages, enabling a view of them as... Read More about Integration in ERP environments: rhetoric, realities and organisational possibilities.

Coming together: Thedatingchannel.com and the future of television (2006)
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Palmer, G. (2006). Coming together: Thedatingchannel.com and the future of television. Journal of Media Practice, 7(2), 109-121. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.7.2.109/1

I begin with a very brief discussion of how the meaning of interactive television has developed over the past 20 years. I then consider the ways in which communities have usually been represented in television utilising old models of interactivity th... Read More about Coming together: Thedatingchannel.com and the future of television.

Design, poverty and sustainable development (2006)
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Thomas, A. (2006). Design, poverty and sustainable development. Design Issues, 22(4), 54-65. https://doi.org/10.1162/desi.2006.22.4.54

Design in a poor context, or for the alleviation of poverty, has received little or no attention. An informal discourse analysis shows that design and poverty have not been linked, the two being seen as mutually exclusive. This paper aims to examine... Read More about Design, poverty and sustainable development.

Methods for Studying Family Visitors in Art Museums: A cross-disciplinary review of current research (2006)
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Sterry, P., & Beaumont, E. (2006). Methods for Studying Family Visitors in Art Museums: A cross-disciplinary review of current research. Museum Management and Curatorship, 21(3), 222-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.musmancur.2005.11.003

This paper examines current trends in family studies research, details the methodological and topical perspectives that are emerging, and reflects on how these findings could be integrated to provide a more coherent approach to researching the leisur... Read More about Methods for Studying Family Visitors in Art Museums: A cross-disciplinary review of current research.

Reflections on issues of power in packaged software selection (2006)
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Light, B., & Howcroft, D. (2006). Reflections on issues of power in packaged software selection. Information Systems Journal, 16(3), 215-235. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2575.2006.00216.x

The adoption of packaged software is becoming increasingly common in a variety of organizations and much of the packaged software literature presents this as a straightforward, linear process based on rationalistic evaluation. This paper applies the... Read More about Reflections on issues of power in packaged software selection.

Singing detected: Blackpool and the strange case of the missing television musical dramas (2006)
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Mundy, J. (2006). Singing detected: Blackpool and the strange case of the missing television musical dramas. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 3(1), 59-71. https://doi.org/10.3366/JBCTV.2006.3.1.59

Acknowledging the critical acclaim that surrounds the work of Dennis Potter in televised musical dramas including Pennies From Heaven and The Singing Detective, this article argues that the 'new television language' invented by Potter has been largel... Read More about Singing detected: Blackpool and the strange case of the missing television musical dramas.

Birth of the school: discursive methodologies in jazz education (2006)
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Whyton, T. (2006). Birth of the school: discursive methodologies in jazz education. Music Education Research, 8(1), 65-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/14613800600570744

This study examines the politics of jazz education and the implications of canon forming, and proposes a critical methodology that opens up the field of study to broader cultural analysis. In this context, I discuss the unique problems faced by jazz... Read More about Birth of the school: discursive methodologies in jazz education.

Sediment stratigraphy and heavy metal fluxes to reservoirs in the southern Pennines uplands, UK. (2006)
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Shotbolt, L., Hutchinson, S., & Thomas, A. (2006). Sediment stratigraphy and heavy metal fluxes to reservoirs in the southern Pennines uplands, UK. Journal of Paleolimnology, 35(2), 305-322. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-005-1594-2

Reservoir sediments are rarely used as environmental archives because of the potential for sediment disturbance by fluctuating water levels. However, rapid rates of sedimentation, proximity to urban centres and often the existence of management recor... Read More about Sediment stratigraphy and heavy metal fluxes to reservoirs in the southern Pennines uplands, UK..

Global knowledge capitalism, self-woven safety nets, and the crisis of employability (2006)
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Moore, P. (2006). Global knowledge capitalism, self-woven safety nets, and the crisis of employability. Global Society, 20(4), 453-473. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600820600929812

In the global economy, workers are increasingly expected to cultivate an unprecedented repertoire of abilities in an immaterial world of work. This signifies a limited shift in capitalist expansion in the post-Fordist world in relation to workers' em... Read More about Global knowledge capitalism, self-woven safety nets, and the crisis of employability.