More than just friends? Facebook, disclosive ethics and the morality of technology (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Light, B., McGrath, K., & Griffiths, M. (2008, January). More than just friends? Facebook, disclosive ethics and the morality of technology. Presented at International Conference on Information Systems

Social networking sites have become increasingly popular destinations for people wishing to chat, play games, make new friends or simply stay in touch. Furthermore, many organizations have been quick to grasp the potential they offer for marketing,... Read More about More than just friends? Facebook, disclosive ethics and the morality of technology.

Spot the difference: an exploratory case study of the simultaneous evaluation of custom and package applications (2008)
Book Chapter
Entwistle, A., & Light, B. (2008). Spot the difference: an exploratory case study of the simultaneous evaluation of custom and package applications. In Z. Irani, & P. Love (Eds.), Evaluating Information Systems. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann

Games (2008)
Book
Fuchs, M., & Strouhal, E. (2008). Games. Vienna: Sonderzahl Verlag

The book is a publication that accompanies the exhibition with the same name held in Vienna at Kunsthalle in 2008.

Globalization, the ‘competition’ state and the rise of the ‘regulatory’ state in European telecommunications (2008)
Journal Article
Humphreys, P., & Simpson, S. (2008). Globalization, the ‘competition’ state and the rise of the ‘regulatory’ state in European telecommunications. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5965.2008.00802.x

This article examines European telecommunications through the conceptual lenses of the ‘competition’ and the ‘regulatory’ state, exploring their complementarities and tensions. It analyses the EU's electronic communications regulatory framework, expo... Read More about Globalization, the ‘competition’ state and the rise of the ‘regulatory’ state in European telecommunications.

International policy implementation through gate keeping: the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers (2008)
Book Chapter
Christou, G., & Simpson, S. (2008). International policy implementation through gate keeping: the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers. In J. Joachim, B. Reinalda, & B. Verbeek (Eds.), International Organizations and Implementation Enforcers, Managers, Authorities? (75-87). London: Routledge

Limitations to transnational private governance of the internet: the dot eu top level domain (2008)
Book Chapter
Christou, G., & Simpson, S. (2008). Limitations to transnational private governance of the internet: the dot eu top level domain. In J. Graz, & A. Nolke (Eds.), Transnational Private Governance and its Limits (156-167). London: Routledge

Fame is a losing game: Celebrity gossip blogging, bitch culture and postfeminism (2008)
Journal Article
Fairclough, K. (2008). Fame is a losing game: Celebrity gossip blogging, bitch culture and postfeminism. Genders,

Unamerican Views: Why US-developed models of press-state relations don't apply to the rest of the world (2008)
Journal Article
Archetti, C. (2008). Unamerican Views: Why US-developed models of press-state relations don't apply to the rest of the world. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 5(3), 4-26

The article shows the limitations of the 'indexing' hypothesis, an influential conceptualization of state-press relations based on the notion that the media tend to reproduce the range of debate within political elites. The hypothesis, as confirmed b... Read More about Unamerican Views: Why US-developed models of press-state relations don't apply to the rest of the world.

News coverage of 9/11 and the demise of the media flows, globalization and localization hypotheses (2008)
Journal Article
Archetti, C. (2008). News coverage of 9/11 and the demise of the media flows, globalization and localization hypotheses. International Communication Gazette, 70(6), 463-486. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048508096143

An international comparative study of the elite press framing of 9/11 in the US, Italy, France and Pakistan reveals that there is no empirical backing for the claims of three core strands of research about news exchanges within the field of Internati... Read More about News coverage of 9/11 and the demise of the media flows, globalization and localization hypotheses.

Access courses as a site of engagement: a research project (2008)
Report
O'Doherty, E., Yates, R., Cleary, R., & Thomas, A. (2008). Access courses as a site of engagement: a research project

This research project was funded by the Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance and Aimhigher Research Network North West. A database of Access students was held at the University of Salford that included students from 1998-2006. The names of the stude... Read More about Access courses as a site of engagement: a research project.

Consumption, Coca-colonisation, cultural resistance--and Santa Claus (2008)
Book Chapter
Mckay, G. (2008). Consumption, Coca-colonisation, cultural resistance--and Santa Claus. In S. Whiteley (Ed.), Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture (50-70). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

In what ways has the iconography and practice of Christmas been shaped, understood and consumed as an American experience? This chapter explores explains and questions the ideological valence of Christmas in part as an American socio-economic and cul... Read More about Consumption, Coca-colonisation, cultural resistance--and Santa Claus.

IT consultants, salesmanship and the challenges of packaged software selection in SMEs (2008)
Journal Article
Howcroft, D., & Light, B. (2008). IT consultants, salesmanship and the challenges of packaged software selection in SMEs. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 21(6), 597-615. https://doi.org/10.1108/17410390810911203

Purpose – This paper seeks to analyse the process of packaged software selection in a small organization, focussing particularly on the role of IT consultants as intermediaries in the process. Design/methodology/approach – This is based upon a longi... Read More about IT consultants, salesmanship and the challenges of packaged software selection in SMEs.

Web mediated market interactions and enterprise software (2008)
Journal Article
Avila-Porro, D., Light, B., & McLean, R. (2008). Web mediated market interactions and enterprise software

With increased consolidation and a few large vendors dominating the market, how can software vendors distinguish themselves in order to maintain profitability and gain market share? Increasingly customers are becoming more proactive in selecting a ve... Read More about Web mediated market interactions and enterprise software.

The changing totems of European telecommunications governance: Liberalisation, market forces and the importance of the EU regulatory package (2008)
Book Chapter
Simpson, S. (2008). The changing totems of European telecommunications governance: Liberalisation, market forces and the importance of the EU regulatory package. In D. Ward (Ed.), The European Union & the Culture Industries: Regulation and the Public Interest (105-124). Aldershot: Ashgate

Scots word of the season : pinkie (2008)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2008). Scots word of the season : pinkie. ˜The œbottle imp, 3,

Scots word of the season : kailyard (2008)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2008). Scots word of the season : kailyard. ˜The œbottle imp, 4,

Design against crime european exchange tool. Guidance for designing against crime across Europe (2008)
Book
Davey, C., & Wootton, A. (2008). Design against crime european exchange tool. Guidance for designing against crime across Europe. Salford, UK: Design Against Crime Solution Centre, University of Salford

This guidance—a key output of the European Commission's AGIS 2006 project led by the University of Salford—aims to help local authorities, planners, police, academics, design professionals and developers identify methods of addressing crime preventio... Read More about Design against crime european exchange tool. Guidance for designing against crime across Europe.

Voices from modern literary Glasgow (2008)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2008). Voices from modern literary Glasgow. ˜The œbottle imp, 3,

Telematic dreaming at Singapore Science Centre (2007)
Exhibition / Performance
Sermon, P. Telematic dreaming at Singapore Science Centre. [Telematic Art Installation]. 1 November 2007 - 1 January 2008. (Unpublished)

View avant-garde art exhibits at the Singapore Science Centre with the launch of the country's first exhibition on interactive digital art - DAT (Digital Art and Technology) - featuring work by Paul Sermon

Transcendental realism in documentary (2007)
Book Chapter
Knudsen, E. (2007). Transcendental realism in documentary. In W. De Jong, & T. Austin (Eds.), Rethinking documentary: a documentary reader. Open University Press