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Hubble bubble toil and trouble : the special case of emergency services (2011)
Book Chapter
Sobreperez, P. (2011). Hubble bubble toil and trouble : the special case of emergency services. In Y. Dwivedi, M. Wade, & S. Schneberger (Eds.), Information Systems Theory Explaining and Predicting Our Digital Society (143-158). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9707-4_9

The author outlines the technological frames strand of social shaping of technology theory and posits that the dimensions used by the major proponents of the theory to not necessarily apply to all situations. The proposal is to use an analogy of a te... Read More about Hubble bubble toil and trouble : the special case of emergency services.

Reframing online shopping through innovative and organic user-oriented design (2011)
Book Chapter
Greenhill, A., & Fletcher, G. (2011). Reframing online shopping through innovative and organic user-oriented design. In H. Isomäki, & S. Pekkola (Eds.), Reframing Humans in Information Systems Development (243-262). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-347-3_15

The structure and form of the Web is defined by specific design elements; its protocols, the scope of acceptable file formats and the capability of clients. These elements are intentionally minimal constraints but nonetheless structure what can be ac... Read More about Reframing online shopping through innovative and organic user-oriented design.

Two fat ladies at the seaside: gambling in working class holidays 1920-1970 (2011)
Book Chapter
Downs, C. (2011). Two fat ladies at the seaside: gambling in working class holidays 1920-1970. In R. Snape, & D. Smith (Eds.), Recording Leisure Lives: Holidays and Tourism in 20th Century Britain (51-73). Leisure Studies

Gambling was a popular and pervasive leisure pursuit long before it was legalised in January 1961. The most prevalent forms of gambling amongst the working classes were the football pools, illegal off-course cash betting and greyhound racing; all of... Read More about Two fat ladies at the seaside: gambling in working class holidays 1920-1970.

Cybercrime (2011)
Book Chapter
MacEwan, N., Weinstein, S., Wild, C., & Geach, N. (2011). Cybercrime. In Electronic and Mobile Commerce Law: An Analysis of Trade, Finance, Media and Cybercrime in the Digital Age (307-382). Hatfield, UK: University of Hertfordshire Press