All Outputs (107)

Briefing and designing performing arts buildings : assessing the role of secondary project stakeholders (2007)
Journal Article
Sterry, P., & Sutrisna, M. (2007). Briefing and designing performing arts buildings : assessing the role of secondary project stakeholders. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 3(4), 209-221

It is recognized that building projects for the performing arts are complex and unique not only because of the need to meet strict technical demands, but also the need to provide a successful venue satisfying the varied and sometimes conflicting need... Read More about Briefing and designing performing arts buildings : assessing the role of secondary project stakeholders.

Strategic market planning in China : a means-end chain approach to market segmentation within the Beijing mobile phone market (2007)
Thesis
Sun, Q. Strategic market planning in China : a means-end chain approach to market segmentation within the Beijing mobile phone market. (Thesis). University of Salford

With a dramatic economic growth rate of 10% per year, China, as one of the Big Emerging Markets, has drawn increasing attention from both academia and industry. Its market potential and growth rate is believed to be the top attraction for global inve... Read More about Strategic market planning in China : a means-end chain approach to market segmentation within the Beijing mobile phone market.

Black Police Associations and the police occupational culture (2007)
Book Chapter
O'Neill, M., & Holdaway, S. (2007). Black Police Associations and the police occupational culture. In Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions (253-274). Elsevier Press / Emerald

In recent years, Black Police Associations (BPAs) have become key forces of change within the police service, involved in minority ethnic recruitment and retention initiatives, working closely with senior management, and also serving as mechanisms of... Read More about Black Police Associations and the police occupational culture.

Police occupational culture: New debates and directions (2007)
Book
(2007). M. O'Neill, M. Marks, & A. Singh (Eds.), Police occupational culture: New debates and directions. Emerald

The idea of police occupational culture or cop culture has been a source of academic interest and debate since research into policing began in earnest in the 1960s. Police culture has become a lens through which a number of aspects of the police and... Read More about Police occupational culture: New debates and directions.

Introduction (2007)
Book Chapter
O'Neill, M., & Singh, A. (2007). Introduction. In M. O'Neill, M. Marks, & A. Singh (Eds.), The police occupational culture : new debates and directions (1-16). Emerald

Going offline: an exploratory cultural artifact analysis of an internet dating site's developing trajectories (2007)
Journal Article
Fletcher, G., & Light, B. (2007). Going offline: an exploratory cultural artifact analysis of an internet dating site's developing trajectories. International Journal of Information Management, 27(6), 422-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2007.08.001

In this study, we develop a theorisation of an internet dating site as a cultural artifact. The site, Gaydar, is targeted at gay men. We argue that contemporary received representations of their sexuality figure heavily in the site's focus by providi... Read More about Going offline: an exploratory cultural artifact analysis of an internet dating site's developing trajectories.

Users as developers: a field study of call centre knowledge work (2007)
Journal Article
Burns, B., & Light, B. (2007). Users as developers: a field study of call centre knowledge work. Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, 19(4), 42-56. https://doi.org/10.4018/joeuc.2007100103

We report the findings of a field study of the enactment of ICT supported knowledge work in a Human Resources contact centre, illustrating the negotiable boundary between what constitutes the developer and user. Drawing upon ideas from the social sha... Read More about Users as developers: a field study of call centre knowledge work.

Where has all the racism gone? Views of racism within constabularies after Macpherson (2007)
Journal Article
Holdaway, S., & O'Neill, M. (2007). Where has all the racism gone? Views of racism within constabularies after Macpherson. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30(3), 397-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870701217480

The constitutional referendum of June 2006 : end of the 'Great Reform' but not of reform itself (2007)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2007). The constitutional referendum of June 2006 : end of the 'Great Reform' but not of reform itself. In J. Briquet, & A. Mastropaolo (Eds.), Italian Politics: The Center-Left's Poisoned Victory (99-118). Oxford: Berghahn

This chapter analyses the origins of the constitutional referendum of June 2006, its significance, the campaign, the result and the implications of the result for Italian politics, arguing that while the referendum ended the idea of a 'grande riforma... Read More about The constitutional referendum of June 2006 : end of the 'Great Reform' but not of reform itself.

Hacker culture and the FLOSS innovation (2007)
Book Chapter
Lin, Y. (2007). Hacker culture and the FLOSS innovation. In Handbook of research on open source software: Technological, economic, and social perspectives (34-46). IGI

This conceptual paper aims to contribute to our understanding of the FLOSS innovation and how it is shaped by and also shapes various perceptions on and practices of hacker culture. Unlike existing literature that usually normalises, radicalises, mar... Read More about Hacker culture and the FLOSS innovation.

Corpus tools and methods, today and tomorrow: Incorporating linguists' manual annotations (2007)
Journal Article
Smith, N., Hoffmann, S., & Rayson, P. (2007). Corpus tools and methods, today and tomorrow: Incorporating linguists' manual annotations. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 23(2), 163-180. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqn004

Today’s corpus tools offer the user a wide range of features that greatly facilitate the linguistic analysis of large amounts of authentic language data (e.g. frequency distributions, collocations, keywords, etc.). However, these tools typically fa... Read More about Corpus tools and methods, today and tomorrow: Incorporating linguists' manual annotations.

The relationship between self-access centres and sociocultural elements in language learning (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Al Ghazali, F. (2007, January). The relationship between self-access centres and sociocultural elements in language learning. Presented at TESOL Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Abstract As Kennedy and Edwards (1998) point out, infusing an innovation into a different society is not always easy due to the cultural discrepancy between adopters of the innovation from one side and its recipients from the other. This dissimil... Read More about The relationship between self-access centres and sociocultural elements in language learning.

'The Black Book': John Berryman's Holocaust Requiem (2007)
Book Chapter
Boswell, M. (2007). 'The Black Book': John Berryman's Holocaust Requiem. In P. Coleman, P. McGowan, & K. Richard (Eds.), 'After thirty falls': new essays on John Berryman (11-27). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi

This essay looks in detail at an unfinished cycle of Holocaust poems called The Black Book that was begun by the American poet John Berryman in 1948. The essay includes close readings of three published poems and analysis of unpublished material from... Read More about 'The Black Book': John Berryman's Holocaust Requiem.

Organisational justice and work-related attitudes in selected commercial banks in Jordan (2007)
Thesis
Abu-Tayeh, B. Organisational justice and work-related attitudes in selected commercial banks in Jordan. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford

This study investigated the relationship between employees’ perceptions of justice and work attitudes in relation to organisational structure in selected commercial banks in Jordan. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were employed. Data... Read More about Organisational justice and work-related attitudes in selected commercial banks in Jordan.

Epic proportions : post-epic verse-novels and postcolonial critique (2007)
Thesis
Burkitt, K. Epic proportions : post-epic verse-novels and postcolonial critique. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford

My thesis is based on the premise that verse-novels occupy a marginalised and contested position in contemporary literature: as they tread the generic boundaries of poetry and prose writing, they are always marked by their incongruous nature. This... Read More about Epic proportions : post-epic verse-novels and postcolonial critique.

From the dawn of the Sabbath ... metal was born (2007)
Thesis
Cope, A. From the dawn of the Sabbath ... metal was born. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford

The early 1990s saw the publication of important academic works on the subject of heavy metal music. These works were seminal in that they were the first to recognise and interrogate, in any substantial way, a topic that had been, until then, value... Read More about From the dawn of the Sabbath ... metal was born.

The use of the L1 in Egyptian EFL classrooms (2007)
Thesis
Mohamed, S. The use of the L1 in Egyptian EFL classrooms. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford

The role of LI in foreign language classrooms has been a matter for debate in FL teaching and learning for many years. In this thesis, it will be argued that it is now time for the current dogma "always teach in the FL" to be questio... Read More about The use of the L1 in Egyptian EFL classrooms.

Liberal brutality : the illusion of difference within liberalism (2007)
Thesis
Simon, G. Liberal brutality : the illusion of difference within liberalism. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford

Hobbes argues that liberal orders protect individual freedom and enable subjects to live in different ways, but he is clear that only certain differences are tolerable: those who challenge the legitimacy and solidity of the o... Read More about Liberal brutality : the illusion of difference within liberalism.

The consumption of Sport (2007)
Book Chapter
Crawford, G. (2007). The consumption of Sport. In G. Ritzer (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Sociology. Wiley-Blackwell

Il vortice dialogico nel teatro tragico di John Webster (2007)
Journal Article
Nigri, L. (2007). Il vortice dialogico nel teatro tragico di John Webster. ˜Il œConfronto letterario, 48(2), 311-333