All Outputs (15)

Perspectives on Citizen Data Privacy in a Smart City -an Empirical Case Study (2024)
Journal Article
Lucas, E., Simpson, S., & Lucas, E. (in press). Perspectives on Citizen Data Privacy in a Smart City -an Empirical Case Study. Convergence,

Digitisation is arguably an inevitable feature of contemporary urban development, yet privacy issues arising from the mass data collection, transmission and processing it entails continue to be a poorly understood and contentious issue for people liv... Read More about Perspectives on Citizen Data Privacy in a Smart City -an Empirical Case Study.

Participation and Strategic Communication of Saudi Food Banks through Twitter to Enhance Food Waste Awareness among Saudi Arabian Citizens (2022)
Journal Article
Alkorbi, N., Hernandez-Perez, M., & Simpson, S. (2022). Participation and Strategic Communication of Saudi Food Banks through Twitter to Enhance Food Waste Awareness among Saudi Arabian Citizens. World academy of engineering and technology, 16(12),

Twitter is a platform service that has quickly risen to prominence as the social media platform most preferred for strategic communication campaigns. It is used by most of the Non-Profit Organizations (NPO) in Saudi Arabia, making it the most popular... Read More about Participation and Strategic Communication of Saudi Food Banks through Twitter to Enhance Food Waste Awareness among Saudi Arabian Citizens.

Political economy, communications discourse and media policy : the case of online news commenting in Nigeria (2022)
Journal Article
Apejoye, A., & Simpson, S. (2022). Political economy, communications discourse and media policy : the case of online news commenting in Nigeria. International journal of digital television (Online), https://doi.org/10.1386/jdmp_00102_1

This article provides a contribution to knowledge on the growth of online news commenting in Nigeria. Specifically, it accounts for factors which influence the character of the often fractious online discursive behaviour in evidence and what commun... Read More about Political economy, communications discourse and media policy : the case of online news commenting in Nigeria.

The struggle for co-existence : communication policy by private technical standards making and its limits in unlicensed spectrum (2019)
Journal Article
Rashid, I., & Simpson, S. (2021). The struggle for co-existence : communication policy by private technical standards making and its limits in unlicensed spectrum. Information, Communication and Society, 24(4), 576-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1662072

Huge increase in the demand by the wireless sector to use the airwaves has trained focus on the classic policy problem of resource scarcity in the field. This article illuminates a part of wireless communication – unlicensed spectrum – where a parti... Read More about The struggle for co-existence : communication policy by private technical standards making and its limits in unlicensed spectrum.

Civil society activism, strategic alignment and international public policy making for spectrum (2019)
Journal Article
Rashid, I., & Simpson, S. (2019). Civil society activism, strategic alignment and international public policy making for spectrum. Journal of Civil Society, 15(1), 62-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2019.1565181

Recent work in political science asserts a growth in prominence of civil society in international public policy processes, something that has been to this point under-addressed in the field of public policy research in communication. This article und... Read More about Civil society activism, strategic alignment and international public policy making for spectrum.

Intervention, net neutrality and European Union media policy (2016)
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Simpson, S. (2016). Intervention, net neutrality and European Union media policy. International Journal of Digital Television, 7(3), 331-346. https://doi.org/10.1386/jdtv.7.3.331_1

Net Neutrality was once in Europe thought to be a technically arcane subject with little policy relevance beyond the USA. However, its dominant articulation as the idea that Internet Service Providers should treat equally communication traffic of a b... Read More about Intervention, net neutrality and European Union media policy.

Next generation network environments in Europe — The significance of the EU as a policy actor (2013)
Journal Article
Simpson, J. (2014). Next generation network environments in Europe — The significance of the EU as a policy actor. Government Information Quarterly, 31(1), 100-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2012.08.008

The relatively new topic of Next Generation Networks (NGN) is one which is ascending rapidly communications policy agendas in Europe and beyond. How these networks might be created and, beyond that, how they might function in a sustained and broadly... Read More about Next generation network environments in Europe — The significance of the EU as a policy actor.

Shaping the global communications milieu : the EU’s influence on Internet and telecommunications governance (2012)
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governance. Comparative European Politics, 12(1), 54-75. https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2012.33

This article evaluates the European Union’s (EU) influence in shaping the global governance for telecommunications and the Internet. Through analysing EU behaviour within an actorness framework, we demonstrate how the external opportunity structur... Read More about Shaping the global communications milieu : the EU’s influence on Internet and telecommunications governance.

‘New’ governance in European Union policy making: Policy innovation or political compromise in European telecommunications? (2011)
Journal Article
Simpson, S. (2011). ‘New’ governance in European Union policy making: Policy innovation or political compromise in European telecommunications?. West European Politics, 34(5), 1114-1133. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2011.591108

This article makes a contribution to research on soft or ‘new’ governance in EU policy making by examining the recent history of telecommunications policy as a case study, a sector hitherto not widely recognised for displaying this kind of governan... Read More about ‘New’ governance in European Union policy making: Policy innovation or political compromise in European telecommunications?.

The European Union, multilateralism and the global governance of the Internet (2011)
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Christou, G., & Simpson, S. (2011). The European Union, multilateralism and the global governance of the Internet. Journal of European Public Policy, 18(2), 241-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2011.544505

Whilst the global governance architecture of the Internet has evolved at pace in the last 10 years, the European Union’s (EU) role and influence in its development has been relatively understudied. This article contributes to closing this gap in t... Read More about The European Union, multilateralism and the global governance of the Internet.

Governing information infrastructures and services in telecommunications (2010)
Journal Article
Simpson, S. (2010). Governing information infrastructures and services in telecommunications. Aslib Proceedings, 62(1), 46. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531011015190

Purpose – Telecommunications comprises a vital component of information infrastructures and services, with a historically strong public interest dimension. For the best part of 30 years, the telecommunications sector in Europe has been the subject of... Read More about Governing information infrastructures and services in telecommunications.

Effective communications regulation in an era of convergence?: The case of premium rate telephony and television in the UK (2010)
Journal Article
Simpson, S. (2010). Effective communications regulation in an era of convergence?: The case of premium rate telephony and television in the UK. Convergence, 16(2), 217. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856509357684

This article explores recent problems with premium rate number service (PRS) use in UK participation TV, utilizing a regulatory convergence analytical framework. In 2003, the UK government created the communications convergence regulator, Ofcom, yet... Read More about Effective communications regulation in an era of convergence?: The case of premium rate telephony and television in the UK.

New governance, the internet, and country code top-level domains in Europe (2009)
Journal Article
Christou, G., & Simpson, S. (2009). New governance, the internet, and country code top-level domains in Europe. Governance, 22(4), 599. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0491.2009.01455.x

Much academic work on governance in recent years has explored responses that states have made to sectors of the economy, usually historically well rooted nationally, that have been subject to globalizing pressures. Less work exists on responses that... Read More about New governance, the internet, and country code top-level domains in Europe.

Supranationalism through institutionalization and its limits in European telecommunications (2009)
Journal Article
Simpson, S. (2009). Supranationalism through institutionalization and its limits in European telecommunications. Information, Communication and Society, 12(8), 1224-1241. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180902866042

The recent proposal of a European Electronic Communications Market Authority (EECMA) by the European Commission has turned out to be the most high profile and controversial element of the latest review of the EU's telecommunications regulatory framew... Read More about Supranationalism through institutionalization and its limits in European telecommunications.

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.