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Dr James Stewart
Research Fellow
Research Centre for Social Sciences
James Stewart is a Senior Research Fellow. He works in the field of technology studies, concentrating on the appropriation, consumption and use of new ICTs and the co-evolution of large scale systems of technology and culture. His recent work has been on standardisation,interdisciplinarity, social network systems, the merging of virtual and physical space China, future mobile and wireless systems, gender and technology . Other work includes cybercafes, digital inclusions, digital cities, developing Internet business, interdisciplinary research, public space and ICTs,and managing innovative multimedia projects. His doctoral research was on social processes involved in how we engage, adopt (or not) and cope with new media and ICTs in our everyday lives at home and work. James is a commentator on Interactive Television and the convergence of television and the Internet, and on the future shape and use of mobile devices.
He teaches on issues of the Internet and Society, the Information Society, and the Social Shaping of ICTs.
Projects
ATBEST; Branded Meeting Places; CHINA; FLOWS; MyFIRE; Non-Place; Parcelcall; ProHeatPump; PROMETEA; SIGIS; SLIM; SLL; UK e-Infrastructure for Research
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Working Papers
- ISSTI WP1: Girls and Boys Stay in to Play [download]
Keywords: Consumption;Design;Domestication;Gender;ICT;Innovation;Intellectual Property;Media and Communications;Policy;Social Learning;Social Shaping of Technology;Telecommunications;Use of Technology