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08 August 2007
Professor Michael Rose is interviewed on Radio 4's Thinking Allowed Programme talking about his e-Society research project "IT skills, values, and consciousness: a data based profile of IT professionals". website

07 August 2007
Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 - are you keen to get to grips with the social and cultural implications of Web 2.0? (press) (pdf)

25 April 2007
"How is the Digitization of Information Impacting Upon Patients, Staff and Managers Across the Health Service? (news)

18th April 2007
John Curtice, a member of the e-Society programme is speaking at the House of Commons regarding the Internet and the 2005 General Election. (events)

7 March 2007
PRESCRIPTIONS FOR HEALTH ADVICE ONLINE. When searching for health advice online, consumers often reject websites with high quality medical information in favour of those with a human touch, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Press Release (pdf) Briefing Doc (pdf)

 

 


What is e-Society?

Why go to the supermarket, when you can fill up your virtual basket in half the time? Who are your children chatting to for hours online? Text your local MP, diagnose an illness or search for a new house online....Our day-to-day practices are changing at an unprecedented speed. As we become more and more attached to digital technologies, there is a growing need to understand their immediate and long-term implications...

The ESRC E-Society is the largest ever-academic research programme to investigate the impact of digital technologies, particularly the internet on society. Original and insightful findings from the programme are already helping both policy makers and industry to respond better to the needs and demands of the new e-society citizen.

Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and now run out of the Department of Sociology at the University of York, this £6.5 million programme draws on the expertise of leading academics from across the UK. Launched in October 2003, the programme will run until the end of October 2007.

Twenty-eight projects from across the social sciences are producing key findings in six related areas of research:

  • children and the e-society
  • cities and neighbourhood change in an e-society
  • health and health services in an e-society
  • privacy, identity and trust in an e-society
  • socio-political divisions and change in an e-society
  • work, consumption and business in an e-society

Professor Roger Burrows
Programme Coordinator
Department of Sociology
University of York
Heslington
York
Y10 5DD

t 01904 433048
e rjb7@york.ac.uk
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Sarah Shrive-Morrison
ESRC e-Society Research Programme Administrator
Department of Sociology
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

t 01904 433050
f 01904 433043
e ssm500@york.ac.uk

Antonia Luther-Jones
Communications and Events Manager
Department of Sociology
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

t 01904 434561
f 01904 433043
e alj504@york.ac.uk

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