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August 07 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 - a re you keen to get to grips with the social and cultural implications of Web 2.0? (pdf) April 07 25 April 2007 -"How is the Digitization of Information Impacting Upon Patients, Staff and Managers Across the Health Service? (pdf) March 07 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) December 06 13 December 2006 - Price comparison sites and competition - Dr Rupert Gatti and Dr Paul Kattuman, at the November 06 15 November 2006 - Professor Roger Burrows is interviewed on Radio 4's Thinking Allowed Programme highlighting geodemographic classifications of neighbourhoods within academic and commercial sociology. website 02 November 2006 - A report on the surveillance society has been published by leading experts in the field of surveillance including members of the e-Society programme. The report can be viewed here (pdf) or read more from the BBC website. A Report on the Surveillance Society (pdf) August 06 29 August - Pension websites. Does your scheme have one? Awareness of pension scheme websites is considerably higher among employees than the self-employed... Just one of the findings from the Pensions Online e-society project. Their press release can be read here (pdf) 7th August - Professor Paul Longley and his colleagues have assigned people in Great Britain to one of twenty-three "e-user types". Click here to read the press release (pdf) April 0620th April - House of Lords debate conclusions from an ESRC funded E-Society project - The UK Children Go Online by Sonia Livingstone View the debate as a webcast and
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Baroness Susan Greenfield's debate on March 06 The results from the projects first Identity Card Study have been used by the London School of Economics in their ongoing identity card project The findings from the study have also been reported by: The Register (see article) Previous News Items The Guardian BBC News Online Web Users Media Guardian |