Mobile Government & Electronic Governance-Salford Business School,IRIS,UK

Information Systems, Organisation and Society (ISOS)

The Information Systems, Organisation and Society Research Centre brings together the substantial community of scholars at Salford who share a general interest in researching the social and organisational aspects of information systems. The group is particularly interested in critical and interpretive research. There is also a growing steam of science and technology studies work.

Current interests in the group are: ICTs and social inclusion, the rise of social networking sites such as Myspace, On-line Gaming, information fulfilment, the diffusion of innovations, ICTs and call centre working, mobile and ubiquitous computing, system work-arounds, knowledge work, learning technologies, Web 2.0 technologies, gender and technology, web accessibility, philosophy of technology.

The group are responsible for much of the provision of the ICT related postgraduate teaching with the Salford Business School. We offer various programmes, details of which can be found here. If you would like to discuss these programmes or make an application, please do contact Dr. Maria Kutar who is the admissions officer.

The group also contributes to IRIS' active doctoral school and we are always interested in hearing form potential PhD students. If you have an idea of what you would like to research, tell us. If you don't, not to worry, we can help you craft your research proposal. If you are interested in joining our 6* rated group, please do contact any member directly or Dr. Ben Light, Director of the centre and leader of the ISOS doctoral school stream.

ISOS - Research Areas

• Gender and Technology - women's representation in the IT industry
• Social Inclusion and ICTs
• Online Gaming - the Singstar Phenomena, Wii's and PSP use
• Technology and Cultural Studies
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing - e.g. Emergency Services use of GPS
• Social Networking Technologies - e.g. Secondlife, MySpace, Internet Dating
• Cyberstalking
• Covert Technology Use - e.g. Subversive users in on-line communities
• Science and Technology Studies
• IT Law
• Computer Ethics
• Diffusion of Innovations
• Disability and Technology - web accessibility
• E-Governance
• Learning Technologies - including Blogging and Web 2.0 use
• Critical Social Theory and IS
• Cognition and Technology
• Knowledge Work - implications of the so called 'global knowledge economy'
• Call Centre Working - issues of autonomy and surveillance
• Information Management - information fulfillment
• Enterprise Technologies

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