Section: Staff Profiles
James Stewart
- Name
- Dr James Stewart
- Title
- Seconded to University of Seville
- Organisation
- School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- Old Surgeons' Hall High School Yards Edinburgh UK
- Telephone
- +44 (0)131 650 6392
- J.K.Stewart@ed.ac.uk
- URL
- http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/stewart_j
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,interdisciplinary research, social network systems, the merging of virtual and physical space; China and EU innovation policy, future mobile and wireless systems, gender and technology . Other work includes cybercafes, digital inclusion, digital cities, developing Internet business, , 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 the convergence of media, and on the future shape and use of mobile devices.
He convenes and teaches courses on 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
Working Papers
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ISSTI WP1: Girls and Boys Stay in to Play [download]
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