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David’s latest book was published by Routledge, in their Focus series for short, punchy new work. At 110pages this book aims to get a meaty snapshot of David’s thinking across to readers beginning to become […]
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From 1st January 2018 David Kreps became Chair of the International Federation for Information Processing’s Technical Committee 9 on ICT and Society, leading nearly 600 academics and practitioners from over 60 countries across ten different […]
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“Understanding Digital Events”: In August 2017 David was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for the duration of 2018. This highly prestigious award allows “academics to focus on a major piece of research and to communicate […]
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David is Chair and Editor-in-Chief, along with co-Chairs Charles Ess, Kai Kimppa, and Louise Leenen, of the 13th IFIP TC9 Human Choice and Computers Conference: This Changes Everything, which will take place as part of […]
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This is a book about evolution – from a post-Darwinian perspective. It recounts the core ideas of one of the great French philosophers, Henri Bergson (1859-1941), and his rediscovery and legacy in the poststructuralist critical […]
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Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the twenty-first century, this book reassesses the widely-held view that their work […]
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In November 2017, David’s paper, delivered in Japan in November 2016, and revised during the Spring of 2017 in response to the conference, and referring to some of the other papers delivered there, was published, […]
David published a paper in the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, in October 2017, entitled ‘Corporations and professionalism: awkward bed-fellows?’ – a response to Oliver Burmeister’s paper, in the same issue, on Professionalism in […]
In October 2017 David’s first monograph, Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence, was made available in a soft back edition by the publishers, Palgrave – at a third of the price of the hardback!
In September 2017, David co-authored an article in The Conversation responding to Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan’s prediction a bonfire of industry jobs in the Banking sector as automation takes hold across the finance sector.
In August 2017, a new review of David’s book of collected essays Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment, written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science was published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History of […]
“Understanding Digital Events”: In August 2017 David was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for the duration of 2018. This highly prestigious award allows “academics to focus on a major piece of research and to communicate […]
In September 2017 David will be one of the invited Keynote Speakers at NITC / SEARCC CONFERENCE 2017 Colombo, Sri Lanka, speaking on Digital Inclusion.
David presented at ETHICOMP 2017, in Turin, Italy, in June 2017. Abstract: This paper presents a conception of personhood as both physical and social, and both as radically contingent upon their respective physical and social environments. […]
In May 2017 David published an article in The Conversation entitled Ten ways Manchester is set to become one of the world’s top “digital cities”, asking whether, as new Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, suggested in his Manifesto, Manchester […]
In May 2017, David acted as External Examiner to PhD Candidate Tracy Buss, whose thesis on information behaviour in the online college search process was a very interesting piece of work on an under-researched area. […]