
A seminar series in the PREST MSc course, co-ordinated by Ian Miles
This page contains links to the Powerpoint presentations associated with the 2000 edition of ther course. The Millenium edition presentations are JPGs and mainly monochrome: they print easily.
WEEK 1
APPROACHES TO INFORMATION SOCIETY
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WEEK 2
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION SOCIETY
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WEEK 3
INFORMATION SOCIETY AND THE SERVICE ECONOMY
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WEEK 4
(guest slot from Kieron Flanagan, his overheads are here)
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WEEK 5
e-COMMERCE
for those of you interested in following up the readings for this seminar, please check out the following:
"E-Commerce@its.best.uk" which can be located via The Performance and Innovation Unit
DTI report on EDI available from the Information Society Initiative
OECD reports on e-commerce from OECD, and EU Information Society Project Office (ISPO) reports
A paper on changing paradigms in e-commerce by Andy McMeekin, Jason Rutter, and myself.
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WEEK 6
Richard Heek will introduce a session on:
"Information Society Benefits for Developing Countries"
-you must read this paper!
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WEEK 7
Consumer IT and Everyday Life
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WEEK 8
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CRIC has combined with PREST to form the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR).
New book: Trust in Food, A Comparative and Institutional Analysis by Unni Kjaernes, Mark Harvey & Alan Warde.
CRIC Final Report to ESRC:"Main Report" and "CRIC Performance Indicators 1997-2006".
'Instituted Or Embedded? Legal, Fiscal and Economic Institutionalisation of Markets' by Mark Harvey
'Beyond Efficiency and Market Shares: Competition within the Finnish Games Industry' by Mirva Peltoniemi
'Accounting for Economic Evolution: Fitness and the Population Method' by Stan Metcalfe
'Innovation and Final Consumption: Social Practices, Instituted Modes of Provision and Intermediation' by Andrew McMeekin & Dale Southerton
'Alfred Marshall’s Mecca: Reconciling the Theories of Value and Development' by Stan Metcalfe