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		<title>Talking to imagined citizens: Why share information when no-one talks back?</title>
		<link>https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2020/04/09/talking-to-imagined-citizens-why-share-information-when-no-one-talks-back/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Cruickshank]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 12:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a subject I&#8217;ve been thinking about for a long time: the old eparticipation problem of lurkers.  I described the challenges of understanding posting to a non-responsive audience in blog posts here and here, back in 2017, when I &#8230; <a href="https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2020/04/09/talking-to-imagined-citizens-why-share-information-when-no-one-talks-back/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Community representatives, information channels and citizen democratic engagement</title>
		<link>https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/community-representatives-information-channels-and-citizen-democratic-engagement/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Cruickshank]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2018 10:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a link to something I co-authored with Hazel Hall and Bruce Ryan: a paper which explores how elected (yet unpaid) community councillors in Scotland exploit information channels for democratic engagement with the citizens that they represent. We demonstrate that &#8230; <a href="https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/community-representatives-information-channels-and-citizen-democratic-engagement/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Keep up with my current research</title>
		<link>https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/keep-up-with-my-current-research/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Cruickshank]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you are interested in my current research in the areas of community, (hyper)local democracy, connections and knowledge, visit Community-KNect]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Community representatives and online communication</title>
		<link>https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/community-representatives-and-online-communication/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Cruickshank]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Information behaviour]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Community Councils]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In previous research, we have observed the poor record of online engagement of community councils in Scotland, though I doubt this is issue is restricted only to this context. With some notable exceptions, Community Council online presences are characterised by &#8230; <a href="https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/community-representatives-and-online-communication/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lurking and what leaders know about their invisible audience</title>
		<link>https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2017/02/17/lurking-and-what-leaders-know-about-their-invisible-audience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s talk about something obvious: Leaders (for instance community councillors) share information online but the paradox is, that they often don&#8217;t get a visible response. Why do they do it then? What are their expectations of how the information they &#8230; <a href="https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2017/02/17/lurking-and-what-leaders-know-about-their-invisible-audience/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Information literacy to support democratic engagement</title>
		<link>https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/information-literacy-to-support-democratic-engagement/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Cruickshank]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2016 11:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[e-participation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information behaviour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Councils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engagement]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our latest community councillor project is now well underway. It&#8217;s called IL-DEM, and we&#8217;re blogging about it on our community knowledge website (Community-Knect.net) it focusses on the information behaviours of community councillors in Scotland as they go about their role &#8230; <a href="https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/information-literacy-to-support-democratic-engagement/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hear from postgraduate MSc Business Information Technology students</title>
		<link>https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/hear-from-postgraduate-msc-business-information-technology-students/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Cruickshank]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just published a short video publicising the MSc course I lead. I&#8217;m biased, but I do think it&#8217;s a great programme &#8211; there are not many places that offer such a good opportunity to strengthen your portfolio of business &#8230; <a href="https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/hear-from-postgraduate-msc-business-information-technology-students/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A modest proposal&#8230; for the ECI</title>
		<link>https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/improve-eu-eci-democracy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Cruickshank]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[e-participation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[e-petitions]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A commonsense proposal for making the EU's Citizen Initiative (ECI) more lightweight and effective - based on some old research. <a href="https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/improve-eu-eci-democracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Risks, controls &#038; incident handling, and why they matter</title>
		<link>https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2016/04/20/risks-controls-incident-handling-and-why-they-matter/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Cruickshank]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 07:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Audit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[information security]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I hosted a longish lecture &#38; discussion this morning with a small but select mix of MBA students from Providence College School of Business and Edinburgh Napier computing students. They had been working on a project to visualise some security &#8230; <a href="https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2016/04/20/risks-controls-incident-handling-and-why-they-matter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What can TOE say about information security?</title>
		<link>https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/toe-information-security-technology-adoption/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Cruickshank]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Methodologies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In which I continue to argue that information security should be explicitly mapped to all levels of the T-O-E technology adoption model. <a href="https://spartakan.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/toe-information-security-technology-adoption/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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