Technology has penetrated the social fabric of security practices so deeply that it is often used without much reflection on its role, significance and implications. This naturalisation of technology makes it difficult for practitioners to develop their own vision of technology. They may become...

This paper aims to improve understanding of how innovations are diffused through combining perspectives on the adoption and consumption of innovation. The literature on the adoption of innovation mainly examines issues such as technical functionalities, utility and personality factors. In...

Joost Smiers is professor emeritus of Political Science of the Arts, research fellow in the Research Group Arts and Economics at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands. He works on decision-making in cultural matters worldwide, on new visions on copyright and the public domain, on...

Bill Dutton is director of the Oxford Internet Institute. He is also Professor of Internet Studies in the University of Oxford, and fellow of Balliol College.

Lucy Montgomery is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation at Queensland Institute for Technology in Brisbane. Her current work explores evolutionary approaches to understanding the role of copyright in creative innovation in China, Indonesia and Indigenous...