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In the News
29 November 2006 - Internet in Britain - We are interested in bringing together statistical analyses of internet use in the UK and are holding a one day workshop at the London School of Economics. 15 November 2006. Professor Roger Burrows is interviewed on Radio 4's Thinking Allowed Programme highlighting geodemographic classifications of neighbourhoods within academic and commercial sociology. website 02 November 2006 - A report on the surveillance society has been published by leading experts in the field of surveillance including members of the e-Society programme. The report can be viewed here (pdf) or read more from the BBC website 29 August 2006- Pension web sites. Does your scheme have one? Awareness of pension scheme web sites is considerably higher among employees than the self-employed... Just one of the findings from the Pensions Online e-society project. Their press release can be read here (pdf) 7 August 2006 - Test drive your e-user type. People in Great Britain can be assigned to one of twenty-three "e-types", according to research funded by the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) e-society programme. More information can be found on our press release and also by looking at the project page.
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What is e-Society?Why go to the supermarket, when you can fill up your virtual basket in half the time? Who are your children chatting to for hours online? Text your local MP, diagnose an illness or search for a new house online....Our day-to-day practices are changing at an unprecedented speed. As we become more and more attached to digital technologies, there is a growing need to understand their immediate and long-term implications... The ESRC E-Society is the largest ever-academic research programme to investigate the impact of digital technologies, particularly the internet on society. Original and insightful findings from the programme are already helping both policy makers and industry to respond better to the needs and demands of the new e-society citizen. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and now run out of the Department of Sociology at the University of York, this £6.5 million programme draws on the expertise of leading academics from across the UK. Launched in October 2003, the programme will run until the end of October 2007. Twenty-eight projects from across the social sciences are producing key findings in six related areas of research:
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