Informing the Good Society (InGSoc): New Directions in Information Policy

告知美好社会（InGSoc）：信息政策的新方向

• 批准号: AH/K002899/1
• 负责人: Alistair Duff
• 金额: $ 21.84万
• 依托单位: Edinburgh Napier University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK002899%2F1
• 关键词: Informing; Good; Society; InGSoc; New

Information policy has become a field of great national and international importance. We live in the Information Age, and our culture is being transformed in numerous ways by high technology and the explosive growth of communications. Good decisions need to be made about the role of information in society and that is what the information policy specialism addresses. InGSoc, short for Informing the Good Society: New Directions in Information Policy, aims to make information policy ready to face the challenges of this century. InGSoc has been designed as a three-part programme of research. The first component is a population census project, to be conducted by a PhD student. The widespread practice of regular national population surveys may have interested statisticians and social scientists but it has been neglected by the arts and humanities. InGSoc intends to shed a new type of light on this key information institution, asking about its origins, rationale, ethics, interface, and future. It will be particularly interested in what the migration (already partially implemented in the 2011 UK census) from print formats to online might mean for public policy. This represents a bold new direction for information policy research. The second part is an 'epunditry' project. Everything seems to be going 'e', from electronic publishing to egovernment, and political commentary and punditry are no exception. This project, to be carried out on a part-time basis by an experienced researcher, will examine the emergence of bloggers and other online experts, or would-be experts, against the backdrop of rapidly declining newspaper circulations. Are they up to the job of replacing the 'fourth estate'? Do we even need pundits in this age of access? These important yet still unanswered questions are ultimately about how to secure a healthy flow of information in society. The third InGSoc project will dig down into the theoretical foundations of information policy. It will revisit some of the great British thinkers of the past, people like T. H. Green, Edward Caird and John Stuart Mill, and ask what their social philosophies imply for key information issues facing the world today. Those issues include freedom of information, the digital divide, the defence of personal privacy, intellectual property, and internet regulation and governance. This foundational study, which will be covered by the principal investigator for one day a week alongside oversight of the programme a whole, will make sure that InGSoc research is both 'deep and wide'. InGSoc will be based at the Centre for Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University's leading research centre according to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Its goal is to produce a substantial body of new and important work, including a book, a dissertation and a series of major research articles, singly- and jointly-authored. The team will also disseminate their findings through national and international conference presentations, aiming not just at information policy specialists but at the wider academic community. Experts from a range of disciplines, and journalists and others from outside the academy, will give guest talks at the University. The 36-month programme will conclude on a high note with a multidisciplinary symposium. All this should help to ensure that the information policy field gains the recognition that it deserves. InGSoc's key findings will be also be aggressively promoted to policy-makers and the public through a dynamic website, newspaper articles, and, when available, public debates and radio and television appearances. In these practical ways, InGSoc can be relied upon to result in a wider appreciation of the value of information policy in the development of what the famous American columnist-cum-social philosopher Walter Lippmann called 'the good society' (An Inquiry into the Principles of the Good Society, Little, Brown & Co., 1937).

信息政策已成为一个具有重大国家和国际意义的领域。我们生活在信息时代，高科技和通讯的爆炸性增长正以多种方式改变着我们的文化。需要对信息在社会中的作用做出正确的决定，这就是信息政策专业所要解决的问题。InGSoc是“告知美好社会：信息政策新方向”的缩写，旨在使信息政策准备好面对本世纪的挑战。InGSoc被设计为一个由三部分组成的研究项目。第一部分是人口普查项目，将由一名博士生进行。定期进行全国人口调查的广泛做法可能引起了统计学家和社会科学家的兴趣，但却被艺术和人文学科所忽视。InGSoc打算以一种新的方式来揭示这个关键的信息机构，询问它的起源、基本原理、伦理、接口和未来。它将特别感兴趣的是，从印刷格式到在线格式的迁移（已在2011年英国人口普查中部分实施）对公共政策可能意味着什么。这代表了信息政策研究的一个大胆的新方向。第二部分是一个“考古”项目。从电子出版到电子政务，一切似乎都在“电子化”，政治评论和权威也不例外。这个项目将由一位经验丰富的研究员兼职执行，将在报纸发行量迅速下降的背景下，研究博客和其他在线专家或准专家的出现。他们能胜任取代“第四阶层”的工作吗？在这个信息普及的时代，我们还需要权威人士吗？这些重要但仍未得到解答的问题最终是关于如何确保社会中信息的健康流动。第三个InGSoc项目将深入研究信息政策的理论基础。它将重温过去一些伟大的英国思想家，如t·h·格林、爱德华·凯尔德和约翰·斯图亚特·密尔，并询问他们的社会哲学对当今世界面临的关键信息问题意味着什么。这些问题包括信息自由、数字鸿沟、个人隐私保护、知识产权以及互联网监管和治理。这项基础研究将由首席研究员每周负责一天，同时对整个项目进行监督，这将确保英社的研究既深入又广泛。根据2008年的研究评估，InGSoc将以爱丁堡纳皮尔大学的领先研究中心——社会信息学中心为基础。它的目标是产生大量新的和重要的工作，包括一本书，一篇论文和一系列主要的研究文章，单独或共同撰写。该小组还将通过国家和国际会议的发言传播他们的研究结果，不仅针对信息政策专家，而且针对更广泛的学术界。来自不同学科的专家、记者和学院以外的其他人将在牛津大学作客座演讲。为期36个月的方案将以一个多学科专题讨论会圆满结束。所有这些都应该有助于确保信息政策领域获得应有的认可。InGSoc的主要研究结果也将通过动态网站、报纸文章、公开辩论、广播和电视节目等方式积极地向决策者和公众宣传。在这些实际的方法中，英社可以依赖于对信息政策价值的更广泛的认识，这是美国著名专栏作家兼社会哲学家沃尔特·李普曼（Walter Lippmann）所说的“好社会”（《对好社会原则的调查》，Little, Brown & Co., 1937）的发展。

项目成果

The ecology of the ePundit: Surveying the new opinion-making landscape

ePundit 的生态：调查新的舆论格局

• DOI: 10.5210/fm.v21i4.6351
• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: First Monday
• 作者: Forrest E

Information (encyclopaedia entry)

信息（百科词条）

• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Alistair Duff

Refusing to serve 'the most effortless food': Reflections on the absence of photography in opinion pages and the use of the image within ePunditry

拒绝提供“最轻松的食物”：对意见页面中缺乏照片以及在 ePunditry 中使用图像的反思

• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Forrest E

The Fellowship of the Net

网络联谊会

• DOI: 10.1163/15697320-12341482
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: International Journal of Public Theology
• 影响因子: 0.4
• 作者: Duff A

Human freedom in an information society: Greenian idealism and the new socio-technical reality

信息社会中的人类自由：格林理想主义和新的社会技术现实

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Duff AS