A roadmap for research on identity in the information society

Halperin, Ruth and Backhouse, James (2008) A roadmap for research on identity in the information society. Identity in the Information Society, 1 (1). ISSN 1876-0678

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Abstract

As research into identity in the information society gets into its stride, with contributions from many scholarly disciplines such as technology, social sciences, the humanities and the law, a moment of intellectual stocktaking seems appropriate. This article seeks to provide a roadmap of research currently undertaken in the field of identity and identity management showing how the area is developing and how disparate contributions relate to each other. Five different perspectives are proposed through which work in the identity field can be seen: tensions, themes, application areas, research focus and disciplinary approaches and taken together they provide a comprehensive overview of the intellectual territory currently being tilled by academia on this subject. This attempt at a coherent overview is offered in the spirit of debate and discussion, and the authors invite criticism, development and improvement. Another purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the range and type of research that the new journal Identity in the Information Society will publish, giving researchers working in the field a clearer idea of the scope of multidisciplinary study that is envisaged.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.springerlink.com/content/1876-0678
Additional Information:	© 2008 Springer
Divisions:	Management
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	31 Mar 2009 08:15
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 22:26
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/23548

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