Simeon John Yates

• Communication Studies
• Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor Research Environment and Post-Graduate Research at University of Liverpool

In the fast-paced, densely populated information landscape shaped by digitization, distinguishing information from misinformation is critical. Fact-checkers are effective in fighting fake news but face challenges such as cognitive overload and time pressure, which increase susceptibility to cognitive biases. Establishing standards to mitigate these...

In this chapter we present our own work on developing the idea of Data Literacy and reflect on the potential to develop democratic education for data citizenship . In our work we link ideas from Dewey (New Republic 61:294–296, 1930) and Freire (Pedagogy of the oppressed (revised). Continuum, 1970/1996), with ideas from Nussbaum (Int Stud Rev 4(2),...

The Networked Society has brought about opportunities, such as citizens’ journalism, as well as challenges, such as the proliferation of media distortions. To keep up which such a sheer amount of (mis)information, citizens need to develop critical media literacy. We believe that, even though not enough to guarantee a gatekeeping process, human-comp...

This is an interim report which covers the first stage of the Minimum Digital Living Standard (MDLS) research. It reports on the development of MDLS and provides initial findings on what members of the public think is needed to meet MDLS for households with children. This proof-of-concept research establishes that the approach can provide not only...

To counter the fake news phenomenon, the scholarly community has attempted to debunk and prebunk disinformation. However, misinformation still constitutes a major challenge due to the variety of misleading techniques and their continuous updates which call for the exercise of critical thinking to build resilience. In this study we present two open...

This report covers a project commissioned by the Welsh Government to develop a Minimum Digital Living Standard for Wales (W-MDLS). It builds on a UK wide project funded by the Nuffield Foundation and Nominet to develop a UK Minimum Digital Living Standard (MDLS). In developing an MDLS for Wales we are examining one of the key issues that the pa...

In this paper we present the findings from the third phase of our (redacted) project on citizens data literacies. The data literacies framework we developed - Data Citizenship - stemmed from an analysis of recent literature on data and digital literacy combined with ideas from democratic education. In particular, we focus on the power imbalance bet...

This paper presents findings on the correspondence of levels of digital systems and media use with a range of socio-economic and demographic measures in the U.K. Most research on inequalities in regard to digital systems and media has focused on access and skills. Building on prior work (Yates and Lockley, 2018; Yates, et al., 2015) we argue that i...

As more of our everyday lives become digital, it has become crucial to include everyone in the digital society. This special issue is examining the different layers of digital inclusion and data literacy by drawing on research, policy, and practice developments around literacies in various regions and contexts. It highlights the politics around the...

In this paper we examine what 'data literacy'-under various definitions-means at a time of persistent distribution of 'dis-/mis-/mal-information' via digital media. The paper first explores the definition of literacies (written, media, information, digital and data literacies) considering the various parameters and considerations they have gone thr...

In this article, we discuss an innovative audience research methodology developed for the AHRC-funded ‘Beyond the Multiplex: Audiences for Specialised Film in English Regions’ project (BtM). The project combines a computational ontology with a mixed-methods approach drawn from both the social sciences and the humanities, enabling research to be con...

In this article, we discuss an innovative audience research methodology developed for the AHRC-funded “Beyond the Multiplex: Audiences for Specialised Film in English Regions” project (BtM). The project combines a computational ontology with a mixed-methods approach drawn from both the social sciences and the humanities, enabling research to be con...

This paper focuses on patterns of film consumption within cultural consumption more broadly to assess trends in consumerism such as eclectic consumption, individualised consumption and omnivorous/univorous consumption and whether economic background and status feature in shaping cultural consumption. We focus on film because it is widely consumed,...

This paper focuses on patterns of film consumption within cultural consumption more broadly to assess trends in consumerism such as eclectic consumption, individualised consumption and omnivorous/univorous consumption and whether economic background and status feature in shaping cultural consumption. We focus on film because it is widely consumed,...

This paper discusses a methodology that seeks to address one of the challenges in working with a range of data in mixed-methods audience research, which is how to sort, order and categorise different data so that it can be systematically combined and interrogated. The methodology was developed as part of the ‘Beyond the Multiplex: audiences for spe...

Background:This article explores the relationship between social class and social media use and draws on the work of Pierre Bourdieu in examining class in terms of social, economic, and cultural capital. The article starts from a prior finding that those who predominantly only use social media formed a higher proportion of Internet users from lower...

This paper takes a national perspective on issues of digital media use. The paper draws upon the OfCom Media Literacy 2013 survey to explore how digital media use varies in regard to two major social variables – class and age. Both class and age feature predominantly in UK policy on digital access and use. Class and age are invoked as either things...

This paper describes some possible uses of Formal Concept Analysis in the detection and monitoring of Organised Crime. After describing FCA and its mathematical basis, the paper suggests, with some simple examples, ways in which FCA and some of its related disciplines can be applied to this problem domain. In particular, the paper proposes FCA-base...

Just as with the development of the PREVENT agenda in the context of community policing, there is a need to develop a range of approaches to identifying and countering online extremist views with credible voices. There is, therefore, a need to identify a common profile of self-radicalized individuals, and also the process of self-radicalization. Th...

Threats to nations and their citizens—be they human made or natural—are often moments of crisis and can have a huge impact on individuals, communities, businesses, and societies. Preventing, mitigating, or supporting resilience in the face of such crises remains a major role for nation states. Yet we inhabit a world where nations may be replaced by...

For the successful monitoring and combatting of Serious Organised Economic Crime (SOEC) and fraud, further integration of Member States systems across Europe is needed. This paper describes a system for strategic intelligence management providing a more coherent and coordinated approach for detecting and deterring SOEC and fraud. The EMPRISES frame...

The ATHENA project brings together major user communities with world leading experts in crisis management and experts and technology developers of mobile and social media use and development. The goal of the ATHENA project is to deliver outputs that will enable and encourage users of new media to contribute to the security of citizens in crisis sit...

Strategic Intelligence Management introduces both academic researchers and law enforcement professionals to contemporary issues of national security and information management and analysis. This contributed volume draws on state-of-the-art expertise from academics and law enforcement practitioners across the globe. The chapter authors provide backg...

Crises are becoming a ubiquitous phenomenon and are—like the example of Hurricane Isaac—typically surrounded by complex social and technical factors beyond the competence of generalist leaders. By their very nature, crises are associated with considerable uncertainty. Knowing this, crisis managers frequently call upon experts to provide relevant in...

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of some "unofficial" factors in Search Engine Optimisation. A summary of official Google guidelines is given followed by a review of "unofficial" ranking factors as reported by a number of experts in the field of Search Engine Optimisation". These opinions vary and do not always agree. Experiments on keyword d...

This paper describes the use of sociodrama action methods within a design thinking workshop created to support marketing planning for a new product innovation. Participants were a digital sector SME and researchers within a UK university knowledge transfer programme. The paper (1) discusses the theoretical foundations of design thinking and sociodr...

The increasing growth of online businesses in last decades has resulted in complexity of interactions and consumer behavioral patterns in so many aspects. Therefore, many researchers keep on presenting an integrated model of the effective factors in online consumer behavior and their satisfaction. In this paper the applications of Fuzzy Cognitive...

E-health in the developed countries has increased significantly in recent years, and yet these healthcare services are rapidly reaching a point of inflection. The rise in health expenditure, the burden of the ageing population, and the growing expectations of citizens are all contributing towards large-scale restructuring in the 'way' that healthca...

This paper explores the relationship between Enterprise Strategy and Knowledge Management (KM) deployment and argues that successful KM deployment requires a holistic architecture. Based on an industrial consulting project and an action research cycle, a three tier Reference Architecture (RA) for KM deployment is recommend, which addresses the stra...

The goal of this book has been to try and explore, through a range of examples, how the work of law enforcement agencies (LEAs) can be enhanced, developed or is being changed by contemporary information and communication technologies (ICTs). To this we have added the need for European or broadly cross-national cooperation in the fight against crime...

This volume brings together a range of chapters which address the linkage between law enforcement, the uses of and developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and key ideas about the management of information, intelligence and knowledge in this domain. The book is split into three sections. Section 1 presents four chapters whi...

In this chapter we propose a conceptual framework for use by Law Enforcement Agencies when developing methodologies to best strategically manage intelligence in the context of crime and terrorism detection and prevention. Conceptually we define strategic intelligence management as: "A term that reflects an evaluable framework for a complex matrix o...

Gun crime – that is potential and actual illegal events in which firearms, ammunition and other ballistic items are involved – happens widely across the EU, though the levels and definitions of such events vary. Such variations come from the multiple methods, systems and legal frameworks in EU member States. The majority of law enforcement agencies...

Knowledge has become as a key strategic component of economic development. The World Development Report published by the World Bank precisely emphasized: "For countries in the vanguard of the world economy, the balance between knowledge and resources has shifted so far toward the former that knowledge has become perhaps the most important factor de...

Criminal investigations generate large volumes of complex data that detectives have to analyse and understand. This data tend to be "ﾘsiloed' within individual jurisdictions and re-using it in other investigations can be difficult. Investigations into trans-national crimes are hampered by the problem of discovering relevant data held by agencies...

The current rapid development in both computing power and the ability to present and mine complex data sets in useful ways provides the backdrop to Intelligence Management: Knowledge Driven Frameworks for Combating Terrorism and Organized Crime. The chapters address the linkage between: law enforcement; developments in information and communication...

The term ‘disconnection’ in the title of our chapter refers to a disjuncture between individuals and officialdom. According to Easton and Dennis (1967, p. 26), a politically efficacious person is able ‘to construct a psychic map of the political world with strong lines of force running from himself to the place of officialdom’. In this sense, we pr...

Ballistic systems providers and crime data repositories currently do not effectively share and cross-correlate data from different sources. This paper will focus on the application of ontology-driven technologies to leverage interoperability between heterogeneous systems within a Pan-European Odyssey security project. An integrated data model will...

© 2009 IADIS. Ballistic systems providers and crime data repositories currently do not effectively share and cross-correlate data from different sources. This paper will focus on the application of ontology-driven technologies to leverage interoperability between heterogeneous systems within a Pan-European Odyssey security project. An integrated da...

This paper provides an overview and position statement on the work undertaken as part of a project to explore the implementation of Scrum in the context of an interactive digital media software development company. The project is being undertaken in the Communication and Computing Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University.

A healthy balance between social and task-oriented activities helps teamwork. In virtual teams, e-mail texts must often carry both task-oriented and socio-emotional communication between individuals. While some theories of computer-mediated communication suggest socio-emotional exchange may not be well supported in e-mail communications, research d...

A healthy balance between social and task-oriented activities helps teamwork. In virtual teams, e-mail texts must often carry both task-oriented and socio-emotional communication between individuals. While some theories of computer-mediated communication suggest socio-emotional exchange may not be well supported in e-mail communications, research d...

An investigation of smartcard technologies and e-consultation systems in local government, taking place in Sheffield and the Black Country, used older people as part of the usability testing and evaluation panels. A number of workshops were conducted in late 2004 to elicit requirements and explore usability of the proposed smartcard products. Many...

This paper re-examines a number of recent discussions of computer-mediated communication (CMC) in the light of debates concerning gender, identity and inequality. There have been many claims made by disparate groups and institutions, from educators and technologists, through to the advertising of communications companies, which have claimed that CM...