John Farrington's research while affiliated with University of Aberdeen and other places

... In general, governments augmented their investment in various economic sectors, particularly in ICT infrastructure, during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, only a comparatively small proportion of these investments were allocated to rural areas (Palmer-Abbs et al., 2021). Given that villages are scattered and there are not a lot of ICT users in rural areas, it is not economical for the private sector to spend money on digitalizing these regions (McMahon and Akçayır, 2022). ...

... Philo, 1992) and attending to difference and 'otherness', giving a voice to marginalised, overlooked and discriminated against individuals and groups. A concern with inequalities in rural society implicitly framed, for example, Farrington's work on accessibility in rural areas (Farrington & Farrington, 2005;Halden, Farrington, & Copus, 2002), the development of an accessibility policy appraisal tool (Farrington et al., 2004) and rural community transport as a means of developing social capital and promoting social inclusion (Gray, Shaw, & Farrington, 2006). Lorna Philip was one of four individuals who joined the staff of the Geography Department in 2004 following institutional changes that led to the closure of the Department of Land Economy, a department that had a strong reputation for rural social science research. ...

... As long as one of the participants ranked the indicator as having at least "some importance", it remained in the index. The method of aggregating multiple metrics of sustainability with different units and scales used is based on previous studies using a similar methodology [105,106]. ...

... A resilient approach to transport should be based on the use of new ways of managing user access in order to ensure social distance and transport safety and with the support, including promotional support, of new apps for mobility management (in the Mobility as a Service model) in the case of local public transport (such as buses, streetcars, metro, railways) and cab services, they should also catalyze medium and long-distance travel between different districts or from municipalities in the metropolitan area and the rest of the region [83,84]. Demand responsive or shared services can complete the public transport offer, performing the service exclusively by booking and transporting one passenger at a time (or two if they live together). ...

... Il s'agit, notamment pour l'usage de la voiture, de bénéfices d'estime de soi, de sentiments de maîtrise, d'autonomie, de protection et de prestige, d'autoréalisation et d'affirmation de soi [13,[20][21][22]. En outre, une composante sociale et/ou identitaire peut intervenir, en tant que la voiture particulière (VP) peut permettre l'expression d'une position sociale, d'un statut [23], de l'appartenance à un certain groupe [24], d'afficher un capital symbolique [25]. La voiture permet aussi l'incarnation d'attributs désirables, notamment la modernité, la liberté et l'individualité [15]. ...

... In particular, Philip et al. (2017) report that speed and reliability of broadband connection are significantly determined by the 'last mile' distance between users and the communications network. If the 'last mile' exceeds approximately 1.2 km, superfast broadband that uses cables and copper wires (e.g., Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines (ADSL), Fibre broadband, etc) is no longer available and speeds are then limited (Farrington et al., 2015;Philip et al., 2017). Alternatively, gigabit-capable infrastructure, such as 4G and 5G wireless networks, can bring economic and social benefits through enhanced productivity and innovation . ...

... The 5G network has already been implemented by several nations, including the United States, Canada, certain European nations, Australia, China, and Japan. However, there is still a digital gap, with almost 80% of rural residents in the UK missing 4G connectivity, which makes it difficult to install cutting-edge smart technologies in rural regions (Philip et al., 2017). However, since 2017, 5G has been successfully applied to smart farming, revolutionizing processes like crop harvesting, fertilization, and the application of pesticides and seeds using drones and autonomous tractors (Ajmani and Saigal, 2023). ...

... This disregard for structural inequalities also affects policies that aim to decrease the digital divide. Analyzing community resilience through broadband deployment, Ashmore et al. (2017) highlighted the community's vulnerability rooted in uneven access to the capital (network, knowledge, and skills). They also showed that dynamics of power and identity in the relationship between a community and its leaders could impact a low-level buy-in to a broadband scheme among community members. ...

... 'Infrastructuring' regards collaborative spaces to the extent that the latter ones are phenomena related to emerging organisations of work combined with the innovations of information and communication technologies . In other words, collaborative spaces, especially those in peripheral areas, raise new challenges regarding the tension between mobility (Mariotti et al. 2017) and connectivity (Williams et al. 2016)). Given those venues are also attributable to the broad paradigm of the knowledge-based economy, collaborative spaces have been infrastructures to produce and distribute information within a so-called 'space of flows' (Castells 2000). ...

... The continuous prevalence of e-commerce in the UK, China, Africa, the BRICS countries, and other developed and developing countries is of great significance for the revitalization of rural areas in the world [1][2][3]. In the past decade, the digitalization represented by e-commerce has been reshaping China's rural society at an unimaginable speed [4]. ...