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Dr Alistair Duff

Former Visiting Fellow
Alistair Duff

Dr Alistair Duff

Former Visiting Fellow

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Alistair Duff is a visiting affiliate professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow and a guest lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He is emeritus professor of information policy at Edinburgh Napier University.

From Nottingham, he read philosophy at the Universities of London and Glasgow. He was a research officer for an NGO before engaging in research and tutoring in political theory. He then completed a master’s degree in information studies at the University of Strathclyde and worked professionally in academic librarianship. He subsequently became a lecturer at ENU, teaching on journalism, publishing, communication, and information and social science programmes.

Duff is the author of Information Society Studies (Routledge, 2000) and A Normative Theory of the Information Society (Routledge, 2012), and editor of the Research Handbook on Information Policy (Edward Elgar, 2021). He is the author of many scholarly articles, including “Castells versus Bell”, European Journal of Social Theory, “On political ePunditry”, Journalism Studies, and “Contra Bentham”, Journal of Information Ethics.

He has presented his research several times in Japan and the United States, as well as a dozen European countries.

As a freelance journalist, he has presented community radio series, as well as contributing to a range of media outlets, such as The Atlantic.com, Newsnight, Scotland Tonight, Reporting Scotland, The Independent, Ethical Census News, and the Sunday Express. He has spoken in debates on various platforms, including the Alba Party and the Oxford Union.

YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@alduff1229 

During his visiting fellowship at the Oxford Internet Institute, funded by the Art and Humanities Research Council, he researched information policy and the societal distribution of information and news.

Positions at the OII

  • Visiting Fellow, October 2006 - September 2007

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