Volume 21 Issue 2 (2003)
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Patient Power? Medical Perspectives on Patient Use of the Internet
Patients and carers now have unprecedented access to health information via specialist journals and the popular media, while the worldwide web has revolutionised public access to clinical information. Levels of…
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Sporadic Innovation and Historical Continuity
This article argues that, by appealing to technological factors, one can compare different innovations, even different economies, over time. An application is made to the development of steam engines and…
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Telecommunication Basic Research: An Uncertain Future for the Bell Legacy
The Bell Labs of decades ago was well recognized as a national treasure for its pioneering innovations and its creation of new knowledge. However, the breakup of the Bell System…
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The Viagra Files: The Web as Anticipatory Medium
The article introduces the research behind the making of Viagratool.org, the Lay Decision Support System on the World Wide Web. Viagratool.org is a ‘web knowledge instrument’ made to provide realities…
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The Hegemony of Microsoft®: An Australian Story
Each Australian state and the Australian Capital Territory has signed a ‘whole of education department’ contract with the Microsoft® Corporation for the provision of operating systems and other software. This…
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Phenomenological Turbulence and Innovation in Knowledge Systems
Most considerations of knowledge management focus on corporations and, until recently, considered knowledge to be objective, stable, and asocial. In this paper we wish to move the focus away from…
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Federalism in the Regulation of Chemical Pollutants in Australia
In response to the growth of the environment movement and increasing citizen concern for the environment, the Commonwealth and the Australian states moved to set up government departments of environment,…