Leslie Haddon : leshaddon@aol.com Personal home page: http://members.aol.com/leshaddon/Index.html Visiting Research Associate (Media and Communications, Sociology Department, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE UK).
Recent research With a doctorate on the development of home computing, Leslie Haddon has for the last decade worked chiefly on the social shaping and consumption of ICTs. EC projects include the High Level Group of Experts report, telematics projects and issues of social exclusion (ACTS-FAIR) and the role of users, especially the disabled and elderly, within ICT development (TIDE). He has worked for companies such as BT, TeleDanmark, Telewest, Telecom Italia and NCR - co-ordinating a recent 5 country study of the Internet in the home.
Network & Affiliation He is part of a European network of researchers. In the past this included EMTEL (European Media, Technology and Everyday Life Network) (EMTEL@ ) and COST248 (Cost248@ ). Now it includes the new EMTEL programme (NEMTEL@ ) and COST269.
Recent Paper Haddon, L. and Silverstone, R. (1996) ‘Le Télétravail et l’Évolution des Relations entre le Domicile et le Travail’, Reseaux, No.79, September-October. Silverstone, R. and Haddon, L. (1996) ‘Design and the Domestication of Information and Communication Technologies: Technical Change and Everyday Life’, in Silverstone, R. and Mansell, R (eds) Communication by Design. The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies, Oxford University Press, Oxford Haddon, L.(1998) ‘The Experience of Teleworking: A View from the Home’, in Jackson, P. and Van de Wielen, J.(eds) Teleworking: International Perspectives. From Telecommuting to the Virtual Organisation, Routledge, London.
Interest in Cost269 Participation in COST269 provides the chance to find out about research and issues relating to ICTs at a European level and to interact with researchers working in the same areas in order to explore themes of mutual interest.