Register articles
- We-think, I-think... and Groupthink
- The 'Funky Business' consultants want to poke you
- Where does web2.0 leave the BBC?
- Long lunching luddites show world how to do IT
- Maddy: TV torture for the ADD generation
- TV's ipod moment?
- The cold, cold heart of Web 2.0
- Hasselhoff, paedophiles and a digital animal farm
- Ask.com's bogus information revolution
Think tank Publications
- 'Is Online Community a Policy Tool? (IPPR 2004)' [pdf]
- Markets in the Online Public Sphere (ippr 2005)
- Modernising with Purpose: A Manifesto for a Digital Britain (ippr 2005)
- Proxicommunication: ICT and the Local Public Realm (Work Foundation 2004)
- Public Innovation: Intellectual Property in a Digital Age (ippr 2006)
- You Don't Know Me, But...: Social Capital & Social Software (Work Foundation 2003)
- Trade Union Membership and the Internet: Lessons from Civil Society (ippr 2004) [pdf]
Biography
My name is Will Davies, I live in London and I recently submitted a PhD in the Sociology and Cultural Studies departments at Goldsmiths, London, supported by the ESRC. In October I will begin a Research Fellowship at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at Oxford Business School. I'm currently leading a project on 'Reinventing the Firm' for Demos, where I am an associate.
I am also a Fellow of The Young Foundation, a participant in the NYLON research network, a Trustee of the Media Standards Trust and the Frank Haines Memorial Trust and an Associate Editor of Renewal. I blog occasionally at First Drafts.
I do regular consultancy and speaking work for a range of clients. If you would like to know more about me and my work, please see my CV or email me at will[at]potlatch.org.uk
Some more articles I've written:
A Liberal Defence of Money, The Liberal, April 2009
Economics and the 'nonsense' of law: the case of the Chicago antitrust revolution [pdf] Economy & Society (forthcoming) - This is a preprint of an article submitted for consideration in Economy & Society © 2009 [copyright Taylor & Francis]; Economy and Society is available online at http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk
The Limits of Expertise [pdf] Renewal (September 2008)
Book review of The New Spirit of Capitalism by Boltanski and Chiapello [doc], Renewal (September 2007)
What does free market collectivism mean for the Left?, Soundings, Left Futures Debate (June 2007)
Open to all RSA Journal (Debate with George Osborne MP, June 2007)
Tax credits: the success and failure, Prospect (June 2007)
Internet Politics, BBC Thinking Allowed (January 2007)
The Governmentality of New Labour [doc], Public Policy Research (January 2007)
Against Community, Prospect (November 2006)
The Changing of the Guard, Open Democracy (June 2006)
Ideas Interview, The Guardian (May 2006)
Beyond Communitarianism and Consumerism' [doc], Renewal (March 2006)
After TV interview, with Andrew Keen (March 2006)
Digital Exuberance, Prospect (February 2006)
Open or closed: how the net will be won, Computing (December 2005)
Evidence-based policy and democracy, Open Democracy (November 2005)
The Age of Surveillance: a new 'dotcom boom'?, Open Democracy (August 2005)
Is it Aldous Huxley or George Orwell?, The New Statesman (August 2005)
Book review of New Television Old Politics, New Media & Society (July 2005)
Don't assume that improving IT alone will bridge the digital divide, The Times (January 2005)
Is Efficient Government Necessarily Good Government?, Public Service Director (January 2005)
'Circling the Wagons: The Net Politics of Exclusion', The Register (November 2004)
How to Tame Capitalism, The New Statesman (September 2004)
'But Tony Blair, I Sent You an Email!', Open Democracy (July 2004)
'Communication in the 21st Century', lecture given at Royal Society of Arts, October 2003.
'Army Ants, Spiked Online (September 2003)
