Elisabeth Davenport

Elisabeth Davenport is Professor of Information Management at Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, where she has led and been engaged in numerous research projects in this domain. Her research focus is the interaction of texts, tasks, and technologies in academic and professional domains, and in social contexts outside the workplace such as the home, or the political process and she has an extensive publications history in these areas. She is also Visiting Scholar in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Indiana.

Publications

Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Phil Turner, Susan Turner, Elisabeth Davenport. © 2009. 278 pages.
The emerging study of technology in space has been shaping human interaction with physical, social, and technological worlds. Drawing upon a wide range of information technology...
Double Agents: Visible and Invisible Work in an Online Community of Practice
Double Agents: Visible and Invisible Work in an Online Community of Practice
Elisabeth Davenport. © 2004. 11 pages.
This chapter reflects on work to create computer-supported Communities of Practice among small enterprises in the tourism sector and to establish a knowledge network for...
Interpersonal Trust in Online Partnerships: The Challenge of Representation
Interpersonal Trust in Online Partnerships: The Challenge of Representation
Elisabeth Davenport, Leo McLaughlin. © 2004. 18 pages.
In this chapter, trust is treated as a form of tacit knowledge that can be made explicit to some extent by means of knowledge management techniques such as codification and...
Technology to Support Participatory Democracy
Technology to Support Participatory Democracy
Ann Macintosh, Elisabeth Davenport, Anna Malina, Angus Whyte. © 2002. 23 pages.
This chapter focuses on the development, application and impact of information and communication technology on civic representation and participation in the democratic process....