Roger Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3713543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6266-1793 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Responsible application of artificial intelligence to surveillance
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most significant of the information and communications technologies being applied to surveillance. AI’s proponents argue that its promise is great, and that successes have been achieved, whereas its detractors draw attention to the many threats embodied in it, some of which are much more problematic than those arising from earlier data analytical tools. This article considers the full gamut of regulatory…
Researcher Perspective in the Is Discipline
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of “researcher perspective” in articles published in the AIS Basket of 8 journals. Design/methodology/approach Purposive sampling: descriptive analysis of 659 articles published in three complete years of each of the eight leading journals (2001, 2008, 2015). Findings When observing phenomena, IS researchers mostly adopt the perspective of one of the stakeholders in the activities, common…
The Regulation of Point of View Surveillance
During the last century a variety of surveillance technologies have arrived, have been deployed, and have had impacts on society, both significantly positive and seriously negative. One of these, digital cameras, emerged in the late 1980s, and quickly developed into a means of creating high-quality images and video. These cameras have become both inexpensive and sufficiently small to be not merely carried but also worn
Surveillance by the Australian Media, and Its Regulation
The print and broadcast media make extensive use of surveillance in order to gather information for publication. It is vital to democracy that they do so. A proportion of the media's surveillance practices are, however, excessive and abusive of individuals' needs and reasonable expectations. An examination of Australian law shows that it provides almost no recourse against these excesses and abuses. Substantial change is necessary to create a reg…
Questioning Ray Kurzweil [Letters to the Editor]
Presents letters sent to the editor regarding previous articles from this publication or other relevant topics of discussion
The Challenging World of Privacy Advocacy
The power and reach of government agencies and corporations have increased greatly in the last few decades, and the prospects, and threats, inherent in so-called “public private partnerships” now loom large. The terrorist attacks of the first decade of the new century have been ruthlessly exploited by national security agencies not only to recover but to considerably extend their powers, to give them even greater freedom from democratic controls,…
Cyborg Rights
The process of cyborgization harbors great promise, but also significant threats. The scope for inequitable access to potentially beneficial prostheses is enormous, and so is the risk of a backlash against orthoses that are perceived to be "unnatural" or potentially harmful. Political, social, and economic institutions must grapple with the fruits of the labors of information and communications technologies, and they must be in formed by the prof…
Jim Fyrth 1918-2010
Hubert James (Jim) Fyrth, who died in Torbay on 24 May 2010, aged ninety-two, was a distinguished historian and adult educator with a special interest in trade-union and labour history. His books ranged across political and cultural history of twentieth-century Britain; they included histories of the Popular Front, of the Aid Spain Movement in 1930s Britain, two edited volumes on the politics and culture of postwar Britain and a remarkable memoir…
What is Überveillance? (And What Should Be Done About It?)
Corporate marketers have promoted technologies as means to monitor the behavior of all manner of things. Governments have suspended their disbelief and permitted agencies to buy technologies and install monitor systems. Some corporations have imposed similar schemes on their employees and their customers. The old concepts of private, controlled, and public places have given way to private, controlled, and public spaces
Social Impacts of Transport Surveillance
The transport sector is a natural focal point for surveillance measures to combat the threat of terrorism. It is also a complex environment that offers many examples of the social impacts of contemporary surveillance. Surveillance needs to be assessed against the standards used to justify other forms of security measures. The efficacy of many surveillance schemes, however, is in serious doubt. Justification for these schemes is commonly either la…
A proposal for an open content licence for research paper (Pr)ePrints
Many academic papers that are to be submitted to refereed conferences and journals have been previously exposed to the author’s colleagues. The term ‘preprints’ has long been used to describe such documents. ‘Departmental Working Paper’ series were for many years a conventional vehicle for their publication. In the modern world, preprints are frequently transmitted electronically, variously as e–mail attachments and as files available for downloa…
Multinational Enterprises and Technological Effort by Local Firms
It is often assumed that foreign MNEs are the driving force behind technological development in developing economies but it has become evident in recent years that the actions of MNEs in isolation from the domestic economy will not significantly improve the stock of technology in an economy. This study, therefore, examines the determinants of local firms' decisions to undertake technological effort, not only in isolation, but also in the context …
Freedom of information
There's a common presumption that the Internet has brought with it the promise of openness, democracy, the end of inequities in the distribution of information, and human self-fulfillment. Any such conclusion would be premature. The digital era has amused and beguiled us all. Its first-order impacts are being assimilated, but its second-order implications are not. Powerful institutions perceive their interests to be severely threatened by the las…
Electronic support for the practice of research
Developments in information technology services during the previous and current decades are argued to have very significant implications for the conduct, and even the nature, of research. These changes should not be thought of as predictable, linear developments, not even as mere discontinuous functions. They constitute a revolution, challenging established notions of the research process. Conventional economics is not appropriate as a means of u…
The digital persona and its application to data surveillance
The digital persona is a model of the individual established through the collection, storage, and analysis of data about that person. It is a useful and even necessary concept for developing an understanding of the behavior of the new, networked world. This paper introduces the model, traces its origins, and provides examples of its application. It is suggested that an understanding of many aspects of network behavior will be enabled or enhanced …
Sunk Costs and Market Structure
Journal Article Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising and the Evolution of Concentration Get access Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising and the Evolution of Concentration. By John Sutton. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 1991. Pp. 577. £29.95 hardback. ISBN 0 262 19305 1.) Roger Clarke Roger Clarke University of Wales Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
The Supply of Beer
Journal Article The Supply of Beer: A Report on the Supply of Beer for Retail Sale in the United Kingdom Get access The Supply of Beer: A Report on the Supply of Beer for Retail Sale in the United Kingdom. By the MONOPOLIES AND MERGERS COMMISSION. (London: HMSO, 1989. Pp. vi + 501. £22.00 paperback. ISBN 0 10 106512 4.) Roger Clarke Roger Clarke Cardiff Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The E…
Information technology and dataveillance
Data surveillance is now supplanting conventional surveillance techniques. With this trend come new monitoring methods such as personal dataveillance and mass dataveillance that require more effective safeguards and a formal policy framework.
Just another piece of plastic in your wallet
During 1985-87 the Australian Government developed a proposal for a national identification scheme. With public concern about the scheme's implications increasing, the Australia Card Bill was defeated in the Senate in November 1986 and again in April 1987. This paper outlines the proposal, and comments on its technical features, its economics, its implications and its prospects
The Economics of Business Enterprise
Journal Article The Economics of Business Enterprise: New Approaches to the Firm Get access The Economics of Business Enterprise: New Approaches to the Firm. By Martin Ricketts. (Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1987. Pp. xii + 306. £20.00 hardback, £8.95 paperback.) Roger Clarke Roger Clarke Tulane University, New Orleans and Sheffield University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue…
Aggregate Concentration, Market Concentration and Diversification
Journal Article Aggregate Concentration, Market Concentration and Diversification Get access R. Clarke, R. Clarke University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar S. W. Davies S. W. Davies University of East Anglia and National Institute of Economic and Social Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 369, 1 March 1983, P…
Market Structure and Price-Cost Margins
In a paper that has become a standard reference in the structure-conductperformance approach to industrial economics, Cowling and Waterson (1976) developed a theoretical rationale for expecting industry profitability to be positively correlated with the level of concentration. Their model, based on a simple algebraic description of oligopoly behaviour, has been interpreted as providing a justification for the common empirical practice of cross-in…
Mergers and Economic Performance
The cost profiles of alternative approaches to journal publishing
The digital era is having substantial impacts on journal publishing. In order to assist in analysing these impacts, a model is developed of the costs incurred in operating a refereed journal. Published information and estimates are used to apply the model to a computation of the total costs and per-article costs of various forms of journal-publishing. Particular attention is paid to the differences between print and electronic forms of journals, …
The digital persona and its application to data surveillance
The digital persona is a model of the individual established through the collection, storage, and analysis of data about that person. It is a useful and even necessary concept for developing an understanding of the behavior of the new, networked world. This paper introduces the model, traces its origins, and provides examples of its application. It is suggested that an understanding of many aspects of network behavior will be enabled or enhanced …
The Economics of Business Enterprise
Journal Article The Economics of Business Enterprise: New Approaches to the Firm Get access The Economics of Business Enterprise: New Approaches to the Firm. By Martin Ricketts. (Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1987. Pp. xii + 306. £20.00 hardback, £8.95 paperback.) Roger Clarke Roger Clarke Tulane University, New Orleans and Sheffield University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue…
Aggregate Concentration, Market Concentration and Diversification
Journal Article Aggregate Concentration, Market Concentration and Diversification Get access R. Clarke, R. Clarke University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar S. W. Davies S. W. Davies University of East Anglia and National Institute of Economic and Social Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 369, 1 March 1983, P…
Sunk Costs and Market Structure
Journal Article Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising and the Evolution of Concentration Get access Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising and the Evolution of Concentration. By John Sutton. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 1991. Pp. 577. £29.95 hardback. ISBN 0 262 19305 1.) Roger Clarke Roger Clarke University of Wales Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Responsible application of artificial intelligence to surveillance
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most significant of the information and communications technologies being applied to surveillance. AI’s proponents argue that its promise is great, and that successes have been achieved, whereas its detractors draw attention to the many threats embodied in it, some of which are much more problematic than those arising from earlier data analytical tools. This article considers the full gamut of regulatory…
Electronic support for the practice of research
Developments in information technology services during the previous and current decades are argued to have very significant implications for the conduct, and even the nature, of research. These changes should not be thought of as predictable, linear developments, not even as mere discontinuous functions. They constitute a revolution, challenging established notions of the research process. Conventional economics is not appropriate as a means of u…
The Supply of Beer
Journal Article The Supply of Beer: A Report on the Supply of Beer for Retail Sale in the United Kingdom Get access The Supply of Beer: A Report on the Supply of Beer for Retail Sale in the United Kingdom. By the MONOPOLIES AND MERGERS COMMISSION. (London: HMSO, 1989. Pp. vi + 501. £22.00 paperback. ISBN 0 10 106512 4.) Roger Clarke Roger Clarke Cardiff Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The E…
Market Structure and Price-Cost Margins
In a paper that has become a standard reference in the structure-conductperformance approach to industrial economics, Cowling and Waterson (1976) developed a theoretical rationale for expecting industry profitability to be positively correlated with the level of concentration. Their model, based on a simple algebraic description of oligopoly behaviour, has been interpreted as providing a justification for the common empirical practice of cross-in…
The cost profiles of alternative approaches to journal publishing
The digital era is having substantial impacts on journal publishing. In order to assist in analysing these impacts, a model is developed of the costs incurred in operating a refereed journal. Published information and estimates are used to apply the model to a computation of the total costs and per-article costs of various forms of journal-publishing. Particular attention is paid to the differences between print and electronic forms of journals, …
Market Structure and Price-Cost Margins
In a paper that has become a standard reference in the structure-conductperformance approach to industrial economics, Cowling and Waterson (1976) developed a theoretical rationale for expecting industry profitability to be positively correlated with the level of concentration. Their model, based on a simple algebraic description of oligopoly behaviour, has been interpreted as providing a justification for the common empirical practice of cross-in…
Mergers and Economic Performance
Aggregate Concentration, Market Concentration and Diversification
Journal Article Aggregate Concentration, Market Concentration and Diversification Get access R. Clarke, R. Clarke University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar S. W. Davies S. W. Davies University of East Anglia and National Institute of Economic and Social Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 369, 1 March 1983, P…
The Economics of Business Enterprise
Journal Article The Economics of Business Enterprise: New Approaches to the Firm Get access The Economics of Business Enterprise: New Approaches to the Firm. By Martin Ricketts. (Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1987. Pp. xii + 306. £20.00 hardback, £8.95 paperback.) Roger Clarke Roger Clarke Tulane University, New Orleans and Sheffield University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue…
Information technology and dataveillance
Data surveillance is now supplanting conventional surveillance techniques. With this trend come new monitoring methods such as personal dataveillance and mass dataveillance that require more effective safeguards and a formal policy framework.
Just another piece of plastic in your wallet
During 1985-87 the Australian Government developed a proposal for a national identification scheme. With public concern about the scheme's implications increasing, the Australia Card Bill was defeated in the Senate in November 1986 and again in April 1987. This paper outlines the proposal, and comments on its technical features, its economics, its implications and its prospects
The Supply of Beer
Journal Article The Supply of Beer: A Report on the Supply of Beer for Retail Sale in the United Kingdom Get access The Supply of Beer: A Report on the Supply of Beer for Retail Sale in the United Kingdom. By the MONOPOLIES AND MERGERS COMMISSION. (London: HMSO, 1989. Pp. vi + 501. £22.00 paperback. ISBN 0 10 106512 4.) Roger Clarke Roger Clarke Cardiff Business School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The E…
Sunk Costs and Market Structure
Journal Article Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising and the Evolution of Concentration Get access Sunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising and the Evolution of Concentration. By John Sutton. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 1991. Pp. 577. £29.95 hardback. ISBN 0 262 19305 1.) Roger Clarke Roger Clarke University of Wales Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Electronic support for the practice of research
Developments in information technology services during the previous and current decades are argued to have very significant implications for the conduct, and even the nature, of research. These changes should not be thought of as predictable, linear developments, not even as mere discontinuous functions. They constitute a revolution, challenging established notions of the research process. Conventional economics is not appropriate as a means of u…
The digital persona and its application to data surveillance
The digital persona is a model of the individual established through the collection, storage, and analysis of data about that person. It is a useful and even necessary concept for developing an understanding of the behavior of the new, networked world. This paper introduces the model, traces its origins, and provides examples of its application. It is suggested that an understanding of many aspects of network behavior will be enabled or enhanced …
Freedom of information
There's a common presumption that the Internet has brought with it the promise of openness, democracy, the end of inequities in the distribution of information, and human self-fulfillment. Any such conclusion would be premature. The digital era has amused and beguiled us all. Its first-order impacts are being assimilated, but its second-order implications are not. Powerful institutions perceive their interests to be severely threatened by the las…
Multinational Enterprises and Technological Effort by Local Firms
It is often assumed that foreign MNEs are the driving force behind technological development in developing economies but it has become evident in recent years that the actions of MNEs in isolation from the domestic economy will not significantly improve the stock of technology in an economy. This study, therefore, examines the determinants of local firms' decisions to undertake technological effort, not only in isolation, but also in the context …
A proposal for an open content licence for research paper (Pr)ePrints
Many academic papers that are to be submitted to refereed conferences and journals have been previously exposed to the author’s colleagues. The term ‘preprints’ has long been used to describe such documents. ‘Departmental Working Paper’ series were for many years a conventional vehicle for their publication. In the modern world, preprints are frequently transmitted electronically, variously as e–mail attachments and as files available for downloa…
Social Impacts of Transport Surveillance
The transport sector is a natural focal point for surveillance measures to combat the threat of terrorism. It is also a complex environment that offers many examples of the social impacts of contemporary surveillance. Surveillance needs to be assessed against the standards used to justify other forms of security measures. The efficacy of many surveillance schemes, however, is in serious doubt. Justification for these schemes is commonly either la…
What is Überveillance? (And What Should Be Done About It?)
Corporate marketers have promoted technologies as means to monitor the behavior of all manner of things. Governments have suspended their disbelief and permitted agencies to buy technologies and install monitor systems. Some corporations have imposed similar schemes on their employees and their customers. The old concepts of private, controlled, and public places have given way to private, controlled, and public spaces
Cyborg Rights
The process of cyborgization harbors great promise, but also significant threats. The scope for inequitable access to potentially beneficial prostheses is enormous, and so is the risk of a backlash against orthoses that are perceived to be "unnatural" or potentially harmful. Political, social, and economic institutions must grapple with the fruits of the labors of information and communications technologies, and they must be in formed by the prof…
Jim Fyrth 1918-2010
Hubert James (Jim) Fyrth, who died in Torbay on 24 May 2010, aged ninety-two, was a distinguished historian and adult educator with a special interest in trade-union and labour history. His books ranged across political and cultural history of twentieth-century Britain; they included histories of the Popular Front, of the Aid Spain Movement in 1930s Britain, two edited volumes on the politics and culture of postwar Britain and a remarkable memoir…
The Challenging World of Privacy Advocacy
The power and reach of government agencies and corporations have increased greatly in the last few decades, and the prospects, and threats, inherent in so-called “public private partnerships” now loom large. The terrorist attacks of the first decade of the new century have been ruthlessly exploited by national security agencies not only to recover but to considerably extend their powers, to give them even greater freedom from democratic controls,…
Questioning Ray Kurzweil [Letters to the Editor]
Presents letters sent to the editor regarding previous articles from this publication or other relevant topics of discussion
The Regulation of Point of View Surveillance
During the last century a variety of surveillance technologies have arrived, have been deployed, and have had impacts on society, both significantly positive and seriously negative. One of these, digital cameras, emerged in the late 1980s, and quickly developed into a means of creating high-quality images and video. These cameras have become both inexpensive and sufficiently small to be not merely carried but also worn
Surveillance by the Australian Media, and Its Regulation
The print and broadcast media make extensive use of surveillance in order to gather information for publication. It is vital to democracy that they do so. A proportion of the media's surveillance practices are, however, excessive and abusive of individuals' needs and reasonable expectations. An examination of Australian law shows that it provides almost no recourse against these excesses and abuses. Substantial change is necessary to create a reg…
Researcher Perspective in the Is Discipline
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of “researcher perspective” in articles published in the AIS Basket of 8 journals. Design/methodology/approach Purposive sampling: descriptive analysis of 659 articles published in three complete years of each of the eight leading journals (2001, 2008, 2015). Findings When observing phenomena, IS researchers mostly adopt the perspective of one of the stakeholders in the activities, common…
Responsible application of artificial intelligence to surveillance
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most significant of the information and communications technologies being applied to surveillance. AI’s proponents argue that its promise is great, and that successes have been achieved, whereas its detractors draw attention to the many threats embodied in it, some of which are much more problematic than those arising from earlier data analytical tools. This article considers the full gamut of regulatory…
Computer Science (18 works) · Business (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Economics (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Computer security (8 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Internet privacy (4 works)