Seamus Simpson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4379466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seamus Simpson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seamus |
| FAMILY NAME | Simpson |
| SIGNATURE | SIMPSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1814-4224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Impact of Attribute Agenda-Setting on Brand-Customer Engagement
Active consumer engagement on social media platforms can effectively enhance brand awareness, loyalty, and word-of-mouth. While numerous studies have examined the impact of content and media characteristics on consumer engagement (CE), the specific effect of different brand attributes on CE on Douyin remains underexplored. To address this research gap, this study applies attribute agenda-setting theory to explore how brand attributes drive consum…
Perspectives on citizen data privacy in a smart city – An empirical case study
Digitisation is arguably an inevitable feature of contemporary urban development, yet privacy issues arising from the mass data collection, transmission and processing it entails continue to be a poorly understood and contentious issue for people living in cities. This article uses a case study approach to provide new evidence of the detailed perspectives of citizens and policy makers on data privacy in rapidly digitising urban environments, with…
The limits of internet self-regulation – the EU’s policy for digital internet intermediaries
This article contributes to knowledge on EU policy for Internet intermediaries by providing a characterization and analysis of the system of governance for intermediaries set out initially in the 2000 Directive on E-Commerce and recently updated in the 2022 Digital Services Act. The article shows how the new regulatory system of the DSA, unlike its predecessor, is underpinned by a strong European public transnational network governance approach, …
Political economy, communications discourse and media policy
This article provides a contribution to knowledge on the growth of online news commenting in Nigeria. Specifically, it accounts for factors that influence the character of the often-fractious online discursive behaviour in evidence and what communication policy understandings might be developed from this. The article innovates by deploying a combined political economy–communication policy approach with two purposes in mind. First, drawing inspira…
The struggle for co-existence
Huge increase in the demand by the wireless sector to use the airwaves has trained focus on the classic policy problem of resource scarcity in the field. This article illuminates a part of wireless communication – unlicensed spectrum – where a particularly fractious debate over the future usage of such space has developed between incumbent Wi-Fi interests and new entrants from the field of licensed mobile communication. The case is novel in that …
Civil society activism, strategic alignment and international public policy making for spectrum
Academic work has noted a growth in the prominence of civil society in international political-economic life, yet the conditions under which such civil society presence is developed, the ways in which it is manifest and their implications are still incompletely understood. The recent international policy debate on the allocation of spectrum provides a useful case for research aiming to close this gap in knowledge and is the focus of this article.…
Regulation, Governance and Convergence in the Media
Intervention, net neutrality and European Union media policy
Net Neutrality was once in Europe thought to be a technically arcane subject with little policy relevance beyond the United States. However, its dominant articulation as the idea that Internet Service Providers should treat equally communication traffic of a broadly similar kind has emerged as a growing site for policy debate and contestation. Academic understanding of Net Neutrality is still in relative infancy, and work on the subject from a Eu…
The Interactive Nature of ‘Soft’ and ‘Hard’ Governance in the Eu Information Society
This article sheds light on the nature and significance of soft governance in that part of the EU's Information Society initiative which focuses on telecommunications. It illustrates a strong complementary relationship between hard and soft governance measures deployed by the EU. This is illustrated through examples in the policy-making and -implementation phases of EU telecommunications policy. The wider significance of the article lies in how i…
Imposing freedoms
Next generation network environments in Europe — The significance of the EU as a policy actor
Shaping the global communications milieu
New’ Governance in European Union Policy Making
This article makes a contribution to research on soft or ‘new’ governance in EU policy \nmaking by examining the recent history of telecommunications policy as a case study, a \nsector hitherto not widely recognised for displaying this kind of governance. Training its \nfocus on the process leading to the agreement of the latest iteration of the EU’s \nElectronic Communications Regulatory Framework, the article finds strong evidence \nthat soft g…
The European Union, multilateralism and the global governance of the Internet
Whilst the global governance architecture of the Internet has evolved \nat pace in the last 10 years, the European Union’s (EU) role and influence in its \ndevelopment has been relatively understudied. This article contributes to closing \nthis gap in the literature through an exposition of how the EU has sought to \nshape the emerging environment for Internet governance in the context of its \nquest for ‘effective multilateralism’. It identifies…
Supranationalism Through Institutionalization and Its Limits in European Telecommunications
The recent proposal of a European Electronic Communications Market Authority (EECMA) by the European Commission has turned out to be the most high profile and controversial element of the latest review of the EU's telecommunications regulatory framework, begun in 2006. EECMA provides an important example of the ‘intergovernmental’ and supranational-level tensions which exist in European telecommunications governance. This article argues that crea…
New Governance, the Internet, and Country Code Top‐Level Domains in Europe
Much academic work on governance in recent years has explored responses that states have made to sectors of the economy, usually historically well rooted nationally, that have been subject to globalizing pressures. Less work exists on responses that are being made to new parts of the economy emerging outside the nation state with inherently global characteristics. The Internet—and specifically its naming and addressing system—provides an example …
Globalization, the ‘Competition’ State and the Rise of the ‘Regulatory’ State in European Telecommunications
This article examines European telecommunications through the conceptual lenses of the ‘competition’ and the ‘regulatory’ state, exploring their complementarities and tensions. It analyses the EU's electronic communications regulatory framework, exposing contradictions in the EU‐level competition and regulatory state in telecommunications in the context of the well‐developed variety at the national level
Gaining a Stake in Global Internet Governance
The global governance of the Internet and the influence that the EU is able to exert in international governance institutions are two important topics that this article brings together in the context of the EU's relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), created in 1999 to manage strategically valuable technical resources and functions of the Internet. Employing Schimmelfennig's model of rational action in …
The Internet and Public–Private Governance in the European Union
The EU plays a significant role in public policy aspects of Internet governance, having created in the late 1990s the dot eu Internet Top Level Domain (TLD). This enables users to register names under a European online address label. This paper explores key public policy issues in the emergent governance system for dot eu, because it provides an interesting case of new European transnational private governance. Specifically, dot eu governance is …
Explaining the Commercialization of the Internet
This paper argues that a neo-Gramscian perspective can provide useful explanatory insights into the recent commercialization of the Internet. Governments, notably in the USA and Europe, have taken action to shape and smooth this transition in response to the desire of business to exploit a new commercial opportunity. A series of measures has been enacted in relatively new international fora whose general aim is to promote the development of inter…
Intra-Institutional Rivalry and Policy Entrepreneurship in the European Union
The topic of information and communications technology (ICT) convergence is now of primary interest to policy makers in industry and government at the national and international level, as well as the academic community. In 1997, the European Commission published a Green Paper on the matter, and subsequently launched a consultation process which resulted in a series of re-regulatory proposals as part of the 1999 Communications Review. In recent ye…
The European Union, multilateralism and the global governance of the Internet
Whilst the global governance architecture of the Internet has evolved \nat pace in the last 10 years, the European Union’s (EU) role and influence in its \ndevelopment has been relatively understudied. This article contributes to closing \nthis gap in the literature through an exposition of how the EU has sought to \nshape the emerging environment for Internet governance in the context of its \nquest for ‘effective multilateralism’. It identifies…
Globalization, the ‘Competition’ State and the Rise of the ‘Regulatory’ State in European Telecommunications
This article examines European telecommunications through the conceptual lenses of the ‘competition’ and the ‘regulatory’ state, exploring their complementarities and tensions. It analyses the EU's electronic communications regulatory framework, exposing contradictions in the EU‐level competition and regulatory state in telecommunications in the context of the well‐developed variety at the national level
New Governance, the Internet, and Country Code Top‐Level Domains in Europe
Much academic work on governance in recent years has explored responses that states have made to sectors of the economy, usually historically well rooted nationally, that have been subject to globalizing pressures. Less work exists on responses that are being made to new parts of the economy emerging outside the nation state with inherently global characteristics. The Internet—and specifically its naming and addressing system—provides an example …
The Internet and Public–Private Governance in the European Union
The EU plays a significant role in public policy aspects of Internet governance, having created in the late 1990s the dot eu Internet Top Level Domain (TLD). This enables users to register names under a European online address label. This paper explores key public policy issues in the emergent governance system for dot eu, because it provides an interesting case of new European transnational private governance. Specifically, dot eu governance is …
New’ Governance in European Union Policy Making
This article makes a contribution to research on soft or ‘new’ governance in EU policy \nmaking by examining the recent history of telecommunications policy as a case study, a \nsector hitherto not widely recognised for displaying this kind of governance. Training its \nfocus on the process leading to the agreement of the latest iteration of the EU’s \nElectronic Communications Regulatory Framework, the article finds strong evidence \nthat soft g…
Gaining a Stake in Global Internet Governance
The global governance of the Internet and the influence that the EU is able to exert in international governance institutions are two important topics that this article brings together in the context of the EU's relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), created in 1999 to manage strategically valuable technical resources and functions of the Internet. Employing Schimmelfennig's model of rational action in …
Intra-Institutional Rivalry and Policy Entrepreneurship in the European Union
The topic of information and communications technology (ICT) convergence is now of primary interest to policy makers in industry and government at the national and international level, as well as the academic community. In 1997, the European Commission published a Green Paper on the matter, and subsequently launched a consultation process which resulted in a series of re-regulatory proposals as part of the 1999 Communications Review. In recent ye…
Next generation network environments in Europe — The significance of the EU as a policy actor
Intra-Institutional Rivalry and Policy Entrepreneurship in the European Union
The topic of information and communications technology (ICT) convergence is now of primary interest to policy makers in industry and government at the national and international level, as well as the academic community. In 1997, the European Commission published a Green Paper on the matter, and subsequently launched a consultation process which resulted in a series of re-regulatory proposals as part of the 1999 Communications Review. In recent ye…
Explaining the Commercialization of the Internet
This paper argues that a neo-Gramscian perspective can provide useful explanatory insights into the recent commercialization of the Internet. Governments, notably in the USA and Europe, have taken action to shape and smooth this transition in response to the desire of business to exploit a new commercial opportunity. A series of measures has been enacted in relatively new international fora whose general aim is to promote the development of inter…
The Internet and Public–Private Governance in the European Union
The EU plays a significant role in public policy aspects of Internet governance, having created in the late 1990s the dot eu Internet Top Level Domain (TLD). This enables users to register names under a European online address label. This paper explores key public policy issues in the emergent governance system for dot eu, because it provides an interesting case of new European transnational private governance. Specifically, dot eu governance is …
Gaining a Stake in Global Internet Governance
The global governance of the Internet and the influence that the EU is able to exert in international governance institutions are two important topics that this article brings together in the context of the EU's relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), created in 1999 to manage strategically valuable technical resources and functions of the Internet. Employing Schimmelfennig's model of rational action in …
Globalization, the ‘Competition’ State and the Rise of the ‘Regulatory’ State in European Telecommunications
This article examines European telecommunications through the conceptual lenses of the ‘competition’ and the ‘regulatory’ state, exploring their complementarities and tensions. It analyses the EU's electronic communications regulatory framework, exposing contradictions in the EU‐level competition and regulatory state in telecommunications in the context of the well‐developed variety at the national level
Supranationalism Through Institutionalization and Its Limits in European Telecommunications
The recent proposal of a European Electronic Communications Market Authority (EECMA) by the European Commission has turned out to be the most high profile and controversial element of the latest review of the EU's telecommunications regulatory framework, begun in 2006. EECMA provides an important example of the ‘intergovernmental’ and supranational-level tensions which exist in European telecommunications governance. This article argues that crea…
New Governance, the Internet, and Country Code Top‐Level Domains in Europe
Much academic work on governance in recent years has explored responses that states have made to sectors of the economy, usually historically well rooted nationally, that have been subject to globalizing pressures. Less work exists on responses that are being made to new parts of the economy emerging outside the nation state with inherently global characteristics. The Internet—and specifically its naming and addressing system—provides an example …
New’ Governance in European Union Policy Making
This article makes a contribution to research on soft or ‘new’ governance in EU policy \nmaking by examining the recent history of telecommunications policy as a case study, a \nsector hitherto not widely recognised for displaying this kind of governance. Training its \nfocus on the process leading to the agreement of the latest iteration of the EU’s \nElectronic Communications Regulatory Framework, the article finds strong evidence \nthat soft g…
The European Union, multilateralism and the global governance of the Internet
Whilst the global governance architecture of the Internet has evolved \nat pace in the last 10 years, the European Union’s (EU) role and influence in its \ndevelopment has been relatively understudied. This article contributes to closing \nthis gap in the literature through an exposition of how the EU has sought to \nshape the emerging environment for Internet governance in the context of its \nquest for ‘effective multilateralism’. It identifies…
Shaping the global communications milieu
The Interactive Nature of ‘Soft’ and ‘Hard’ Governance in the Eu Information Society
This article sheds light on the nature and significance of soft governance in that part of the EU's Information Society initiative which focuses on telecommunications. It illustrates a strong complementary relationship between hard and soft governance measures deployed by the EU. This is illustrated through examples in the policy-making and -implementation phases of EU telecommunications policy. The wider significance of the article lies in how i…
Imposing freedoms
Next generation network environments in Europe — The significance of the EU as a policy actor
Intervention, net neutrality and European Union media policy
Net Neutrality was once in Europe thought to be a technically arcane subject with little policy relevance beyond the United States. However, its dominant articulation as the idea that Internet Service Providers should treat equally communication traffic of a broadly similar kind has emerged as a growing site for policy debate and contestation. Academic understanding of Net Neutrality is still in relative infancy, and work on the subject from a Eu…
Regulation, Governance and Convergence in the Media
Civil society activism, strategic alignment and international public policy making for spectrum
Academic work has noted a growth in the prominence of civil society in international political-economic life, yet the conditions under which such civil society presence is developed, the ways in which it is manifest and their implications are still incompletely understood. The recent international policy debate on the allocation of spectrum provides a useful case for research aiming to close this gap in knowledge and is the focus of this article.…
The struggle for co-existence
Huge increase in the demand by the wireless sector to use the airwaves has trained focus on the classic policy problem of resource scarcity in the field. This article illuminates a part of wireless communication – unlicensed spectrum – where a particularly fractious debate over the future usage of such space has developed between incumbent Wi-Fi interests and new entrants from the field of licensed mobile communication. The case is novel in that …
Political economy, communications discourse and media policy
This article provides a contribution to knowledge on the growth of online news commenting in Nigeria. Specifically, it accounts for factors that influence the character of the often-fractious online discursive behaviour in evidence and what communication policy understandings might be developed from this. The article innovates by deploying a combined political economy–communication policy approach with two purposes in mind. First, drawing inspira…
The limits of internet self-regulation – the EU’s policy for digital internet intermediaries
This article contributes to knowledge on EU policy for Internet intermediaries by providing a characterization and analysis of the system of governance for intermediaries set out initially in the 2000 Directive on E-Commerce and recently updated in the 2022 Digital Services Act. The article shows how the new regulatory system of the DSA, unlike its predecessor, is underpinned by a strong European public transnational network governance approach, …
Perspectives on citizen data privacy in a smart city – An empirical case study
Digitisation is arguably an inevitable feature of contemporary urban development, yet privacy issues arising from the mass data collection, transmission and processing it entails continue to be a poorly understood and contentious issue for people living in cities. This article uses a case study approach to provide new evidence of the detailed perspectives of citizens and policy makers on data privacy in rapidly digitising urban environments, with…
The Impact of Attribute Agenda-Setting on Brand-Customer Engagement
Active consumer engagement on social media platforms can effectively enhance brand awareness, loyalty, and word-of-mouth. While numerous studies have examined the impact of content and media characteristics on consumer engagement (CE), the specific effect of different brand attributes on CE on Douyin remains underexplored. To address this research gap, this study applies attribute agenda-setting theory to explore how brand attributes drive consum…
Political science (17 works) · Business (14 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Economics (12 works) · Corporate governance (11 works) · Law (11 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (10 works) · The Internet (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Telecommunications (8 works)