Professor Brian Bloomfield
BSc (Lancaster), PhD (Open)
Chair
Department
Organisation Work and Technology
Current Teaching
Undergraduate:
OWT.326 Organising in the Digital Age: Power, technology & identity
OWT.327 Technology and Organisation: Society and risk
Postgraduate:
M.Sc. Information Technology, Management and Organisational Change:
- ITO.001 Interpretations of Information, Technology and Organisations
- ITO.005 Social Aspects of the Digital Age
MA Human Resource and Knowledge Management:
- OWT.508 Research in Organisational Settings
Research Interests
The sociology of science and technology. Issues of power and knowledge in relation to the development and use of information technology. Problems of order/disorder and technology. Technology, time and narrative. The modernisation of public services.
Chapter (3)
Journal article (13)
Book (1)
Working paper (4)
Selected publications (11)
View all publications (21)
Journal article (13)
Book (1)
Working paper (4)
Selected publications (11)
View all publications (21)
Publications
- Bloomfield B P and Vurdubakis T, 2005, 'The secret of Yucca Mountain', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol 23, no. 5, pp. 735-756.
View details - Bloomfield B P and McLean C, 2003, 'Beyond the walls of the asylum: information and organization in the provision of community mental health services', Information and Organization, vol 13, pp. 53-84.
View details - Bloomfield B P and Vurdubakis T, 2003, 'Imitation games: Turing, Menard, Van Meegeren', Ethics and Information Technology, vol 5, no. 1, pp. 27-38.
View details - Bloomfield B P, 2003, 'Narrating the future of intelligent machines: the role of science fiction in technological anticipation', in Narratives We Organize By, unknown, N/A, pp. 193-212
View details - Bloomfield B P and Vurdubakis T, 2002, 'The vision thing: constructing technology and the future in management advice', in Critical Consulting: New Perspectives on the Management Advice Industry, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 115-129, ISBN: 063121819X
View details - Bloomfield B P, 2001, 'In the right place at the right time: electronic tagging and problems of social order/disorder', The Sociological Review, vol 49, no. 2, pp. 174-201.
View details - Bloomfield B P and Vurdubakis T, 1999, 'The outer limits: monsters, actor networks and the writing of displacement', Organization, vol 6, no. 4, pp. 625-647.
View details - Bloomfield B P and Vurdubakis T, 1997, 'The revenge of the object: on AI as a cultural enterprise', Social Analysis, vol 41, no. 1, pp. 29-45.
View details - Bloomfield B P and Vurdubakis T, 1997, 'Visions of organisation and organisations of vision: the representational practices of information systems development', Accounting, Organizations and Society, vol 22, no. 7, pp. 639-668.
View details - Bloomfield B P and Vurdubakis T, 1997, 'Paper traces: inscribing organisation and information technology', in Information Technology and Organizations: Strategies, Networks and Integration, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 85-111, ISBN: 0198289391
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