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Papers by John Naughton

Journal of Cyber Policy, 2016

The Internet is now over four decades old. A survey of its evolution from a military experiment c... more The Internet is now over four decades old. A survey of its evolution from a military experiment conducted in the context of the Cold War to a General Purpose Technology illustrates the extent to which the network was shaped, not just by the intrinsic affordances of its underpinning technologies, but also by political, ideological, social, and economic factors.

MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research, 2014

Based on his keynote lecture at the international conference on Digital Humanities at Aalborg Uni... more Based on his keynote lecture at the international conference on Digital Humanities at Aalborg University in April 2014, John Naughton refl ects on being an engineer in a Humanities research institute that is currently seeking to adapt to the digital potentials and challenges. Th e Humanities represent an analytical, critical, or speculative approach whereas the so-called hard sciences focus on problem solving. Naughton discusses why he agrees with the authors of the Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0 and why the digitisation of the Humanities not only eff ects universities and scholars but also industrial and cultural life in general. To be honest, I feel like an intruder in this company. Full disclosure: I'm not a Humanities scholar. But I'm pleased to be here because two of the other speakers today were instrumental in getting me thinking about the subject of the symposium. When Helle Porsdam was a Fellow on the Arcadia Project (http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/index.php) that I ran at Cambridge University Library between 2008 and 2012, she started me thinking about Digital Humanities in the context of the famous 'two cultures' debates that raged in Cambridge in the early 1960s-and have resonated ever since wherever people gather to discuss such things. And then, on 18 April 2012, Jeff rey Schnapp gave a really memorable talk in Cambridge that left me thinking about why the transition from traditional to digital humanities might not be straightforward-which is what I want to talk about today.

Index on Censorship, 2000

New Perspectives Quarterly, 2007

Prologue: Why this book? Take the long view. The web is not the Net. For the Net, disruption is a... more Prologue: Why this book? Take the long view. The web is not the Net. For the Net, disruption is a feature, not a bug. Think ecology, not just economics. Complexity is the new reality. The network is now the computer. The Web is evolving. Copyrights and 'copywrongs': or why our Intellectual Property regime no longer makes sense. Orwell vs Huxley: the bookends of our networked future? Epilogue. Appendix. Acknowledgements. Glossary. Notes. Index.

Aiming at the insufficiency of thermal comfort standards of naturally ventilated buildings, the d... more Aiming at the insufficiency of thermal comfort standards of naturally ventilated buildings, the domestic existing thermal comfort evaluation models are introduced, including revised PMV models, climate adaptive models and its revised models. The results show that building energy saving potential can be well exerted by the use of thermal comfort models for naturally ventilated buildings to guide architectural design and the operation of air conditioning equipment. Chinese thermal comfort study samples are abundant, but have not yet established complete human thermal comfort research database. Therefore, it is difficult to form a standardized thermal comfort evaluation system. Various models have advantages and disadvantages when used to evaluate the indoor thermal comfort of naturally ventilated buildings. The follow-up studies should consider the error correction and focus on the combination of PMV model and adaptive model, and finally form a more comprehensive lumped parameter evaluation model which can combine the theories of human body heat balance and human body adaptability. Revised PMV Model PMVe model Fanger believes that there are two reasons for the fact that the PMV model overestimates the actual human body's thermal sensation. The first point is the estimation of human body's metabolic rate in

Design Studies, 1981

A recurring theme in recent design theory has been a desire to relate design method to scientific... more A recurring theme in recent design theory has been a desire to relate design method to scientific method: to create the 'science of design' or a 'design science'. There is an inherent paradox in such a desire since design and science are clearly very dissimilar kinds of activities. Further, the concept of 'scientific method' now seems to be in epistemological chaos. For these reasons, attempts to model design method on scientific method seem misplaced. It is proposed that it would be more fruitful to regard design as a technology, rather than as a science. The paper seeks to establish the basis for such a view, drawing especially on the idea that both design and technology involve the application of types of knowledge other than the purely 'scientific' kind. Suppe, E (ed) The structure of scientific theories (2nd