There are lots of problems with security education. The most serious, of course, is that we’re teaching security to the wrong people; we spend our time educating security specialists, rather than the application and system builders who are quite inadvertently creating the security holes that plague us. But there are problems even with what we teach specialists: we spend too much time on things ...

There are many lawyers and policymakers now engaged in debating laws concerning high speed broadband connections to the Internet. What do they mean by “the Internet”? Does it matter what they mean? This essay suggests that how “the Internet” is understood has substantial legal, social, and cultural consequences. In particular, what is meant by “the Internet” determines which actors’ voices will...

While AMN-3 clearly had other impacts on me, the conference had major benefi ts in terms of advancing one particular area of my research. I was extraordinarily fortunate to have in the audience during the talk I was giving focused on the work of Conrad Lendrum, one of my past PhD students, Michael Toney. Mike hails from SSRL (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory), which is part of SLAC (St...

Welcome to the latest issue of Publications, a journal for studies and opinion on all aspects of scholarly publishing and communication. A specific welcome from me too, as the new Editor-in-Chief. Our journal is fully “peer reviewed” or “refereed”. These expressions are synonymous although, despite modest research, I’ve not discovered the origin of the word “referee” in this context—if any of y...

Purpose – In MIP, Vol. 25 No. 1, Mike Saren argued that academic marketers need to move beyond our “traditional managerial and business confines”. This paper aims to suggest that the discipline is already on the move in that direction, and that social marketing is in the vanguard. Design/methodology/approach – Commissioned as a viewpoint, with permission to “think aloud”. Findings – The paper s...

Following two meetings as a discussion group in the previous international meetings, we moved forward to work within three specifically defined sub-groups formulating existing and future lines of inquiry with related data sets. We aimed to focus on the use of data, which ranged from qualitative think-aloud accounts to pre-post tests asking what is the role of data in our study. If there is a th...

While different approaches to evaluation will yield different results, depending on the purpose of the evaluation this article describes an evaluation approach that was aimed at investigation the mental models of users of the programme. The study was driven by questions about the differences in mental models of the instructional designers and the learners, the time learners spent working throug...

A while back a topologist friend asked me why the set of prime ideals of a ring deserved to be singled out for study. Another friend, a symplectic geometer, asked why anyone would want to put a scheme structure on the paramaters that classify a type of object (i.e. construct a moduli space). Algebraic geometry does have a reputation for being somewhat impenetrable (and I won’t say it’s undeserv...