Dr Leslie Haddon

Leslie Haddon and Nicola Green were the series editors for the 'New Media' series of textbooks from Berg (subsequently Bloomsbury) . The titles in this series are:

• Pierson, J. and Bauwens, J. (2015) Digital Broadcasting, Bloomsbury, London
• Hope, C. and Ryan, J. (2014) Digital Arts, Bloomsbury, London
• Hjorth, L. (2011) Games and Gaming, Berg Oxford.
• Green, L. (2010) The Internet, Berg, Oxford.
• Green, N. and Haddon, L. (2009) Mobile Communications, Berg Oxford.
  
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Useful Resources

• Mobile phone
• Internet

During the 1990s Leslie was for seven years co-editor of a trade journal 'The Intelligent Home'. Over the past 20 years he had undertaken numerous and diverse commercial research projects (e.g. organising focus groups on home automation, jointly writing an 'Innovator's Handbook', looking at disability and telework, conducting research for the Integer project that was developing 'green and intelligent homes', interviewing people about the take-up of cable TV and the later the early adoption and non-adoption of the internet, conducting literature reviews on social issues relating to ICTs, examining how people budget when using mobile phones and interviewing children about their particular experiences of mobile phones).

Key publications

Design of ICTs:

• Haddon, L (2002) 'Information and Communication Technologies and the Role of Consumers in Innovation', in McMeekin, A., Green, K., Tomlinson, M. and Walsh, V. (eds) Innovation by Demand: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Demand and its Role in Innovation, Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 151-67.

Various projects and literature reviews:

• Haddon, L. (2004) Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life: A Concise Introduction and Research Guide, Berg, Oxford.
  
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In the mid-1990s Leslie was part of the ACTs-FAIR project reviewing European telematics programmes for the EC and in the late-90s he was part the of an EC project looking at the users who were envisaged by ICT designers and the broader adoption of Design for All principles. He helped devise and analyse a five-country survey of ICT use in Europe in the mid-90s, funded by Telecom Italia. In 2000 he participated in the EURESCOM (European trade association for telecoms) project looking at European attitudes to ICTs and was subsequently involved in research for UMTS Forum (Mobile phone trade association). At the same time he was on the steering committee of and wrote a chapter for the EC funded e-Living project. More recently he was one of the experts working for the EC, evaluating whether internet companies had met their commitments about safer internet principles.

Leslie has been a visiting researcher at TeleDenmark (Denmark), Chalmers (Sweden) and Hallym University (South Korea). Since the 1990s he has participated in the EMTEL research network European Media, Technology and Everyday Life Network, (1994-7) and three European COST Actions: COST248 (The Future Telecommunications User, 1992-7), COST269 (User Aspects of ICTs, 1999-2004) and COST298 (Participation in the Broadband Society, 2006-10).

Key publications

5-country study:

• Haddon, L. (1998) 'Il Controllo della Comunicazione. Imposizione di Limiti all'uso del Telefono' [The Control of Communication: Imposing limits on telephony], in Fortunati, L (Ed.) Telecomunicando in Europa, Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 195-247.

e-Living:

• Haddon, L. and Brynin, M. (2005) 'The Character of Telework and the Characteristics of Teleworkers', New Technology, Work and Employment, Vol.20, No.1.
• Brynin , M. and Haddon, L. (2007) 'What Does Telework Tell Us About Teleworkers?', in Anderson, B., Brynin, M, Gershuny, J. and Raban, J. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Society, Routledge, London, , pp.222-32.

Korea visit:

• Haddon, L. and Kim, S-D. (2007) 'Mobile Phones and Web-based Social Networking - Emerging Practices in Korea with Cyworld', The Journal of the Communications Network. Vol.6, No.1, January-March.

Children and mobile phones

• Ling, R. and Haddon, L. (2008) 'Mobile Emancipation: Children, Youth and the Mobile Phone', in Dortner, K. and Livingstone, L. (eds) International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture, Sage, London, pp.137-51.
• Haddon, L. and Vincent, J. (2009) 'Children's Broadening Use of Mobile Phones', in Goggin, G. and Hjorth, L. (eds) Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media, Routledge, London, pp.37-49.
• Haddon L. and Ólafsson, K. (2014) 'Children and the mobile internet', in Goggin, G. and Hjorth, L. (eds) The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media, Abingdon, Routledge, pp, 300-311.

COST

• Haddon, L. and Kommonen, K-H (2005) 'Interdisciplinary Explorations: A Dialogue between a Sociologist and a Design Group', in Haddon, L. (Ed.) International Collaborative Research. Cross-cultural Differences and Cultures of Research, COST, Brussels.
• Haddon, L, Mante, E., Sapio, B., Kommonen, K-H, Fortunati, L and Kant, A (eds) (2005) Everyday Innovators, Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs, Springer, Dordrect.
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• Loos, E., Haddon, L. and Mante-Meijer, E. (eds) (2008) The Social Dynamics of Information and Communications Technology, Ashgate. Aldershot.
• Loos, E., Haddon, L. and Mante-Meijer, E. (eds) (2012) Generational Use of New Media, Ashgate. Aldershot.
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• Haddon, L. (2011) The Contemporary Internet: National and Cross-National European Studies, Peter Lang, Frankfurt
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