TaSC research features in new ESRC Magazine

TaSC’s research on social change in an e-Society features in the inaugural edition of the ESRC’s Society Now magazine.The research, which was funded by the ESRC’s e-Society Programme used historical cross-national time-use data to analyse the impact of new technologies, and especially new information and communication technologies on everyday behaviour. Lead by TaSC’s Dr Ben Anderson and involving researchers from both TaSC and the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), the project showed that predictions about the effects of the new wave of technological advances may prove to be overblown. Rather than the grand transformation beloved by commentators, there seems to be a process of evolutionary co-adaptation at work. More information, including publications and slide-casts from a public seminar held at the IPPR are available.