Dr Simon Jones
Senior Lecturer
Department: Business Information Systems
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 4299
- E-mail: s.jones@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
PhD, Cultural Studies (University of Birmingham)
BA, History (University of Sussex)
Research Interests
- Legal, cultural and economic implications of music file-sharing technologies
- Social networking services and online communities
Teaching Interests
- BIS3328 -Social, Professional and Ethical Issues in Information Systems(Module Leader)
- BIS1212 - Introduction to Business Computing
Biography
Positions:
- Senior Lecturer
- ProgrammeLeader - BSc Business Information Technology; BSc Information TechnologyandBusiness Information Systems; BSc Business Information Management
Publications:
- Penny Duquenoy, Simon Jones and Barry Blundell (2008) Ethical, Legal and Professional Issues in Computing (Thomson).
- Simon Jones (Forthcoming) "Ethical and Legal Issues in Information Systems" in Rahanu, H. et al Business Information Systems Middlesex University Press).
- Duquenoy, P., Jones, S., Rahanu, H. Diaper, D (2005) Social, Legal and Professional Issues of Computing. Middlesex University Press.
- Simon Jones and Russell Pearson (2004) Information Technology in Organisations. Middlesex University Press.
- Simon Jones (1995) "Rocking the house: Sound system and DJ cultures" Journal of Popular Music Studies, vol 1, no 2.
- Simon Jones (1993) "Crossover Culture: Popular music and the politics of 'race'" Stanford Humanities Review, vol 3. no. 2.
- Simon Jones and Thomas Schumacher (1992) "Muzak: on functional music and power" Critical Studies in Mass Communication, vol. 9, no. 2.
- Simon Jones (1990) "Music and Symbolic Creativity" in Paul Wills (Ed.) Common Culture: Symbolic Work at Play in the Everyday Cultures of the Young, Open University Press.
- Simon Jones (1989) "Black music and young people in Birmingham" in Flemming Rogilds (Ed.) Every Cloud has a Silver Lining: Studies in Cultural Sociology, Akademisk Forlag.
- Simon Jones (1988) Black Culture, White Youth: The Reggae Tradition from JA to UK, Macmillan.
