Talk:Technology and Social Change Centre

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The Technology and Social Change centre is a new point of research at the University of Essex attracting the interest of research students and commercial partners all over the world. The university has just begun advertising it, see:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/intro/pg/pdf/applied-social-technical.pdf

As part of the univeristy's Institute for Social and Technical Research, it's members are also responsible for generating social scientific data (E-living and Home Online) stored in various academic data archives and freely available to use, see:

http://www.esds.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=4728

for E-living and see:

http://www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal/access/otherData.asp#home

for Home Online.

To help disseminate the knowledge of research findings and to direct interested parties to publicly available social scientific datasets free to use and analyse, it is important that this entry remains in Wikipedia. I feel that it meets the criterion for doing so.

Wait, wait, wait. Are you saying this is an Advertisment too?-Carados (talk) 23:31, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

No, not at all. I am saying that independent data archives cite the institute as a place that generates social scientific data. The institute and its members are also named in journals, books, newspapers and web based articles. As these independent sources cite the organisation and its members, surely it is in the public domain and worthy of a wikipedia citation to allow interested parties to learn more about what the institute and its centres do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pstone101 (talk • contribs) 23:50, 12 December 2007 (UTC)