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Kingsley Dennis

Kingsley Dennis worked in Sociology until September 2008.
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Kingsley Dennis

Research Associate

Department: Sociology

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe)

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Research Interests

My research includes.....

My research interests include complexity theory, and modeling complexity theory for socio-technical environments. Specifically, this includes complex mobilities that incorporate mobility flows, dependencies, and informational networks. In particular I focus upon information communication technologies that facilitate social networks, such as the Internet, blogging, and mobile devices.

My research also involves examining physical-digital convergences and how these might impact upon social processes. In this context I focus on developments in pervasive, ubiquitous computing; sensor networks; socio-techno networks; and urban infrastructures.

I am also interested in the digital rendition of identity and the implications of surveillance technologies. In what I have termed 'dark mobilities' I examine how movement constructs and frames social forms and norms. Included here are spaces for civil society as well as social spaces as a controlled medium.

My research also takes into account how the body and mind is a site for physical-digital convergence and how it may act as both a site and facilitator for communication as well as becoming an embedded construct within communication networks.

Finally, I am involved in alternative futures, future scenario building, and forecasting; with particular attention on the convergence of nano-bio-info technologies amid environmental concerns.