Brian Loader is a British

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 scholar, and Researcher

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. He is currently co-director of the Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU) with his colleague Roger Burrows in the Department of Sociology at the University of York

University of York

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 where he studies technology, communication, and politics. He is the founding Editor of the international journal of Information, Communication and Society. So far, he has published numerous books including Community Informatics: Shaping Computer-Mediated Social Networks, Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements.

His recent and current projects includes:

• 2001 – 03, ‘Challenging the Digital Divide?’, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
  Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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• 2003 – 05, Loader, B., ‘Community Technologies’, ERDF.
• 2003 - 06, Loader, B., Hardey, M. & Keeble, L., ‘Wired for the Third Age: Electronic Service Delivery for Older People’, Dept of Health Modernising Social Care Programme.