Professor Rick Duque's research focuses on the global diffusion of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) within developing nations (with an specific emphasis on scientific communities), and the re-organization of society along more environmentally sustainable lines.
Dr. Duque's CV
Selected Publications
Duque, R. B. (2011-2012) "Global Economic Crisis, Natural Disaster and the Chilean Scientific Sector." Sociedad Hoy. Forthcoming.
Duque, R. B., P. Miller, O. Barriga, W. Shrum, and G. Henriquez (2011-2012) "Is Internet Use Associated with Reporting Fewer Problems in Collaboration? Evidence from the scientific community in Chile." Science Communication. Forthcoming.
Palackal, A., P. Mbatia, , D. Dzorgbo, R. B. Duque, M. Ynalvez, and W. Shrum (2011) "Are Mobile Phones Changing Social Networks: A Longitudinal Study of Core Networks In Kerala." New Media & Society - Special Issue, 13 (3): 391–410.
Shrum, W., Mbatia, P., A. Palackal, D. Dzorgbo, R. B. Duque, and M. Ynalvez. (2011) "Mobile Phones and Network Change in Kenya." Social Science Research, 40(2): 614-625.
Miller, B. P., R. B. Duque, and W. Shrum (2010) " Gender, ICTs, and Productivity in Low Income Countries: A Panel Study." Science, Technology, and Human Values. (Published Online first: http://sth.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/12/15/0162243910392800.abstract?rss=1)
Ynalvez, M., R. B. Duque, and W. Shrum (2010) Productivity, collaboration, and reagency in distant lands: an essay on the Internet, in W. H. Dutton and P. W. Jeffreys (eds), World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (Pp. 325-342).
Duque, R. B, W. Shrum, O. Barriga, and G. Henriquez (2009) "Internet practice and professional networks in Chilean science: dependency or progress." Scientometrics, 81 (1): 239-263.
Duque, R. B. and M. Ynalvez (2009) "Internet Practice and Sociability in South Louisiana." New Media & Society, 11(4): 487-507.
Shrum, W., R. B. Duque, and M. Ynalvez (2007) "Lessons of the Lower Ninth: the methodology and epistemology of video ethnography." Technology In Society, 29: 215-225.
Sooryamorthy, R., R. B. Duque, M. Ynalvez, and W. Shrum (2007). "Scientific collaboration and the Kerala model: does the Internet make a difference." Journal of International Development, 19: 1-15.
Duque, R. B. (2007) "Global Internet Research: Internet Golpe in Chile," in W. Shrum, K. Benson, W. Bijker & K. Brunnstein (eds), Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information Society. New York: Springer Publishing (Pp. 198 – 206).
Duque, R. B., M. Ynalvez, R. Sooryamoorthy, P. Mbatia, D. Dzorgbo, and W. Shrum (2005) "Collaboration paradox: scientific productivity, the Internet, and problems of research in developing areas." Social Studies of Science, 35 (5): 755-785.
Shrum, W., R. B. Duque, and T. Brown (2005) "Digital video as research practice: methodology for the millennium." Journal of Research Practice, 1 (1), Article M4.
