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Profile

Qualifications

Stan Karanasios is a Research Fellow at the AIMTech Research Group in the Business School. His research interests concentrate on emergent information communication technologies and the emergency services and their use in disaster situations; the use of information communication technologies for development in developing countries, and; the use of Activity Theory as a methodology for understanding disruptive technology. Currently, Stan is working on two European Commission Framework 7 projects on researching the potential and impact of Cognitive Radio technology (ACROPOLIS project) and activity modelling for and novel Immersive Reflective Experience-based Adaptive Learning simulators (ImREAL project).

PhD, BA Victoria University, Australia

Publications

Journal articles
•    Allen, D.K., S. Karanasios, and M. Slavova, Working with Activity Theory: Context, Technology and Information Behaviour. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2011. 62(4): p. 776-788.
•    Allen, D. and S. Karanasios, Critical factors and patterns in the innovation process. Policing (Oxford): a journal of policy and practice, 2011. 5(1): p. 87-97
•    Karanasios, S. and D.K. Allen, WiMAX for Development. Information Technology for Development, 2010. 6(4): p. 320-328.
•    Burgess, S., & Karanasios, S. (2008). Electronic Commerce and Business-to-Consumer (B2C). Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, 6(4), 1-7.
•    Karanasios, S., & Burgess, S. (2008). Tourism and Internet adoption: a developing world perspective. International Journal of Tourism Research, 10(2), 169-182.
•    Karanasios, S., & Burgess, S. (2006). Exploring the Internet use of small tourism enterprises: evidence from a developing country. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 27(3), 1-21.

Books and book chapters
•    Karanasios, S., (2011) New and Emergent ICTs and Climate Change in Developing Countries R. Heeks and A. Ospina, Centre for Development Informatics, Institute for Development Policy and Management, SED; International Development Research Centre: Manchester.
•    Burgess, S., Sellitto, C., & Karanasios, S. (2009). Effective Web Presence Solutions for Small Businesses: Strategies and Successful Implementation: IGI Global.

Conference papers
•    Karanasios, S., Mishra, J., Allen, D., Norman, A., Thakker, D., & Lau, L. (2011). Capturing Real World Activity: A Socio-Technical Approach. E-Challenges 2011, Florence, Italy, 26-28 October.
•    Karanasios, S., Cooper, V., Deng, H., Alemayehu, M., & Pittayachawan, S. (2010 ). Antecedents to Greening Data Centres: A conceptual framework and exploratory case study. Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Brisbane, 1-3 December.
•    Breen, J., King, B., & Karanasios, S. (2010). Information Behaviour and Knowledge Acquisition amongst Small & Medium-Sized Tourism Operators. 33rd Annual ISBE Conference, London, 3-4 November.
•    Karanasios, S., Allen, D., & Vardaxoglou, G. (2009,). Innovation in UK Law Enforcement: The Emergence of Mobile Data. Americas Conference on Information Systems San Francisco, USA, 6-9 August.