Jonathan Bishop

Many people ask why I call myself a polymath, some even saying because I do that must mean I can’t be. Dictionary.com provides definitions of polymath, including ‘a person of great learning in several fields of study‘, ‘learned, having learned much‘. I will provide you will a list of my academic and professional qualifications as well as my books and peer-reviewed publications, and you can then make your own mind up as to whether I’m a polymath.

Multimedia Studies

E-Learning and Classroom 2.0

• Academic Qualifications include:
  • Master of Science in E-Learning.
• Books include:
  • Didactic Strategies and Technologies for Education: Incorporating Advancements.
• Other Publications include:
  • The Role of Augmented E-Learning Systems for Enhancing Pro-Social Behaviour in Socially Impaired Individuals.
  • Taming the Chatroom Bob: The role of brain-computer interfaces that manipulate prefrontal cortex optimization for increasing participation of victims of traumatic sex and other abuse online.
  • The Internet for educating individuals with social impairments.
  • The role of mediating artifacts in the design of persuasive e-learning systems.
  • The Role of Multi-Agent Social Networking Systems in Ubiquitous Education: Enhancing Peer-Supported Reflective Learning.
  • Increasing Participation in Community Activism through Co-operative Advantage: Lessons from The Emotivate Project for Big Society and Responsible Capitalism Initiatives.
  • Co-operative e-learning in the multilingual and multicultural school: The role of ‘Classroom 2.0’ for increasing participation in education.
  • The Persuasive and Assistive Interaction Extension (PAIX): A position paper on using gamified behavior management systems for reducing flame trolling in schools based on Classroom 2.0.

Information Systems

• Academic Qualifications include:
  • Master of Economic and Social Science in Information Systems.
  • Doctor of Information Systems (In Progress).
• Professional Qualifications include:
  • Chartered IT Professional.
  • Fellow of BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT.
  • Member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers.
• Publications include:
  • Transforming Lurkers into Posters: The Role of The Participation Continuum
  • Understanding and Facilitating the Development of Social Networks in Online Dating Communities: A Case Study and Model.
  • Evaluation-centred Design of E-Learning Communities: A Case Study and Review.
  • Ecological Cognition: A new dynamic for human-computer interaction.
  • Increasing participation in online communities: A framework for human-computer interaction.
  • Increasing The Economic Sustainability Of Online Communities: An Empirical Investigation.
  • Increasing membership in online communities: The five principles of managing virtual club economies.

Law and Legal Science

• Academic Qualifications include:
  • Master of Laws in European Union Law.
• Publications include:
  • All’s WELL that Ends WELL: A Comparative Analysis of the Constitutional and Administrative Frameworks of Cyberspace and the United Kingdom.
  • Tough on data misuse, tough on the causes of data misuse: A review of New Labour’s approach to information security and regulating the misuse of digital information (1997–2010).
  • The Art of Trolling Law Enforcement: A Review and Model for implementing ‘flame trolling’ legislation enacted in Great Britain (1981-2012).
  • Scope and Limitations in the Government of Wales Act 2006 for Tackling Internet Abuses in the Form of ‘Flame Trolling’.
  • Tackling Internet abuse in Great Britain:  Towards a framework for classifying severities of ‘flame trolling’.