You have reached the Official Website of Jonathan Bishop. To all intents and purposes, I am an information technology polymath, which I enact through professional activities as a researcher, social entrepreneur, and jurist. I make it my purpose to seek out new ways to make society fairer through application of knowledge in the fields of information technology, the arts, law and sciences.
My website serves first and foremost to help people form an accurate ‘truth’ about me, through providing access to nearly everything I have written or communicated in durable form since gaining my first degree in 2002. The different sections serve the following purposes in order to show how my different beliefs have changed over time:
- My weblog and blog aim to reconcile my personal beliefs with all the others.
- My letters and op-eds aim to create debate in the public sphere around these discussions
- My notice board and policies aim to present my best reconciliation that supports my values and beliefs while recognising and allowing others as well.
- My publications aim to present a theoretical grounding of my understanding of the world, and evidence to inform the development of my ever changing and developing set of beliefs.
Some things that are worth knowing about me are:
- My seminal research paper, ‘Increasing participation in online communities‘ has been rank in the Top 25 of Science Direct papers in computer science in 2007, one of the Top 8 Brilliant Posts about Online Communities by FeverBee, and one of the Top 20 most cited papers of all time in the Computers in Human Behaviour journal.
- My seminal piece of e-learning technology for people with autism, PARLE, reached national finals, including the New Statesman New Media Awards 2004 and the Bright Sparks E-Learning Awards of the same year. My LLM degree, on which I specialised in e-learning law in the EU put me in the Top 5% of law graduates in 2007.
- My seminal social change project, The Emotivate Project, led to Fellowship of the Royal Society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures and commerce.
Some things that may or may not be worth noting about me:
- I am an amateur mathematician.
- I am an amateur technology historian.
- I am an amateur photographer. I have had photographs in History Channel Exhibitions.
- I am an amateur chess player.
- I am an amateur Robin Hood scholar. I presented a paper at the Robin Hood conference on the outlaw’s autistic traits.
