Ebook: Social Informatics: An Information Society for all? In Remembrance of Rob Kling: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC7), IFIP TC 9, Maribor, Slovenia, September 21–23, 2006
- Tags: Computers and Society
- Series: IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 223
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Through the years, the principal message of the ‘Human Choice and Computers’ (HCC) tradition and its associated conferences has been: there are choices and alternatives. The special theme of HCC7 is Social Informatics, which includes in itself a promise of a less technically biased approach to informatics, whilst An Information Society for All adds the ethical aspects to it. When developing the infrastructure and applications in an information society, we should strive to afford people equal opportunities to information technologies.
Professor Rob Kling introduced the name Social informatics in its widely known Computers and Controversy. He was director of the Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2003 at age 58, leaving a rich heritage in the field. This HCC7 conference honours his work and memory, and it develops further the cultivation of Kling’s legacy.
In this volume, Social Informatics takes in two directions. The first part supports the readers in creating their interpretation of the meaning of Social Informatics. The second, more extensive, part develops an overview of various applications of Social Informatics. Researchers inspired by Social Informatics touch unbelievably many areas of human and social life.
Ethics, culture, politics, and law are a few areas within the realm of Social Informatics. The conceptualisations of information societies and ICT policies expand the domain towards economic, organizational, and technical issues. Additionally, this volume further develops the successful applications that require valid concepts and methods. These aspects demonstrate the power of Rob Kling’s legacy. Scientific knowledge is the most durable form of that heritage because it does not decrease when used; on the contrary, diligent applications bear multiple fruits to continue that legacy.
Thank you, Rob!
Jacques Berleur is at the University of Namur, Belgium.
Markku I. Nurminen is at the University of Turku, Finland.
John Impagliazzo is at Hofstra University, USA.
Through the years, the principal message of the ‘Human Choice and Computers’ (HCC) tradition and its associated conferences has been: there are choices and alternatives. The special theme of HCC7 is Social Informatics, which includes in itself a promise of a less technically biased approach to informatics, whilst An Information Society for All adds the ethical aspects to it. When developing the infrastructure and applications in an information society, we should strive to afford people equal opportunities to information technologies.
Professor Rob Kling introduced the name Social informatics in its widely known Computers and Controversy. He was director of the Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2003 at age 58, leaving a rich heritage in the field. This HCC7 conference honours his work and memory, and it develops further the cultivation of Kling’s legacy.
In this volume, Social Informatics takes in two directions. The first part supports the readers in creating their interpretation of the meaning of Social Informatics. The second, more extensive, part develops an overview of various applications of Social Informatics. Researchers inspired by Social Informatics touch unbelievably many areas of human and social life.
Ethics, culture, politics, and law are a few areas within the realm of Social Informatics. The conceptualisations of information societies and ICT policies expand the domain towards economic, organizational, and technical issues. Additionally, this volume further develops the successful applications that require valid concepts and methods. These aspects demonstrate the power of Rob Kling’s legacy. Scientific knowledge is the most durable form of that heritage because it does not decrease when used; on the contrary, diligent applications bear multiple fruits to continue that legacy.
Thank you, Rob!
Jacques Berleur is at the University of Namur, Belgium.
Markku I. Nurminen is at the University of Turku, Finland.
John Impagliazzo is at Hofstra University, USA.
Through the years, the principal message of the ‘Human Choice and Computers’ (HCC) tradition and its associated conferences has been: there are choices and alternatives. The special theme of HCC7 is Social Informatics, which includes in itself a promise of a less technically biased approach to informatics, whilst An Information Society for All adds the ethical aspects to it. When developing the infrastructure and applications in an information society, we should strive to afford people equal opportunities to information technologies.
Professor Rob Kling introduced the name Social informatics in its widely known Computers and Controversy. He was director of the Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2003 at age 58, leaving a rich heritage in the field. This HCC7 conference honours his work and memory, and it develops further the cultivation of Kling’s legacy.
In this volume, Social Informatics takes in two directions. The first part supports the readers in creating their interpretation of the meaning of Social Informatics. The second, more extensive, part develops an overview of various applications of Social Informatics. Researchers inspired by Social Informatics touch unbelievably many areas of human and social life.
Ethics, culture, politics, and law are a few areas within the realm of Social Informatics. The conceptualisations of information societies and ICT policies expand the domain towards economic, organizational, and technical issues. Additionally, this volume further develops the successful applications that require valid concepts and methods. These aspects demonstrate the power of Rob Kling’s legacy. Scientific knowledge is the most durable form of that heritage because it does not decrease when used; on the contrary, diligent applications bear multiple fruits to continue that legacy.
Thank you, Rob!
Jacques Berleur is at the University of Namur, Belgium.
Markku I. Nurminen is at the University of Turku, Finland.
John Impagliazzo is at Hofstra University, USA.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-16
As we may remember....Pages 17-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
On Rob Kling: The Theoretical, the Methodological,and the Critical....Pages 25-36
Socio-Technical Interaction Networks: A Discussion of the Strengths, Weaknesses and Future of Kling’s STIN Model....Pages 37-48
Social Informatics: Principles, Theory, and Practice....Pages 49-62
Teaching Social Informatics for Engineering Students....Pages 65-72
Social Informatics:An Emerging Discipline?....Pages 73-85
Social Informatics in the Future?....Pages 87-96
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
The Ethics of e-Medicine....Pages 101-109
Digital Child Pornography: Reflections on the Need for a Critical IS Research Agenda....Pages 111-121
An Empirical Study on Implementing Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) in Schools....Pages 123-132
Ubiquity and Pervasivity: On the Technological Mediation of (Mobile) Everyday Life....Pages 133-144
Firm Information Transparency: Ethical Questions in the Information Age....Pages 145-156
Databases, Biological Information and Collective Action....Pages 159-169
Internet-Based Commons of Intellectual Resources: An Exploration of their Variety....Pages 171-183
Virtual Censorship: Controlling the Public Sphere....Pages 185-194
Communicating Information Society Related RTD and Deployment Results in Support of EU Public Policies....Pages 195-207
Consumer Models in the Encounter between Supply and Demand of Electronic Administration....Pages 209-217
Sustainability and the Information Society....Pages 219-230
The Production of Service in the Digital City: A Social Informatics Inquiry....Pages 233-242
The Social Informatics of the Internet: An Ecology of Games....Pages 243-253
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Enhancing Human Choice by Information Technologies....Pages 255-264
User’s Knights in Shining Armour?....Pages 265-278
Models of Democracy and the Design of Slovenian Political Party Web Sites....Pages 279-295
ICT in Medicine and Health Care: Assessing Social, Ethical and Legal Issues....Pages 297-308
Internet in the Street Project: Helping the Extremely Poor to Enter the Information Society....Pages 309-318
ICT and Free Open Source Software in Developing Countries....Pages 319-330
Knowledge, Work and Subject in Informational Capitalism....Pages 333-354
Designing the Accountability of Enterprise Architectures....Pages 355-366
Creating a Framework to Recognize Context-Originated Factors in IS in Organizations....Pages 367-379
Social Informatics — From Theory to Actions for the Good ICT Society....Pages 383-394
On Similarities and Differences between Social Informatics and Information Systems....Pages 395-406
Work Informatics — An Operationalisation of Social Informatics....Pages 407-416
Philosophical Inquiry into Social Informatics — Methods and Uses of Language....Pages 417-430
Strategies for the Effective Integration of ICT into Social Organization — Organization of Information Processing and the Necessity of Social Informatics....Pages 431-444
A User Centred Access Model....Pages 445-455
Computers and Internet Related Beliefs among Estonian Computer Users and Non-Users....Pages 459-468
Understanding Socio-Technical Change: Towards a Multidisciplinary Approach....Pages 469-479
Front Matter....Pages 481-481
Priorities of Fair Globalization....Pages 483-486
Back Matter....Pages 487-490
Through the years, the principal message of the ‘Human Choice and Computers’ (HCC) tradition and its associated conferences has been: there are choices and alternatives. The special theme of HCC7 is Social Informatics, which includes in itself a promise of a less technically biased approach to informatics, whilst An Information Society for All adds the ethical aspects to it. When developing the infrastructure and applications in an information society, we should strive to afford people equal opportunities to information technologies.
Professor Rob Kling introduced the name Social informatics in its widely known Computers and Controversy. He was director of the Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2003 at age 58, leaving a rich heritage in the field. This HCC7 conference honours his work and memory, and it develops further the cultivation of Kling’s legacy.
In this volume, Social Informatics takes in two directions. The first part supports the readers in creating their interpretation of the meaning of Social Informatics. The second, more extensive, part develops an overview of various applications of Social Informatics. Researchers inspired by Social Informatics touch unbelievably many areas of human and social life.
Ethics, culture, politics, and law are a few areas within the realm of Social Informatics. The conceptualisations of information societies and ICT policies expand the domain towards economic, organizational, and technical issues. Additionally, this volume further develops the successful applications that require valid concepts and methods. These aspects demonstrate the power of Rob Kling’s legacy. Scientific knowledge is the most durable form of that heritage because it does not decrease when used; on the contrary, diligent applications bear multiple fruits to continue that legacy.
Thank you, Rob!
Jacques Berleur is at the University of Namur, Belgium.
Markku I. Nurminen is at the University of Turku, Finland.
John Impagliazzo is at Hofstra University, USA.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-16
As we may remember....Pages 17-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
On Rob Kling: The Theoretical, the Methodological,and the Critical....Pages 25-36
Socio-Technical Interaction Networks: A Discussion of the Strengths, Weaknesses and Future of Kling’s STIN Model....Pages 37-48
Social Informatics: Principles, Theory, and Practice....Pages 49-62
Teaching Social Informatics for Engineering Students....Pages 65-72
Social Informatics:An Emerging Discipline?....Pages 73-85
Social Informatics in the Future?....Pages 87-96
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
The Ethics of e-Medicine....Pages 101-109
Digital Child Pornography: Reflections on the Need for a Critical IS Research Agenda....Pages 111-121
An Empirical Study on Implementing Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) in Schools....Pages 123-132
Ubiquity and Pervasivity: On the Technological Mediation of (Mobile) Everyday Life....Pages 133-144
Firm Information Transparency: Ethical Questions in the Information Age....Pages 145-156
Databases, Biological Information and Collective Action....Pages 159-169
Internet-Based Commons of Intellectual Resources: An Exploration of their Variety....Pages 171-183
Virtual Censorship: Controlling the Public Sphere....Pages 185-194
Communicating Information Society Related RTD and Deployment Results in Support of EU Public Policies....Pages 195-207
Consumer Models in the Encounter between Supply and Demand of Electronic Administration....Pages 209-217
Sustainability and the Information Society....Pages 219-230
The Production of Service in the Digital City: A Social Informatics Inquiry....Pages 233-242
The Social Informatics of the Internet: An Ecology of Games....Pages 243-253
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Enhancing Human Choice by Information Technologies....Pages 255-264
User’s Knights in Shining Armour?....Pages 265-278
Models of Democracy and the Design of Slovenian Political Party Web Sites....Pages 279-295
ICT in Medicine and Health Care: Assessing Social, Ethical and Legal Issues....Pages 297-308
Internet in the Street Project: Helping the Extremely Poor to Enter the Information Society....Pages 309-318
ICT and Free Open Source Software in Developing Countries....Pages 319-330
Knowledge, Work and Subject in Informational Capitalism....Pages 333-354
Designing the Accountability of Enterprise Architectures....Pages 355-366
Creating a Framework to Recognize Context-Originated Factors in IS in Organizations....Pages 367-379
Social Informatics — From Theory to Actions for the Good ICT Society....Pages 383-394
On Similarities and Differences between Social Informatics and Information Systems....Pages 395-406
Work Informatics — An Operationalisation of Social Informatics....Pages 407-416
Philosophical Inquiry into Social Informatics — Methods and Uses of Language....Pages 417-430
Strategies for the Effective Integration of ICT into Social Organization — Organization of Information Processing and the Necessity of Social Informatics....Pages 431-444
A User Centred Access Model....Pages 445-455
Computers and Internet Related Beliefs among Estonian Computer Users and Non-Users....Pages 459-468
Understanding Socio-Technical Change: Towards a Multidisciplinary Approach....Pages 469-479
Front Matter....Pages 481-481
Priorities of Fair Globalization....Pages 483-486
Back Matter....Pages 487-490
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