ISBN:
9780387378763
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Computer Science Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 223
DDC:
303.48/33
Keywords:
Computer Science
;
Konferenzschrift 2006
;
Informationstechnik
;
Technikbewertung
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface / Markku I. Nurminen, Jacques Berleur and John ImpagliazzoAs we may remember / Alice Robbin ... [et al.] -- On Rob Kling: the theoretical, the methodological, and the critical / Alice Robbin and Ron Day -- Socio-technical interaction networks: a discussion of the strengths, weaknesses and future of Kling's STIN model / Eric T. Meyer -- Social informatics: principles, theory, and practice / Steve Sawyer and Michael Tyworth -- Teaching social informatics for engineering students / László Z. Karvalics and Lilla Juhász -- Social informatics: an emerging discipline? / Vasja Vehovar -- Social informatics in the future / Per Flensburg and Arianit Kurti -- The ethics of e-medicine / Göran Collste -- Digital child pornography: reflections on the need for a critical IS research agenda / Marie Eneman -- An empirical study on implementing free/libre open source software (FLOSS) in schools / Yuwei Lin and Enrico Zini -- Ubiquity and pervasivity: on the technological mediation of (mobile) everyday life / Giuseppina Pellegrino -- Firm information transparency: ethical questions in the information age / Antonino Vaccaro and Peter Madsen -- Databases, biological information and collective action / Tom Dedeurwaerdere -- Internet-based commons of intellectual resources: an exploration of their variety / Paul De Laat -- Virtual censorship: controlling the public sphere / Mathias Klang -- Communicating information society related RTD and deployment results in support of EU public policies / Vasileios Laopodis -- Consumer models in the encounter between supply and demand of electronic administration -- Françoise Massit-Folléa and Cécile Méadel -- Sustainability and the information society / Christian Fuchs -- The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry / Elisabeth Davenport and Keith Horton -- The social informatics of the Internet: an ecology of games / William H. Dutton -- Enhancing human choice by information technologies / Tanja Urbancic, Olga Stepankova and Nada Lavrac -- User's knights in shining armour? / Katarina Lindblad-Gidlund -- Models of democracy and the design of Slovenian political party Web sites / Simon Delakorda -- ICT in medicine and health care: assessing social, ethical, and legal issues / Goran Collste ... [et al.] -- Internet in the street project: helping the extremely poor to enter the information society / Corinne Chevrot ... [et al.] -- ICT and free open source software (FOSS) in developing countries / Pia Krakowski -- Knowledge, work and subject in informational capitalism / Rudi Schmiede -- Designing the accountability of enterprise architectures / Gian Marco Campagnolo and Gianni Jacucci -- Creating a framework to recognize context-originated factors in IS in organizations / Tuija Tiihonen, Mikko Korpela and Anja Mursu -- Social informatics -- from theory to actions for the good ICT society / Gunilla Bradley -- On similarities and differences between social informatics and information systems / Pertti Järvinen -- Work informatics-an operationalisation of social informatics / Marku I. Nurminen -- Philosophical inquiry into social informatics-methods and uses of language / Rocío Riueda Ortiz, Henrik Herlau and Leif Bloch Rasmussen -- Strategies for the effective integration of ICT into social organization-organization of information processing and the necessity of social informatics / Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski -- A user centred access model / Olof Nilsson -- Computers and Internet related beliefs among Estonian computer users and non-users / Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt -- Understanding socio-technical change: towards a multidisciplinary approach / Edouard J. Simon, Monique Janneck and Dorina Gumm -- Priorities of fair globalization / Leif Bloch Rasmussen and Viktoria Skarler.
Note:
Includes index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/978-0-387-37876-3
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