kling@ICS.UCI.EDU (Rob Kling) (04/09/91)
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Computerization and Controversy:
Value Conflicts and Social Choices
Charles Dunlop and Rob Kling (Editors)
Many students, professionals, managers, and laymen are hungry for
honest, probing discussions of the opportunities and problems of
computerization. This anthology introduces some of the major social
controversies about the computerization of society through a collection
of over 50 articles. It highlights some of the key value conflicts and
social choices about comput-erization. It helps readers recognize the
social processes that drive and shape computerization, and to
understand the paradoxes and ironies of computerization
Some of the controversies about computerization covered in this
collection include:
* the appropriateness of utopian and anti-utopian scenarios
for understanding the future
* whether computerization demonstrably improves the
productivity of organizations
* how computerization transforms work
* how computerized systems can be designed with social
principles in view
* whether electronic mail facilitates the formation of new
communities or undermines intimate interaction
* whether computerization is likely to reduce privacy and
personal freedom
* the risks raised by computerized systems in health care
* the ethical issues when computer science researchers accept
military funding
* the extent to which organizations, rather than "hackers,"
are significant perpetrators of computer abuse
The authors include Paul Attewell, Carl Barus, Wendell Berry,
James Beninger, John Bennett*, Alan Borning, Niels Bjorn-
Anderson*, Chris Bullen*, Roger Clarke, Peter Denning, Pelle Ehn,
Edward Feigenbaum, Linda Garcia, Suzanne Iacono, Jon Jacky*, Rob
Kling, Kenneth Kraemer*, John Ladd, Kenneth Laudon, Pamela
McCorduck, David Parnas, Judith Perrolle*, James Rule, John
Sculley, John Shattuck, Brian Smith, Clifford Stoll, Lindsy Van
Gelder, Fred Weingarten, Joseph Weizenbaum, and Terry Winograd.
(*'d authors have contributed new essays for the
book.)
Each of the seven sections opens with an essay which identifies
major controversies and places the articles in the context of key
questions and debates. These essays also point the reader to a
significant body of research and debate about the controversies.
Published by Academic Press (Boston). 758 pp.
Available now $34.95 pbk - USA//Canada ISBN: 0-12-224356-0 (pbk)
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Faculty who offer related courses (Values and Technology; Applied
Ethics; Computers & Society; Information Systems and Behavior, etc.) may order
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