Social Issues of 
Computing

Keywords: mental models; technological utopianism; economic, cultural and organizational dimensions of computerization; worklife; electronic communities; computer-mediated communications (CMC); privacy; social control; risks of computing; system safety and vulnerability; ethics; professional responsibilities.

This page is designed to serve as a single entry point into a set of resources dealing with social issues of computing, connecting some of the work of Rob Kling, at Indiana University - Bloomington, Tom Jewett, at C.S.U. Long Beach, and many other sources listed below.


Key resources linked to this site:

Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices, 2nd Edition, written and edited by Rob Kling, published by Academic Press (due Jan 96).

Teaching Social Issues of Computing: Challenges, Ideas and Resources, by Tom Jewett and Rob Kling, published by Academic Press (due Jan 96).

Sources of Information about courses in social issues of computing, organizations and on-line information, and more.

The Information Society, an international quarterly journal, edited by Rob Kling

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Latest update: 28 Sep 96
For more information, email jewett@engr.csulb.edu and kling@ics.uci.edu