From: kling@ics.uci.edu (Rob Kling)
Subject: Re: University policies on usenet
In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 27 Jan 93 04:40:39 +0000.
             <bula.728109639@sfu.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:03:49 GMT

Hi ...

You can find extensive discussions of bbs csnsorship in the
acad-freedom newsgroup ....(and its archives)..... you can aslo find
a discussion of the case at Stanford where  administrators cutoff the
feed to rec.humor.funny because of an athnic joke about Jews & Scots
in Computerization & Controversy. The Stanford CS department passed a
resolution to treat net boards like books in the library ... and
protected by norms of academic freedom.

/Rob Kling
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                    Computerization and Controversy:
                   Value Conflicts and Social Choices

         Charles Dunlop         and    Rob Kling (Editors)
     Univ. of Michigan - Flint        Univ. of California - Irvine

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. It
highlights some of the key value conflicts and social choices
about computerization. It helps readers recognize the social pro-
cesses 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, Jan Mouritsen, 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 a 20 page analytical essay
which identifies major controversies and places the articles in
the context of key questions and debates. These essays also point
the reader to recent additional research and debate about the
controversies.

Published by Academic Press (Boston). 758 pp.    1991.   $39.95
(North America)

ISBN: 0-12-224356-0    Phone: 1-800-321-5068  Fax: 1-800-235-0256

            See Below for Ordering Information


8/18/91

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                    Computerization and Controversy:
                   Value Conflicts and Social Choices
               by Charles Dunlop and Rob Kling (Editors)

                            In North America

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information about your course: class name and number, department,
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