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Computers and Networks in the Age of Globalization

IFIP TC9 Fifth World Conference on Human Choice and Computers August 25–28, 1998, Geneva, Switzerland

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Editors:
  1. Leif Bloch Rasmussen

    1. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

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  2. Colin Beardon

    1. University of Plymouth, UK

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  3. Silvio Munari

    1. University of Lausanne Business School, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT, volume 57)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. People and Their Changing Values

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Exclusive Society — Elderly People and ICT

      • Marc van Lieshout
      Pages 3-21

    3. An Intervention Programme for Women in Computing Courses: Does it Make a Difference?

      • Lorraine Staehr, Mary Martin, Graeme Byrne
      Pages 23-38

    4. Informatica Feminale: A Place for Educational Experiences

      • Veronika Oechtering, Karin Vosseberg
      Pages 39-53

    5. The Susec School Project: Introducing Computer Security to Teachers and Pupils

      • Gunnar Wenngren
      Pages 55-60

    6. A New Model for Integrated Computing Science Undergraduate Education

      • Richard F. Paweska
      Pages 61-69

    7. Shifting Values in Information Technologies

      • Phillip L. Davidson
      Pages 71-81

  3. Citizenship in a Network Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Belgian ‘Digital Cities’: A Sample of French-Speaking Websites

      • Marie d’Udekem-Gevers
      Pages 85-101

    3. Consumer Related Legal Aspects of Electronic Commerce: The Case of Denmark

      • Morten Falch, Anders Henten, Knud Erik Skouby
      Pages 103-114

    4. The Global Information Society and Electronic Commerce: Privacy Threats and Privacy Technologies

      • Kathrin Schier, Simone Fischer-Hübner
      Pages 115-134

    5. The World Wide Web and the Dilution of the Chinese Language

      • Weiping Zheng
      Pages 135-139

    6. Ethics and the Governance of the Internet: Recommendations of IFIP — SIG9.2.2

      • Jacques Berleur
      Pages 141-154

    7. Public Interest Issues in the Global Information Society: Is There a Role for Public Authorities?

      • Vassilios Laopodis
      Pages 155-168

    8. The Valuation of the Polish Information Infrastructure Development Level in Comparison with Other Selected Countries

      • Michal Golinski
      Pages 169-183

  4. The Individual and the Knowledge Based Organisation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. The Computing Profession in the Era of Virtual Organising

      • Ruud van Dael, Carolien Metselaar
      Pages 187-199

    3. Standardisation, Innovation and Implementation of Information Technology

      • Kai Jakobs, Rob Procter, Robin Williams
      Pages 201-217

  5. Human Responsibility and Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
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About this book

In modernity, an individual identity was constituted from civil society, while in a globalized network society, human identity, if it develops at all, must grow from communal resistance. A communal resistance to an abstract conceptualised world, where there is no possibility for perception and experience of power and therefore no possibility for human choice and action, is of utmost importance for the constituting of human choosers and actors.
This book therefore sets focus on those human choosers and actors wishing to read and enjoy the papers as they are actually perceiving and experiencing their lives in a diversity of social and cultural contexts. In so doing, the book tries to imagine in what kind of networks humans may choose and act based on the knowledge and empirical evidence presented in the papers.
The topics covered in the book include:
  • People and Their Changing Values.
  • Citizens in a Network Society.
  • The Individual and Knowledge Based Organisations.
  • Human Responsibility and Technology.
  • Exclusion and Regeneration.
This valuable new book contains the edited proceedings of the Fifth World Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC-5), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Geneva, Switzerland in August 1998. Since the first HCC conference in 1974, IFIP's Technical Committee 9 has endeavoured to set the agenda for human choices and human actions vis-à-vis computers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

    Leif Bloch Rasmussen

  • University of Plymouth, UK

    Colin Beardon

  • University of Lausanne Business School, Switzerland

    Silvio Munari

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