Human Choice and Computers

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Quality of Life and Quality of Working Life #1

   1. Critical Professional Discourses About Information and Communications Technologies and Social Life in the U.S.

      • Rob Kling

      Pages 1-20

   2. Does the Internet Promote Democracy?

      • C. C. Gotlieb

      Pages 21-29

3. Quality of Life and Quality of Working Life #2

   1. Theoretical perspective on the interplay between ICT and quality of life

      • Gunilla Bradley

      Pages 31-41

   2. Using Technology to help the Citizen Enrollment

      • Marcos Clayton Pessoa, Joaquim Celestino Jr., Sandra Maciel Barreto, José Carvalho Filho Jr.

      Pages 43-53

   3. Information and communication technology and the home environment

      • Andy Sloane

      Pages 55-60

4. History of Computing

   1. Some Great Myths of the History of Computing

      • J. A. N. Lee

      Pages 61-75

   2. Roots of Computing in Austria

      • Kurt Walk

      Pages 77-87

5. Ethics and Social Accountability in the Information Society #1

   1. Self-regulation: Content, Legitimacy and Efficiency — Governance and Ethics

      • Jacques Berleur, Tanguy Ewbank de Wespin

      Pages 89-108

   2. Trust, corruption, and surveillance in the electronic workplace

      • John Weckert

      Pages 109-119

   3. Ethics and Learning

      • Tom Dedeurwaerdere

      Pages 121-130

6. Ethics and Social Accountability in the Information Society #2

   1. Computer Augmented Research and Scientific Misconduct

      • Wolfgang Coy

      Pages 131-146

   2. The Security Aspect of Information Society as a Global Biocultural System

      • Laszlo Z. Karvalics

      Pages 147-162

   3. Choice and responsibility: the delegation of decision making to intelligent software agents

      • Carolyn Dowling, Paul Nicholson

      Pages 163-170

7. Responsibility of IT Professionals

   1. Responsibility and the Work of IT-Professionals

      • Peter Bittner, Eva Hornecker

      Pages 171-181

8. Legitimacy, Legality and Power in the Information Society: September 11 Fallout: Social Implications of Terrorist Attacks

   1. Is The Enemy Us?

      • Richard S. Rosenberg

      Pages 183-194

   2. National Identification Schemes (NIDS)

      • Andrew Clement, Robert Guerra, Jeff Johnson, Felix Stalder

      Pages 195-205

   3. A Classification of Biometric Applications Wanted by Politics

      • Arslan Broemme

      Pages 207-219

9. Panel Discussion

   1. Preventing Privacy Attacks and Cybercrime in the Mobile Internet

      • Simone Fischer-Huebner, Alberto Escudero Pascual, Helena Lindskog

      Pages 221-223

10. Roles of Developing Countries in the Information Society

    1. Towards a Framework for Sustainable Knowledge Management in Organisations in Developing Countries

       • Adekunle Okunoye

       Pages 225-237

Human Choice and Computers: Issues of Choice and Quality of Life in the Information Society presents different views about how terrorist actions are influencing political and social discussions and decisions, and it covers questions related to legitimacy and power in the Information Society. Ethical principles are important guidelines for responsible behavior of IT professionals. But even under strong external pressure, long ranging aspects such as education and the roles of developing countries in the Information Society are important to discuss, especially to enable all to actively participate in information processes.

• Internet
• Nation
• environment
• ethics
• knowledge management
• organization
• security

• Faculty for Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  Klaus Brunnstein

• Institut d’Informatique, Facultes Universitaire Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium

  Jacques Berleur

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