Computers and Networks in the Age of Globalization

by IFIP TC9 World Conference on Human Choice and Computers (5th : 1998 : Geneva, Switzerland); Munari, Silvio

• ISBN13: 9780792372530
• ISBN10: 0792372530
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Prologue	ix
Colin Beardon
Silvio Munari
Leif Bloch Rasmussen
Part I People and Their Changing Values
The exclusive society - elderly people and ICT	3	(20)
Marc van Lieshout
An intervention programme for women in computing courses: Does it make a difference?	23	(16)
Lorraine Staehr
Mary Martin
Graeme Byrne
Informatica feminale: A place for educational experiences	39	(16)
Veronika Oechtering
Karin Vosseberg
The SUSEC school project: Introducing computer security to teachers and pupils	55	(6)
Gunnar Wenngren
A new model for integrated computing science undergraduate education	61	(10)
Richard F. Paweska
Shifting values in information technologies	71	(14)
Phillip L. Davidson
Part II Citizenship in a Network Society
Belgian `digital cities': A sample of French-speaking websites	85	(18)
Marie d'Udekem-Gevers
Consumer related legal aspects of electronic commerce: The case of Denmark	103	(12)
Morten Falch
Anders Henten
Knud Erik Skouby
The global information society and electronic commerce: Privacy threats and privacy technologies	115	(20)
Kathrin Schier
Simone Fischer-Hubner
The world wide web and the dilution of the Chinese language	135	(6)
Weiping Zheng
Ethics and the governance of the internet: Recommendations of IFIP - SIG 9.2.2	141	(14)
Jacques Berleur
Public interest issues in the global information society: Is there a role for public authorities?	155	(14)
Vassilios Laopodis
The valuation of the Polish information infrastructure development level in comparison with other selected countries	169	(18)
Michal Golinski
Part III The Individual and the Knowledge Based Organisation
The computing profession in the era of virtual organising	187	(14)
Ruud van Dael
Carolien Metselaar
Standardisation, innovation and implementation of information technology	201	(20)
Kai Jakobs
Rob Procter
Robin Williams
Part IV Human Responsibility and Technology
Infrastructure issues for internet broadcasting to home-based users	221	(10)
Andy Sloane
Visualisation of communication in collaborative virtual environments	231	(14)
Kirsi Heiskanen
Mikko Jakala
Samuli Pekkola
Improving the quality of drawings	245	(16)
Pertti Jarvinen
Computer assisted neurophysiology by a distributed JAVA program	261	(12)
Luc Jeandenans
Michel Gautero
Francois Grize
Igor V. Tetko
Alessandro E.P. Villa
XNBC: Simulating biological neural networks	273	(18)
Jean-Francois Vibert
Telemedicine: The future of medicine - a case study of telemedicine applications within the United States	291	(16)
Suzanne Spradley
Part V Exclusion and Regeneration
Towards the virtual home: Construing the multimedia-home to enhance cultural and biographic continuity	307	(12)
Kresten Bjerg
New social actors in the context of a developing country: Computerisation in Brazil	319	(16)
Tom Dwyer
Concerning the virtual in the real	335	(10)
Niklas Damiris
Helga Wild
Six works of art and their significance for the future of computing	345	(16)
Colin Beardon
The process of ethics	361	(20)
Penny Duquenoy
Diane Whitehouse
Signs of exformation systems	381	(16)
Jane Retvig
Henrik Herlau
Leif Bloch Rasmussen
Epilogue	397	(2)
Colin Beardon
Silvio Munari
Leif Bloch Rasmussen
Index of Contributors	399