Computers and Networks in the Age of Globalization
IFIP TC9 Fifth World Conference on Human Choice and Computers August 25-28, 1998, Geneva, Switzerland
Published on 9. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 400 pages
978-1-4757-4838-3 (ISBN)
Description
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:
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.
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Series
Edition
2001 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XII, 400 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
628 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4757-4838-3 (9781475748383)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-387-35400-2
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Leif Bloch Rasmussen | Colin Beardon | Silvio Munari
Computers and Networks in the Age of Globalization
IFIP TC9 Fifth World Conference on Human Choice and Computers August 25-28, 1998, Geneva, Switzerland
Book
11/2000
Kluwer Academic Publishers
€212.50
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Content
I People and Their Changing Values.- The exclusive society - elderly people and ICT.- An intervention programme for women in computing courses: Does it make a difference?.- Informatica feminale: A place for educational experiences.- The SUSEC school project: Introducing computer security to teachers and pupils.- A new model for integrated computing science undergraduate education.- Shifting values in information technologies.- II Citizenship in a Network Society.- Belgian 'digital cities': A sample of French-speaking websites.- Consumer related legal aspects of electronic commerce: The case of Denmark.- The global information society and electronic commerce: Privacy threats and privacy technologies.- The world wide web and the dilution of the Chinese language.- Ethics and the governance of the internet: Recommendations of IFIP - SIG 9.2.2.- Public interest issues in the global information society: Is there a role for public authorities?.- The valuation of the Polish information infrastructure development level in comparison with other selected countries.- III The Individual and the Knowledge Based Organisation.- The computing profession in the era of virtual organizing.- Standardisation, innovation and implementation of information technology.- IV Human Responsibility and Technology.- Infrastructure issues for internet broadcasting to home-based users.- Visualisation of communication in collaborative virtual environments.- Improving the quality of drawings.- Computer assisted neurophysiology by a distributed JAVA program.- XNBC: Simulating biological neural networks.- Telemedicine: The future of medicine - a case study of telemedicine applications within the United States.- V Exclusion and Regeneration.- Towards the virtual home: Construing the multimedia-hometo enhance cultural and biographic continuity.- New social actors in the context of a developing country: Computerisation in Brazil.- Concerning the virtual in the real.- Six works of art and their significance for the future of computing.- The process of ethics.- Signs of exformation systems.- Epilogue.- Index of Contributors.