The Information Society, Volume 12

Volume 12, Number 1, 1996

• Rob Kling:
  Letter from the Editor-in-Chief.
  
• Luciano Floridi:
  Internet: Which Future for Organized Knowledge, Frankenstein or Pygmalion?
  
• Roberta Lamb:
  Informational Imnperatives and Sociall Mediated Relationships.
  
• David J. Phillips:
  Defending the Boundaries: Identifying and Countering Threats in a Usenet Newsgroup.
  
• Langdon Winner:
  Who Will We Be in Cyberspace?
  

• Francis Harvey, Ben Gross, Philip E. Agre, Ben Shneiderman:
  The Durango Declarations Forum.
  
• Durango Declarations. (Discussed in Final Plenum Meeting).
• The Student Fellows' Durango Declarations.
• Philip E. Agre: The Durango Imperatives.
• Ben Shneiderman: Durango Declarations Forum Commentaries.
• Charles Bownstein: Durango Declarations Forum Commentaries.
• Langdon Winner: Durango Declarations Forum Commentaries.
• Marsha Woodbury: Durango Declarations Forum Commentaries.
• Patricia Radin:
  A Biotechnology Web Site: Toward 'Electronic Democracy'.
  
• Simon Davies:
  Dystopia on the Health Superhighway.
  

• Paul Attewell: The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity, by Landauer.
• John C. Cherniavsky: Fatal Defect: Chasing Killer Computer Bugs, by Peterson. Computer-Related Risks, by Neumann. Safeware: System Safety and Computers, by Leveson.
• William Sims Bainbridge: Computer Technology and Social Issues, by Garson.
• Rob Kling: Does Technology Drive History?: The Dilemma of Technological Determinism, by Smith and Marx.

Volume 12, Number 2, 1996

• Rob Kling:
  Letter from the Editor-in-Chief.
  

• Jim Thomas:
  Introduction: A Debate about the Ethics of Fair Practices for Collecting Social Science Data in Cyberspace.
  
• Storm A. King:
  Researching Internet Communities: Proposed Ethical Guidelines for the Reporting of Results.
  
• Dennis Waskul, Mark Douglass:
  Considering the Electronic Participant: Some Polemical Observations on the Ethics of On-Line Research.
  
• Sharon Polancic Boehlefeld:
  Doing the Right Thing: Ethical Cyberspace Research.
  
• Susan Herring:
  Linguistic and Critical Analysis of Computer-Mediated Communication: Some Ethical and Scholarly Considerations.
  
• Elizabeth Reid:
  Informed Consent in the Study of On-Line Communities: A Reflection on the Effects of Computer-Mediated Social Research.
  
• Christina Allen:
  What's Wrong with the `Golden Rule'? Conundrums of Conducting Ethical Research in Cyberspace.
  
• Jim Thomas:
  When Cyberresearch Goes Awry: The Ethics of the Rimm 'Cyberporn' Study.
  
• Storm A. King:
  Commentary on Responses to the Proposed Guidelines.
  

• Geoffrey C. Bowker: American Technological Sublime, by David Nye.
• Stuart Shapiro: Software by Design, by Harold Salzman and Stephen Rosenthal.
• Sheizaf Rafaeli: "Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access, by Ann Wells Branscomb.
• Rebecca Grant: The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work, by Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio.

Volume 12, Number 3, 1996

• Rob Kling:
  Letter from the Editor-in-Chief.
  
• Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason L. Dedrick, Chin-Yeong Hwang, Tze-Chen Tu, Chee-Sing Yap:
  Entrepreneurship, Flexibility, and Policy Coordination: Taiwan's Computer Industry.
  
• Joel West:
  Utopianism and National Competitiveness in Technology rhetoric: The Case of Japan's Information Infrastructure.
  
• Milton L. Mueller, Jörge Reina Schement:
  Universal Service from the Bottom Up: A Study of Telephone Penetration in Camden, New Jersey.
  

• Mark Poster: Introduction to the Forum on 'A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age': Cyberspace and the American Dream.
• Esther Dyson, George Gilder, George Keyworth, Alvin Toffler: Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age (Release 1.2, August 1994).
• John Carlos Rowe:
  Cybercowboys on the New Frontier: Freedom, Nationalism, and Imperialism in the Postmodern Era.
  
• Richard Moore:
  Cyberspace Inc. and the Robber Baron Age: An Analysis of PFF's 'Magna Carta'.
  

• Kevin Hunt: The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in our Midst, by Stephen L. Talbott.
• James Dalziel: The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in our Midst, by Stephen L. Talbott.
• William Bainbridge: The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in our Midst, by Stephen L. Talbott..
• Steven Wyman: Democracy and Technology, by Richard Sclove.
• Andrew Dillon: Information Superhighways: Multimedia Users and Futures, edited by S.J. Emmott.
• Karen Ruhleder: Resisting the Virtual Life, edited by James Brooks and Ian Boal.
• Linda Wall: Space Place and the Infobahn, by William Mitchell.

Volume 12, Number 4, 1996

• Rob Kling: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief.
• John P. Walsh, Todd Bayma:
  The Virtual College: Computer-Mediated Communication and Scientific Work.
  
• Bryan Pfaffenberger:
  If I Want it, It's OK: Usenet and the (Outer) Limits of Free Speech.
  
• Nancy Kurland, Terri Egan:
  Engendering Democratic Participation via the Net: Access, Voice and Dialogue.
  
• James Katz:
  Understanding Communication Privacy: Unlisted Telephone Subscribers in the United States.
  
• Jan L. Youtie, William Read:
  Regulatory Reform and the Promise of New Telecommunications Infrastructure in New Jersey.
  

• Van Korenegay:
  Short-term memories: A Death in the Information Age.
  
• Majid Tehranian: The End of University.
• Suzanne Iacono:
  The Demise of Meaning-Making and Social Agency as Critical Concepts in the Rhetoric of an Information Age.
  

• Deborah Sprague: In Search of the Virtual Class: Education in an Information Society, by J. Tiffin and L. Rajasingham.
• George Ritzer: The Dynamics of Service: Reflections on the Changing Nature of Customer/Provider Interactions, by Barbara Gutek.