Human Choice and Computers

- Acknowledgements. Preface.

1. Quality of Life and Quality of Working Life No. 1. Critical Professional Discourses About Information and Communications Technologies and Social Life in the U.S.; R. Kling.

- Does the Internet Promote Democracy? C.C. Gotlieb.

2. Quality of Life and Quality of Working Life No. 2. Theoretical Perspective on the Interplay Between ICT and Quality of Life; G. Bradley.

- Using Technology to Help the Citizen Enrollment; M.C. Pessoa, et al.

- Information and Communication Technology and the Home Environment; A. Sloane.

3. History of Computing. Some Great Myths of the History of Computing; J.A.N Lee.

- Roots of Computing in Austria - Contributions of the IBM Vienna Laboratory and Changes of Paradigms and Priorities in Information Technology; K. Walk.

4. Ethics and Social Accountability in the Information Society No. 1. Self-regulation: Content, Legitimacy and Efficiency - Governance and Ethics; J. Berleur, et al.

- Trust, Corruption, and Surveillance in the Electronic Workplace; J. Wecker.

- Ethics and Learning - From State Regulation towards Reflexive Self-Regulation of the Information Society; T. Dedeurwaerdere.

5. Ethics and Social Accountability in the Information Society No. 2. Computer Augmented Research and Scientific Misconduct; W. Coy.

- The Security Aspect of Information Society as a Global Biocultural System; L.Z. Karvalics.

- Choice and Responsibility: The Delegation of Decision Making to Intelligent Software Agents; C. Dowling, P. Nicholson.

6. Responsibility of IT Professionals. Responsibility and the Work of IT-Professionals: From Academia to Practice; P. Bittner, E. Hornecker.

7. Legitimacy, Legality and Power in the Information Society: September 11 Fallout: Social Implications of Terrorist Attacks. Is the Enemy Us? &endash; New Threats to Privacy, Freedom of Information and Civil Liberties in the Age of Terrorism; R.S. Rosenberg.

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