Public vs. Private Interest on the Internet
Why network owners should not be the sole arbiters of access to networks, including the Internet.
Abbe Mowshowitz
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Who Should Govern the Internet?
Failing to share control, the U.S. risks driving disaffected countries to establish their own competing, independent root servers, thus creating parallel Internets.
This special section presents views of a society changing under the influence of advanced information technology. Computers have been around for about half a century and their social effects have been described under many headings. The title "Digital Society" chosen for this collection of articles is intended to call attention to fundamental IT-based transformations in social organization and structure.
Consumer Power in the Digital Society
A shift in the balance of power brings with it increased potential for influence.
When it comes to measuring bias on the Web, there is
clearly strength in numbers (of search engines, that
is).
On approaches to the study of social issues in computing
This paper identifies and analyzes technical and nontechnical biases in research on social issues in computing. Five positions—technicism, progressive individualism, elitism, pluralism, and radical criticism—which reflect major streams of contemporary social thought are examined. The analysis of positions documents the close relationship between research and policy formation and reveals the misleading and dangerous character of the presumption of scholarly objectivity in research on social issues.
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