Social Informatics

An Information Society for All? In Remembrance of Rob Kling : Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference 'Human Choice and Computers' (HCC7), IFIP TC 9, Maribor, Slovenia, September 21-23, 2006

500 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Markku I. Nurminen, Jacques Berleur, and John Impagliazzo University of Turku (Finland), [e-mail] University of Namur (Belgium), [e-mail] Hofstra University (USA), [e-mail] Human Choice and Computers (HCC) is the flagship conference of IFIP-Technical Committee 9 (TC9), dedicated to the study of the relationships between 'Computers and Society'. These proceedings cover the seventh of such conferences. We give as an annex to this Preface the sequence of the six first conferences as well as the references of their proceedings. * * * On 15 May 2003, Rob Kling, Professor of Information Systems and Information Science and Director of the Center for Social Informatics (CSI) at Indiana University, Bloomington, passed away. He was 58 years old. The day of his death, Indiana University's Dean Blaise Cronin at the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) said, "Rob Kling's accomplishments are legion, and well documented. He was quite simply the brightest bloke with whom I have had the pleasure of working. Infectiously curious, playfully serious, razor sharp, generous of spirit, and wonderfully open-minded." We share that appreciation, as so many of his friends. Rob was a founding father of IFIP-TC9. For several years since the inception, he was also chair of the so-called 'American core' of IFIP-Working Group 9.2 on Social Accountability.