Human choice and ICT policy: Introduction to the HCC8 Conference proceedings

Authors
Publication date 2008
Host editors
  • C. Avgerou
  • M.L. Smith
  • P. van den Besselaar
Book title Social dimensions of information and communication technology policy: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC8), IFIP TC 9, Pretoria, South Africa, September 25-26, 2008
ISBN
  • 9780387848211
Event Eighth International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC8), Pretoria, South Africa
Pages (from-to) 1-13
Publisher New York, NY: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
Abstract
Since its launching in 1974, the Human Choice and Computers (HCC) series of conferences of the IFIP Technical Committee 9 (TC9)1 has provided a forum for the study of the multiple facets of the dynamics of social change associated with information and communication technologies (ICTs). These conferences have captured the unfolding hopes and concerns about the interplay between the technologies we construct and our personal lives, organisations, and social institutions. Whether the message voiced by individual authors is optimistic and positive about the emerging socio-technical arrangements or worrying and critical, the "human choice" concept has always been pivotal in the discussions of the HCC conferences.
Document type Conference contribution
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84822-8_1
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