School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

INLS 584, Information Ethics
Fall 2009

Access to Technology

Key Readings: General Discussions

Anderson, R. E., Lundmark, V., Harris, L., & Magnan, S. (1994). Equity in computing. In Huff, C., & Finholt, T. (1994). Social Issues in Computing: Putting Computing in its Place. New York: McGraw-Hill, 352-385. (Pages 352-356 only.) [Davis - QA76.9 .C66 S62 1994]

Graham, S. (2004). The software-sorted city: Rethinking the "digital divide." In Graham, S. (ed.), Cybercities Reader. London: Routledge, 324-332. [SILS - T14.5 .C93 2004]

Johnson, D. G. (1985). Equal access to computing, computing expertise, and decision making about computers. Business & Professional Ethics Journal, 4(3 & 4). [Davis - HF5387 .B8] Reprinted in Dejoie, R., Fowler, G., & Paradice, D. (Eds.). (1991). Ethical Issues in Information Systems. Boston: Boyd & Fraser, 210-218. [SILS - QA76.9 .M65 E83 1991]

Moss, J. (2002). Power and the digital divide. Ethics and Information Technology, 4(2), 159-165. [UNC libraries]

Payton, F. C. (2003). Rethinking the digital divide. Communications of the ACM, 46(6), 89-91. [ACM Digital Library]

Potter, A.B. (2006). Zones of silence: A framework beyond the digital divide. First Monday, 11(5). http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_5/potter/index.html.

Key Readings: Capability/Disability Factors

Comeaux, D., & Schmetzke, A. (2007). Web accessibility trends in university libraries and library schools. Library Hi Tech, 25(4), 457-477. [UNC libraries]

Cook, J. S., & Cook, L. (2004). The ethics of Web design: Ensuring access for everyone. In Quigley, M. (ed.), Information Security and Ethics: Social and Organizational Issues. Hershey, PA: IRM Press, 73-101. [SILS - T14.5 .I55 2005]

Dobransky, K., & Hargittai, E. (2006). The disability divide in internet access and use. Information, Communication, & Society, 9(3), 313-334. [UNC libraries]

Dudley-Sponaugle, A., & Lazar, J. (2004). Web accessibility for users with disabilities: a multi-faceted ethical analysis. In Quigley, M. (ed.), Information Security and Ethics: Social and Organizational Issues. Hershey, PA: IRM Press, 102-116. [SILS - T14.5 .I55 2005]

Loiacono, E. T. (2004). Cyberaccess: Web accessibility and corporate America. Communications of the ACM, 47(12), 82-87. [ACM Digital Library]

Shneiderman, B. (2000). Universal usability. Communications of the ACM, 43(5), 84-91. [ACM Digital Library]

Key Readings: Socioeconomic Factors

Barzilai-Nahon, K. (2006). Gaps and bits: Conceptualizing measurements for digital divide/s. The Information Society, 22(5), 269-278. [UNC libraries]

Civille, R. (1995). The Internet and the poor. In Kahin, B., & Keller, J. (Eds.), Public Access to the Internet. Cambridge: MIT Press, 175-207. [SILS, Davis - TK5105.875 .I57 P83 1995]

Couldry, N. (2003). Digital divide or discursive design? On the emerging ethics of information space. Ethics and Information Technology, 5(2), 89-97. [UNC libraries]

Hsieh, J.J.P.-A., Rai, A., & Keil, M. (2008). Understanding digital inequality: Comparing continued use behavioral models of the socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged. MIS Quarterly, 32(1), 97-126. [UNC libraries]

Hudson, H. E. (2004). Universal access: What have we learned from the e-rate? Telecommunications Policy, 28(3-4), 309-321. [UNC libraries]

Mitchell, W. J. (1999). Equitable access to the online world. In Schön, D. A., Sanyal, B., & Mitchell, W. J. (eds.), High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 151-163. [Davis - T58.5 .H55 1999]

Robinson, L. (2009). A taste for the necessary: A Bourdieuian approach to digital inequality. Information, Communcation & Society, 12(4), 488-507. [UNC libraries]

Key Readings: Race/Ethnicity Issues

Kretchmer, S. B., & Carveth, R. (2001). The color of the net: African Americans, race, and cyberspace. Computers and Society, 31(3), 9-14. [ACM Digital Library]

Kvasny, L., Trauth, E.M., & Morgan, A.J. (2009). Power relations in IT education and work: The intersectionality of gender, race and class. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, 7(2/3), 96-118. [Request via interlibrary loan, from instructor, or at http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/lkvasny/JICES-PowerRelations.pdf]

Key Readings: Gender Factors

Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. (2005). http://www.anitaborg.org/

Cooper, J., & Weaver, K. D. (2003). Gender and Computers: Understanding the Digital Divide. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Math/Physics - QA76.9.W65 C66 2003]

French, S. (2002). Gender equity and the use of information communication technologies in the knowledge economy: taking a feminist poststructuralist approach. Proceedings of the 2002 International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS '02): Social Implications of Information and Communication Technology (Raleigh, NC, June 6-8, 2002), 71-76. [Available from instructor]

Kvasny, L., Trauth, E.M., & Morgan, A.J. (2009). Power relations in IT education and work: The intersectionality of gender, race and class. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, 7(2/3), 96-118. [Request via interlibrary loan, from instructor, or at http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/lkvasny/JICES-PowerRelations.pdf]

Laurel, B. (1998). Brendal Laureal on games for girls. TED talks. http://www.ted.com/talks/brenda_laurel_on_making_games_for_girls.html.

Stepulevage, L. (2001). Becoming a technologist: Days in a girl's life. In Green, E., & Adam, A. (eds.), Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity. London: Routledge, 63-83. [SILS - HQ1233 .V57 2001]

Turkle, S., & Dennis, P. D. (2000). Tech Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age. Washington, DC: American Association of University Women Educational Foundation. Available at http://www.aauw.org/member_center/publications/TechSavvy/TechSavvy.pdf.

Key Readings: Global Issues

Buchanan, E. A. (1999). An overview of information ethics issues in a world-wide context. Ethics and Information Technology, 1(3), 193-201. [UNC libraries]

Capurro, R. (2007). African Information Ethics Conference: Proceedings. International Review of Information Ethics, 7. Available in three sections: African Information Ethics in the Context of the Global Information Society (Papers 1-15), http://www.i-r-i-e.net/1-15.htm; Information Ethics Issues in Africa (Papers 16-31), http://www.i-r-i-e.net/16-31.htm; and Action Items for the Road Ahead (Papers 32-40), http://www.i-r-i-e.net/32-40.htm.

Capurro, R. (2008). Information ethics for and from Africa. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 59(7), 1162-1170. [UNC libraries]

Çilan, C.A., Bolat, B.A., & Coskun, E. (2009). Analyzing digital divide within and between member and candidate countries of European Union. Government Information Quarterly, 26(1), 98-105. [UNC libraries]

Howard, P.N. (2007). Testing the leap-frog hypothesis: The impact of existing infrastructure and telecommunications policy on the global digital divide. Information, Communication & Society, 10(2), 133-157. [UNC libraries]

Parayil, G. (2005). The digital divide and increasing returns: Contradictions of informational capitalism. The Information Society, 21(1), 41-51. [UNC libraries]

Potter, A.B. (2006). Zones of silence: A framework beyond the digital divide. First Monday, 11(5). http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1327/1247.

Tambulasi, R.I.C. (2009). Pushed to the abyss of exclusion: ICT and social exclusion in developing countries. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, 7(2/3), 119-127. [Copy available from instructor]

Zheng, Y., & Walsham, G. (2008). Inequality of what? Social exclusion in the e-society as capability deprivation. IT and People, 21(3), 222-243. [UNC libraries]

Additional Readings

Bertot, J. C., & McClure, C. R. (1999). U.S. public library outlet internet connectivity: progress, issues and strategies. Library & Information Science Research, 21(3), 281-298. [UNC libraries]

Bodnar, C. (2004). Redlining and redefining high-speed Internet access: Policy, practice, and patchwork in urban development. In Consalvo, M., et al. (eds.), Internet Research Annual: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conferences, 2000-2002, Volume 1. New York: Peter Lang, 166-174. [SILS - ZA4228 .I58 v.1 2000/02]

Buré, C.E. (2006). Digital inclusion without social inclusion: The consumption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in homeless subculture in central Scotland. Journal of Community Informatics, 2(2). Available at http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=94&layout=html

Goss, E., & Gupta, U. (2003). Women and the Internet: is there an economic payoff? Communications of the ACM, 43(9 virtual extension). [ACM Digital Library]

Henderson, C. C., & King, F. D. (1995). The role of public libraries in providing public access to the Internet. In Kahin, B., & Keller, J. (Eds.), Public Access to the Internet. Cambridge: MIT Press, 154-171. [SILS, Davis - TK5105.875 .I57 P83 1995]

Hofmann, J. (1999). Writers, texts and writing acts: gendered user images in word processing software. In MacKenzie, D., & Wajcman, J. (eds.), The Social Shaping of Technology. Buckingham: Open University Press, 222-243. [SILS - T14.5 .S6383 1999]

Jue, D. K., Koontz, C. M., Magpantay, A., Lance, K. C., & Seidl, A. M. (1999). Using public libraries to provide technology access for individuals in poverty: a nationwide analysis of library market areas using a geographic information system. Library & Information Science Research, 21(3), 299-325. [UNC libraries]

Klecun, E. (2008). Bringing lost sheep into the fold: Questioning the discourse of the digital divide. IT and People, 21(3), 267-282. [UNC libraries]

Nardi, B. A., & O’Day, V. L. (1999). Digital photography at Lincoln High School. In Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 153-168. [Davis – T14.5 .N344 1999]

Press, L. (1997). Toward an access rights policy. Communications of the ACM, 40(7), 17-21. [ACM Digital Library]

Resnick, M., Rusk, N., & Cooke, S. (1999). The computer clubhouse: technological fluency in the inner city. In Schön, D. A., Sanyal, B., & Mitchell, W. J. (eds.), High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 263-286. [Davis - T58.5 .H55 1999]

Shaw, A., & Shaw, M. (1999). Social empowerment through community networks. In Schön, D. A., Sanyal, B., & Mitchell, W. J. (eds.), High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 315-336. [Davis - T58.5 .H55 1999]

Viseu, A., Clement, A., Aspinall, J., & Kennedy, T.L.M. (2006). The interplay of public and private spaces in internet access. Information, Communication & Society, 9(5), 633-656. [UNC libraries]

Wehn, U. (1998, March). Internet access for all: the obstacles and the signposts. id21 Insights, 25. http://www.id21.org/insights/insights25/insights-iss25-art04.html.

Wei, R., & Leung, L. (1999). Blurring public and private behaviors in public space: policy challenges in the use and improper use of the cell phone. Telematics and Informatics, 16(1-2), 11-26. [UNC libraries]

Scenarios of Ethical Decisions

Mason, R. O. (2001). Hal Richards: technological change and moral response. Communications of the AIS, 7(12). [Online journal]


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