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

INLS 584, Information Ethics
Fall 2009

Effects of Computerization on
Democracy and Government

Readings on E-Government

Letch, N., & Carroll, J. (2008). Excluded again: Implications of integrated e-government systems for those at the margins. IT and People, 21(3), 283-299. [UNC libraries]

Reddick, C.G., & Frank, H.A. (2007). The perceived impacts of e-government on U.S. cities: A survey of Florida and Texas City managers. Government Information Quarterly, 24(3), 576-594. [UNC libraries]

Quinn, A.C., & Ramasubramanian, L. (2007). Information technologies and civic engagement: Perspectives from librarianship and planning. Government Information Quarterly, 24(3), 595-610. [UNC libraries]

Readings on Society/Democracy

Anttiroiko, A.-V. (2003). Building strong e-democracy: the role of technology in developing democracy for the information age. Communications of the ACM, 43(9 virtual extension). [ACM Digital Library]

Bohman, J. (2008). The transformation of the public sphere: Political authority, communicative freedom, and internet publics. In van den Hoven, J., & Weckert, J. (eds.), Information Technology and Moral Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 66-92. [Davis Library - T58.5 .I53745 2008]

Elovaara, P., & Mörtberg, C. (2007). Design of digital democracies: Performances of citizenship, gender, and IT. Information, Communication, & Society, 10(3), 404-423. [UNC libraries]

Goldman, A.I. (2008). The social epistemology of blogging. In van den Hoven, J., & Weckert, J. (eds.), Information Technology and Moral Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 111-122. [Davis Library - T58.5 .I53745 2008]

Jensen, M.J. (2007). Civil society and cyber society: The role of the internet in community associations and democratic politics. The Information Society, 23(1), 39-50. [UNC libraries]

Johnson, D.G. (2000). Democrative values and the Internet. In Langford, D. (ed.), Internet Ethics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 181-199. [SILS - TK5105.875 .I57 I547 2000]

Johnson, D. G. (1997). Is the global information infrastructure a democratic technology? Computers & Society, 27(3), 20-26. [ACM Digital Library]

Kellner, D. (1999). New technologies, the welfare state, and the prospects for democratization. In Calabrese, A., & Burgelman, J.-C. (eds.), Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy: Rethinking the Limits of the Welfare State. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 239-256. [Davis - JC479 .C67 1999]

Kobayashi, T., Ikeda, K., & Miyata, K. (2006). Social capital online: Collective use of the internet and reciprocity as lubricants of democracy. Information, Communication & Society, 9(5), 582-611. [UNC libraries]

Miller, S. E. (1996). Democracy and free speech: online organizing for participation and power. In Civilizing Cyberspace: Policy, Power, and the Information Superhighway. New York: ACM Press; Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 211-259. [SILS, UL - HE7572 .U6 M55 1996]

Noam, E. M. (2005). Why the internet is bad for democracy. Communications of the ACM, 48(10), 57-58. [ACM Digital Library]

Oravec, J. A. (2005). Preventing e-voting hazards: The role of information professionals in securing the promise of electronic democracy. Information Management, 18(3/4), 3-4, 30. [forthcoming]

Schuler, D. (2001). Computer professionals and the next culture of democracy. Communications of the ACM, 44(1), 52-57. [ACM Digital Library]

Still, B. (2005). Hacking for a cause. First Monday, 10(9). http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_9/still/.

Sunstein, C.R. (2004). Democracy and filtering. Communications of the ACM, 47(12), 57-59. [ACM Digital Library]

Watson, R. T., & Mundy, B. (2001). A strategic perspective of electronic democracy. Communications of the ACM, 44(1), 27-30. [ACM Digital Library]

Readings on the USA PATRIOT Act and Homeland Security

Foerstel, H. N. (2004). Refuge of a Scoundrel: The PATRIOT Act in Libraries. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. [SILS, Davis - KF4315 .F64 2004]

Freeman, M. (2005). Counterterrorism and privacy: The changing landscape of surveillance and civil liberties. In Freeman, L.A., & Peace, A.G. (eds.), Information Ethics: Privacy and Intellectual Property. Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing, 163-179. [Law Library - T58.5 .I5248 2005]

Gorham-Orscilowski, U., & Jaeger, P.T. (2008). National security letters, the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Constitution: The tensions between national security and civil rights. Government Information Quarterly, 25(4), 625-644. [UNC libraries]

Hartzel, K.S., & Deegan, P.E. (2005). Balancing individual privacy rights and intelligence needs: Procedural-based vs. distributive-based justice perspectives on the PATRIOT Act. In Freeman, L.A., & Peace, A.G. (eds.), Information Ethics: Privacy and Intellectual Property. Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing, 180-196. [Law Library - T58.5 .I5248 2005]

Jaeger, P. T., Bertot, J. C., & McClure, C. R. (2003). The impact of the USA PATRIOT Act on collection and analysis of personal information under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Government Information Quarterly, 20(3), 295-314. [UNC libraries]

Lilly, J.R. (2003). National security at what price? A look into civil liberty concerns in the information age under the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 and a proposed constitutional test for future legislation. Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 447(2), 448-472. [UNC libraries]

Nakashima, E. (2007, Nov. 2).  Librarians say surveillance bills lack adequate oversight. Washington Post, Section A, 6. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110102233.html.

Penniman, W.D. (2005). U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act: Where are we? Library & Archival Security, 20(1/2), 3-35. [UNC libraries]

Strickland, L. S. (2005). The USA PATRIOT Act redux: Should we reauthorize or repudiate the post-9/11 authorities? Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 31(5), 25-28. [UNC libraries]

Trinkaus-Randall, G. (2006). The USA PATRIOT Act: Archival implications. Journal of Archival Organization, 3(4), 7-23.  [UNC libraries]

USA PATRIOT Act Portal. (2003). Special Libraries Association. http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/advocacy/PATRIOTAct/index.cfm. Last accessed August 16, 2005.

Zetter, K. (2009, May 19). FBI use of PATRIOT Act authority increased dramatically in 2008.  Wired Magazine. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/fbi-use-of-patriot-act-authority-increased-dramatically-in-2008/.

Readings on Electronic Voting/Elections

Dill, D.L., & Castro, D. (2008). The U.S. should ban paperless electronic voting machines [Point/Counterpoint]. Communications of the ACM, 51(10), 29-35. [ACM Digital Library]

Dill, D. L., Schneier, B., & Simons, B. (2003). Viewpoint: Voting and technology: who gets to count your vote? [Viewpoint]. Communications of the ACM, 46(8), 29-31. [ACM Digital Library]

Dutton, W. H., Elberse, A., & Hale, M. (1999). A case study of a netizen's guide to elections. Communications of the ACM, 42(12), 49-54. [ACM Digital Library]

Farivar, C. (2008). Clean elections. Communications of the ACM, 51(10), 16-18. [ACM Digital Library]

Neumann, P.G. (ed.) (2004). The problems and potentials of voting systems [Special section, including ACM Statement on Voting Systems]. Communications of the ACM, 47(10). [ACM Digital Library, multiple articles]

Robertson, S. P. (2005). Voter-centered design: Toward a voter decision support system. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 12(2), 263-292. [ACM Digital Library]

Rubin, A. D. (2002). Security considerations for remote electronic voting. Communications of the ACM, 45(12), 39-44. [ACM Digital Library]

Woolley, T., & Fisher, C. (2004). Internet voting: Beyond technology. In Quigley, M. (ed.), Information Security and Ethics: Social and Organizational Issues. Hershey, PA: IRM Press, 117-138. [SILS - T14.5 .I55 2005]

Web Sites of Interest

Center for Democracy & Technology. http://www.cdt.org/

Additional References

Agre, P. E. (2001). Supporting the intellectual life of a democratic society. Ethics and Information Technology, 3(4), 289-298. [Online via UNC libraries]

Beniger, J. R. (1986). Introduction. In The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1-27. [Davis, UL - HM258 .B459 1986]

Bereano, P. (1997). Technology is a tool of the powerful. In Ermann, M. D., Williams, M. B., & Shauf, M. S. (Eds.), Computers, Ethics, and Society. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 26-32. [Davis - QA76.9 .C66 C6575 1997]

Bucy, E. P., & Gregson, K. S. (2001). Media participation: A legitimizing mechanism of mass democracy. New Media and Society: An International Journal, 3(3), 359-382. Reprinted in Bucy, E. P. (2005). Living in the Information Age: A New Media Reader. 2nd edition. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 221-231. [SILS - P91.25 .L58 2005]

Cameron, J., & Geiselhart, K. (1997). A charter for citizens of the global information society. In Berleur, J., & Whitehouse, D. (Eds.), An Ethical Global Information Society: Culture and Democracy Revisited. IFIP TC9 WG 9.2/9.5 International Conference on Culture and Democracy Revisited in the Global Information Society (May 8-10, 1997, Corfu, Greece). London: Chapman & Hall, 15-29. [Davis - HM221 .I456 1997]

d'Udekem-Gevers, M. (1997). Information highways: a threat to democracy? In Berleur, J., & Whitehouse, D. (Eds.), An Ethical Global Information Society: Culture and Democracy Revisited. IFIP TC9 WG 9.2/9.5 International Conference on Culture and Democracy Revisited in the Global Information Society (May 8-10, 1997, Corfu, Greece). London: Chapman & Hall, 249-260. [Davis - HM221 .I456 1997]

daSilveira, P. (2003). Representation, secrecy, and accountability. Journal of Information Ethics, 12(1), 8-20. [Online via UNC libraries]

Drew, J. (1995). Media activism and radical democracy. In Brook, J., & Boal, I. A. (1995). Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information. San Francisco: City Lights; Monroe, OR: Subterranean Co, 71-83. [Davis - HM221 .R47 1995]

Goodman, S. E. (1994). Computing in South Africa: an end to "apartness"? Communications of the ACM, 37(2), 21-25. [ACM Digital Library]

Goodrum, A., & Manion, M. (2000). Th ethics of hacktivism. Journal of Information Ethics, 9(2), 51-59. [SILS]

Gore, A. (1995). Global information infrastructure: remarks as delivered to the International Telecommunications Union, Monday, March 21, 1994. In Johnson, D. G. & Nissenbaum, H. (Eds.), Computers, Ethics, and Social Values. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 620-628. [Davis - QA76.9 .A25 C6665 1995]

Gore, A. (1991). Infrastructure for the global village. Scientific American, 265(3), 150-153. [UL, M/P]

Grossman, L. K. (1995). The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age. New York: Viking. [Davis - JK1764 .G76 1995]

Kavanaugh, A., & Isenhour, P. (2006). Designing technology for local citizen deliberation. Journal of Community Informatics, 2(2). Available at http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=192&layout=html

Michelfelder, D. P. (2004). Technological ethics in a different voice. In Kaplan, D. M. (ed.), Readings in the Philosophy of Technology. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 273-283. [SILS - T14 .R39 2004]

Rheingold, H. (1993). Disinformocracy. In The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 276-300. [Davis - TK5105.5 .R48 1993]

Schiller, H. I. (1978). Computer systems: power for whom and for what? Journal of Communication, 28(4), 184-193. [Davis - P87 .J6] Reprinted in Johnson, D. G., & Snapper, J. W. (1985). Ethical Issues in the Use of Computers. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 283-292. [Davis - QA76.9 .M65 E84 1985]

Tribe, L. H. (2004). The Constitution in cyberspace: Law and liberty beyond the electronic frontier. In Kaplan, D. M. (ed.), Readings in the Philosophy of Technology. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 259-271. [SILS - T14 .R39 2004]


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