School of Information Management & Systems.   Spring 1997.   M. Buckland.   Infosys 101: Information Systems.

Exercise 9: Social responsibility issues. Due April 1.

This exercise continues our attention to content rather than searching skills.

Part 1:   Our guest speaker on April 1 will be Karen Coyle, librarian and chair of the Berkeley, California, chapter of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.    Examine her home-page:   http://www.dla.ucop.edu/~kec
Take the time to explore this site. Read what she has to say. Follow some of the links she provides. See what they have to say.


Part 2:   Identify and briefly summarize one that you find interesting. (As always, give the URL (location) and the exact date and time you examined it.









Part 3:   One of the sites linked to her home-page is concerned with personal privacy:   http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Dlife/Privacy2/
makes it easy to check the Internet to see if anyone is using your name.
Try it: http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Dlife/Privacy2/ss01.html
What, if anything, did you find?



Part 4: [OPTIONAL] Can you find any other interesting websites with other related material that you would recommend?







Note:   If you have questions for Karen Coyle or if you would like her to address in class some particular topic relating to anything mentioned in her home-page or to social responsibility in respect relation to information systems, send your question to her at
kec@dla.ucop.edu   with a copy to me, please, at  buckland@sims.berkeley.edu
Revised March 17, 1997.