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.