[Air-l] How is the Internet bad for us?
Wainer Lusoli
w.lusoli at lse.ac.uk
Mon Jun 20 09:12:41 PDT 2005
David - you sure have seen
Trust and Crime in Information Societies (Mansell, R. & Brian S.
Collins), Edward Elgar Publishers, forthcoming January 2005. Also see
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/pdf/Synthesisofthesciencerevi
ews.pdf
This on the back of great old book edited by Bauer, M. (1995).
Resistance to new technology : nuclear power, information technology,
biotechnology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Quite a few micro accounts I seem to remember. I wrote something time
back but the dog ate it [well, the laptop was stolen].
Good look with the review
Best
Wainer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf
> Of David Brake
> Sent: 20 June 2005 15:01
> To: air-l-aoir.org at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-l] How is the Internet bad for us?
>
>
> Sorry - yet another collective picking of brains... As part of a
> literature review for a report I mentioned earlier (led by Sonia
> Livingstone and Andrea Millwood Hargrave) I am trying to pull
> together an overview of academic literature on the harms associated
> with Internet use. I am looking primarily for effects-centred
> literature and individual-level effects - things regulators might be
> reasonably expected to tackle - so macro-level theories are not what
> I am after.
>
> Here is a list of concerns I have come across in the literature so
> far. Can anyone suggest further areas where there has been research?
> Can anyone suggest concerns that haven't been researched but which
> need researching so we can recommend it? I would also be interested
> to receive further citations for any of the categories where I have
> indicated I haven't found much so far. I am aware this is a huge
> topic so I feel bound to have missed something...
>
> Note: this review will be freely downloadable online when it is
> finished and we hope will be a useful aid to both academics and
> regulators so please help if you can!
>
> Here are the categories of harm and offense I have found so far:
>
> Reinforcement of undesirable attitudes:
> * Anorexia
> * Hate group membership
> * suicide clubs
>
> Enabler of undesirable behavior:
> * Bullying (would like more lit)
> * Sexual harassment (would like more lit)
> * stalking (would like more lit)
> * Grooming of children by paedophiles (would like lit that provides
> quantitative evidence)
>
> Providing access to unsuitable/undesirable content
> * Porn
> * gambling (would like more lit)
> * alcohol/smoking and other anti-social advertising (would like more
> lit)
>
> To this I would add my personal favourite potential problem with the
> Information society:
>
> * The surveillance society'for your convenience and
> safety' (increased government and commercial surveillance and data
> mining related to your "public face")
> * The slow death of the privacy of your "private face" through
> increased public self-documentation and the self-documentation of
> others you interact with. What happens when significant
> numbers of us
> are cyborgs like Steve Mann http://wearcam.org/ and we're under
> continuous 'sousveillance'?
>
> My favourite book on the former issue is Garfinkel, S. (2000)
> Database Nation, O'Reilly, Cambridge but it is not an academic text.
> I would love to be able to say something in my lit review about
> either of these privacy issues but it is hard to measure the extent
> or the effects of such intrusion. Has anyone found any effects-based
> papers on either of these points?
>
> Or failing that could you recommend what you consider the key
> academic texts about the online privacy issue in general so I can
> cite them and add, "clearly more research is needed"?
>
> ---
> David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London
> School of Economics & Political Science
> <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/
> mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm>
> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/
> (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog)
> Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/
> dealingwithemail/>
> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)
>
>
>
> ---
> David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London
> School of Economics & Political Science
> <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/
> mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm>
> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/
> (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog)
> Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/
> dealingwithemail/>
> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)
>
> _______________________________________________
> The Air-l-aoir.org at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at:
> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-> aoir.org
>
> Join
> the Association of Internet Researchers:
>
http://www.aoir.org/
More information about the Air-L
mailing list