[Air-l] How is the Internet bad for us?

[Wainer Lusoli]

> Good look with the review

Never thought that the Mancunian accent would surface one day, and in
print :D

Wainer

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> [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf 
> Of Wainer Lusoli
> Sent: 20 June 2005 16:13
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: RE: [Air-l] How is the Internet bad for us?
> 
> 
> 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/Synthesisofthes
> ciencerevi
> 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].
> 

> 
> 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)
> > 
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