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digest 1997-01-28 #001



11:28 PM 1/27/97 -0800
From: "Society for Literature & Science" 

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Date: 27 Jan 1997 15:00:45 -0800
From: phoebe@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Fwd: professors -- please send me your reading lists
Phil Agre, a former Artificial Intelligence researcher and current
professor of communicaitons, does very interesting work in the social
aspects of computing.  I thought this request might be of interest to
many people on this list, as well.
Phoebe Sengers
phoebe@cs.cmu.edu
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:59:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Phil Agre 

To: rre@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: professors -- please send me your reading lists
If you have developed a good, thorough graduate-level reading list in
any
area relating to the social and political aspects [of computing - ed.],
please consider sending me a copy.  I will do three things with it:
* Include it in the RRE archive so others can benefit from it.
* Include it in the social informatics Web pages that are maintained
in the School of Library and Information Science at the University
of Indiana, http://www-slis.lib.indiana.edu/SI/
* Depending on how many readings lists I receive and how big they are,
I may send it to everyone on RRE.
My goal in collecting and distributing these reading lists is to
encourage
dialog among the remarkably numerous disciplines that have developed
vital
concerns with these issues.  Relevant topics include participatory
design,
requirements engineering, ethnographic studies of computing, computers
in
education, virtual communities, technoculture, intellectual property
law,
computer security, the geography of the information society, library
and
information science, the economics of information and technical
standards,
the sociology of technical work, software engineering,
telecommunications
policy, social networks, training, philosophical analyses of artificial
intelligence and other areas of applied computing, the social history
of
automation, and many of our favorite abbreviations, including CSCW,
CSCL,
MIS, and HCI.
Format: Please send me your reading list as a plain ASCII e-mail
message.
I cannot read MIME attachments.  If your reading list is a Microsoft
Word
document, you can use the "Save As" command to write it out as
"Text Only
With Line Breaks" and the resulting file will be approximately in
ASCII.
If you send the URL for a Web page then we can include a link in the
social
informatics pages.  Otherwise we can make a plain-vanilla Web page from
your ASCII, perhaps using the tags for preformatted text.
Thanks very much
Phil Agre