2002 International Symposium on Technology and Society

(ISTAS'02)

Social Implications of Information and Communication Technology

June 6-8, 2002

Sheraton Capital Center Hotel, Raleigh, NC

 

Final Program

 

June 6, Thursday

 

 

3:00 pm-8:00 pm

Registration

 

5:00 pm-6:30 pm 

Welcoming Reception – Hannover II and III

Heavy Hors d'oeuvres, Cash Bar

 

Sponsored by NC State University E-Commerce Learning Center

 

6:30 pm-8:00 pm 

                  

Opening Plenary Session – Hannover I

Moderator: Keith Miller, University of Illinois at Springfield

 

Coming of Age in the Computer Era: An Ethical Awakening

Dr. Donald Gotterbarn, East Tennessee State University

Recipient of 2002 ACM SIGCAS Making a Difference Award

Respondent: James H. Moor, Dartmouth College

 

Sponsored by ACM-SIGCAS

 

June 7, Friday

 

 

8:00 am-5:30 pm   

Registration

 

8:00 am-9:00 am

Continental Breakfast - Prefunction

 

9:00 am-10:30 am

Main Plenary Session – Hannover I

Moderator: Joseph R. Herkert, North Carolina State University

Welcome: Clinton J. Andrews, President, IEEE-SSIT

Welcome: Thomas Miller, Vice Provost for Distance Education and Learning Technology, North Carolina State University

Speaker introduction: Carolyn Miller, North Carolina State University

 

Reconfiguring ICT as Practice

Dr. Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University

 

Sponsored by IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section and

The NCSU Libraries

 

10:30 am-11:00 am

Break – Prefunction

 

11:00 am-12:30 pm

 

Concurrent Session I

IA—Online Communities - Governors I

Moderator: Clinton J. Andrews, Rutgers University

 

1.     Seeking Community on the Internet: Ethnocultural Use of Information Communication Technology

Amanda Aizlewood and Maureen Doody, Strategic Research Unit of the Department of Canadian Heritage

2.     Revitalizing an Online Community

Diane Maloney-Krichmar, Chadia Abras, and Jennifer Preece, University of Maryland Baltimore County

3.     The Meaning of an Online Health Community in the Lives of Its Members: Roles, Relationships, and Group Dynamics

Diane Maloney-Krichmar and Jennifer Preece, University of Maryland Baltimore County

4.     The War on Afghanistan and the Growth of Protest Space on the Internet

Mike Healy, University of Westminster

 

 

IB—ICT and Development, I - Governors II

Moderator: Georgia Valaoras, University of La Verne, Athens

 

1.     EHAS Program: Rural Telemedicine Systems for Primary Healthcare in Developing Countries

Andrés Martínez, Valentín Villarroel, Joaquín Seoane and Francisco del Pozo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

2.     Community Knowledge Sharing: An Internet Application to Support Communications Across Literacy Levels

Hani Shakeel and Michael L. Best, MIT Media Lab

3.     Electronic Commerce and Its Socio-economic Implications in Brazilian Small and Medium Enterprises

Muna M. Odeh, Edson dos Santos Moreira, Thais F. Leite Madeira, NUMA, ICMC, Universidade de São Paulo

 

 

IC—ICT and Intellectual Property – Hannover II

Moderator: Brian O’Connell, Central Connecticut State University

 

1.     Including the Technical Personnel: An Alternative IP Model in the Development of Distributed Learning Courses

Sarah Stein, North Carolina State University

2.     Is the Patent System Broken? (If It Isn't Broken, Don't Fix It)

Robert D. (Bob) Hunter, P.E.

3.     Nothing To Claim - There Is No Such Thing As Intellectual Property

Hendrik Speck, University of Applied Sciences, Kaiserslautern

 

 

ID—Gender Issues in ICT – Hannover III

Moderator: Mary Wyer, North Carolina State University

 

1.     Gender Equity and the use of Information Communication Technologies in the Knowledge Economy: Taking a Feminist Postructuralist Approach

Sheila French, Manchester Metropolitan University

2.     Gender, Culture and Science:  Exploring Underrepresentation

Pauline Cushman, Anthony Teate and Elizabeth Adams, James Madison University

3.     Confronting Gender Equity in Information and Communication Technologies: Girls, Girl Scouts, and Informal Education Strategies to Increase Participation

Patricia J. Paddock, Girl Scouts of the USA

 

12:30 pm-2:00 pm

Lunch – Hannover I

Sponsored by IEEE Eastern North Carolina Section

 

Information Session: IEEE-SSIT

 

2:00 pm-3:30 pm

Concurrent Session II

IIA—Digital Divide, I – Governors I

Moderator: John Weckert, Charles Sturt University

 

1.     Bridging the Digital Divide

Emma Rooksby and John Weckert, Charles Sturt University

2.     Providing Web Search Capability for Low-Connectivity Communities

Libby Levison, William Thies, and Saman Amarasinghe, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

3.     Information and Communications Technology for Poverty Reduction.  Lessons from Rural India

Simone Cecchini, Poverty Reduction Group, The World Bank

4.     Effective Application of ICT to Improving the Quality of Life and Reducing Poverty in Poor Countries: Recent Experiences and New Approaches

Edward Farell and Marta Rumich, E. Farell Consulting Company, Ltd

 

 

IIB—Panel: Gender Inequality and the Technological Fix – Governors II

Moderator: Mary Wyer, North Carolina State University

 

1.     Perpetual Dirt and the Self-Cleaning House

Mary Wyer, North Carolina State University

2.     Selling Science

Mary Barbercheck, North Carolina State University

3.     Medicating for Gender Inequality

Donna Cookmeyer, Duke University

4.     Even More Work for Mother

Hatice Őrűn Őztűrk, North Carolina State University

 

 

IIC—Technology Policy – Hannover II

Moderator: Nicholas DiPasquale, Delaware Secretary of Natural Resources and Environmental Control

    

1.     Credibly Constructing Risk Comparisons

Clinton J. Andrews, Rutgers University

2.     Addressing Ethical and Professional Risks of ICT Development Using Software Development Impact Statements

Donald Gotterbarn, East Tennessee State University

3.     Learning From Information Technology Management Disasters

Mark Manion, Drexel University    

4.     Spatial Decision Support Systems for Local Government: The Unintended Consequences of Tightened Security on the Local Decision Making Process

Christopher L. Fulcher and James K. Scott, University of Missouri—Columbia

                

 

IID—Teaching Resources for Computer Ethics – Hannover III

Organizer and Moderator: Keith Miller, University of Illinois at Springfield

 

1.     Preparing to Teach Ethics in a Computer Science Curriculum

Alfreda Dudley-Sponaugle and Doris Lidtke, Towson University

2.     Blackboard: A Web-Based Resource In the Teaching of A Multi-disciplinary /Multi-Institutional Computer Ethics Course

Frances Grodzinsky, Sacred Heart University and Joe Griffin, University of Limerick

3.     The DOLCE Project - NSF Funded Materials for Computer Ethics

Chuck Huff, St. Olaf College, Deborah Johnson, University of Virginia and Keith Miller, University of Illinois at Springfield

 

3:30 pm-4:00 pm

Break - Prefunction

 

4:00 pm-5:30 pm

Concurrent Session III

IIIA—Online Instruction - Governors I

Moderator: Bradley Kjell, Central Connecticut State University

 

1.     Research Ethics and Intellectual Property-Copyright Issues: Some Pedagogical Challenges in Developing an Online Instructional Module

Nell Kriesberg and Rebeca C. Rufty, North Carolina State University

2.     New Technologies, Old Practices: The Traditional Use of Electronic Courseware

Pauline Hope Cheong, Namkee Park and William H. Dutton, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California

3.     Information and Communication Technology, On-line and ‘e-Tuition’ Applications: Seeking Student Opinion and Preferences in Relation to Internet Teaching and Learning

Gerald A. Shortland-Webb, Curtin University of Technology, School of Management, Perth

 

 

IIIB—Electronic Documents – Governors II

Moderator: Carolyn Miller, North Carolina State University

 

1.     Research Information Portal for Telecommunications

Kerstin Zimmermann, ftw. (Telecommunications Research Center, Vienna)

2.     The Impact of Digital Books Upon Print Publishing

David F. McAllister, Nancy McAllister, and Steve Vivian, Boson Books/C&M Online Media, Inc

   

 

IIIC—ICT and Privacy – Hannover II

Moderator: Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

 

1.     Personal, Private, Secret, Public

David Primeaux and James E. Ames IV, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond

3.     Privacy on the Information Landscape: A Call for Cyberliteracy

Laura J. Gurak, University of Minnesota

4.     Video Surveillance for the Rest of Us: Proliferation, Privacy, and Ethics Education

Peter Danielson, Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia

 

 

IIID—ICT and Society: Past, Present, Future – Hannover III

Moderator: Thomas Jepsen, National Coalition of Independent Scholars

 

1.     Cell Phone Usage: An Analysis of Users’ Subjective Responses in the Adoption 

Kumiko Aoki and Edward Downes, Boston University

2.     Teaching Ethics and the Internet 2.0: Pervasive Computing, Consumer Electronics and Progressive Embodiment

Wendy Robinson, Duke University

 

6:00 pm-8:30 pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:30 pm

Banquet – Hannover I

Cash Bar 6:00-8:00 pm

Dinner Served 6:30 pm

 

After Dinner Program

Moderator: Michael Loui, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dramatic Reading of “The Sunshine Borgs”

A Play by Richard Epstein, West Chester University of PA

 

Mingle with the CPSR Research Triangle Park Chapter and the CPSR Board –

The Bar

 

June 8, Saturday

 

 

8:00 am-12:30 pm   

Registration

 

8:00 am-9:00 am

Continental Breakfast - Prefunction

 

8:00 am-9:00 am

 

INSEIT Meeting – Hannover III

9:00 am-10:30 am

Concurrent Session IV

IVAModels of Online Education & the Virtual University: Key Political, Technological, and Pedagogical Issues – Governors I

Moderator: Chris Werry, San Diego State University

 

1.     The Design and Representation of Distance Learning: Models, Standards, and Open Source Courseware

Chris Werry, San Diego State University

2.     The Rhetorics of Restructuring in Higher Education: Unpacking the Ideologies of Informatic Inevitability, Network Necessity, and Telematic Transformation

Tim Luke, Virginia Tech

3.     Intervening in the Closure of a Technological System: The Role of Rhetoric in E-learning Standardization

      Megan Little, San Diego State University

 

 

IVB—Panel: Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Age – Governors II

Moderator: Paul Hyland, CPSR-DC

 

Panelists:

Erik Adolfson, University of Virginia

Paul Jones, ibiblio.org and University of North Carolina

Jay Kesan, University of Illinois

James Love, Consumer Project on Technology

 

 
IVC—Social and Ethical Perspectives on ICT – Hannover II

Moderator: Michael Loui, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

1.     Information Ethics in the Design, Creation and Use of Metadata

Roberta Brody, Queens College, City University of New York

2.     Encountering Distressing Information in Online Research: A Consideration of Legal and Ethical Responsibilities

Susannah R. Stern, Boston College

3.     Information Technology, New Organizational Concepts and Employee Participation—Will Unionism Survive?

Markus Helfen, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, Stuttgart and Lydia Krüger, University of Trier

 

10:30 am-11:00 am

Break - Prefunction

 

11:00 am-12:30 pm

Concurrent Session V

VA—Facilitating Citizen Policy Deliberations: Adapting the Danish Consensus Conference to the Internet - Governors I

Moderator: Patrick Hamlett, North Carolina State University

 

1.     Adapting the Internet to Citizen Deliberations: Lessons Learned

Patrick W. Hamlett, North Carolina State University

2.     Trusting the Experts, Online and Off

Carolyn R. Miller, North Carolina State University

3.     True Deliberation in Technology Mediated Group Communication

Jane Macoubrie, North Carolina State University

4.     Policy Debate on the Internet: Panelists Evaluate the Process

Kathleen Prosseda, North Carolina State University

 

 

VB—Panel: Building Community With ICT – Governors II

Moderator: Roscoe Giles, Institute for African American Eculture

 

Panelists:

Versonya DuPont, Northwestern University

Roscoe Giles, Boston University

Stephenie McLean, National Computational Science Alliance

Randal Pinkett, Building Community Technology (BCT) Partners, Inc.

 

 

VC—Legal Issues and ICT: Free Speech and Intellectual Property – Hannover II

Moderator: Brian O’Connell, Central Connecticut State University

 

1.     “Secondary Effects”, Digital Technology, and Free Speech: The Internet and the First Amendment

Thomas R. Flynn, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

2.     Intellectual Property and the Process of Invention: Why Software is Different

Robert Plotkin, Esq., Law Office of Robert Plotkin, Esq.

3.     Anti-Circumvention Misuse, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DMCA

Dan L. Burk, University of Minnesota

 

12:30 pm-2:00 pm

Lunch – Hannover I

 

Information Session: ACM-SIGCAS

 

2:00 pm-3:30 pm

Concurrent Session VI

VIA—Design Issues in ICT – Governors I

Moderator: Jay P. Kesan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

1.     Improving Web-based Civic Information Access: A Case Study of the 50 US States
Irina Ceaparu and Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland

2.     The Message is the Message: Designing Information Technology for Inclusiveness and Accessibility

Judith Davis, Tyler Kendall, and Hal Meeks, North Carolina State University

3.     Incorporating Societal Concerns into Communication Technologies

Rajiv Shah and Jay P. Kesan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

 

VIB—Panel: The Teaching, Learning, & Technology Roundtable (TLTR) as a Model of the Networked University – Hannover III

Moderator: Sarah Stein, North Carolina State University

 

1.     Introduction to the TLTR Model     

Sarah Stein, North Carolina State University

2.     The TLTR from the IT Division Perspective                 

Sam Averitt, North Carolina State University

3.     The TLTR from the Faculty Perspective            

Henry Shaffer, North Carolina State University

4.     The TLTR from the Learning Technology Services Perspective

Donna Petherbridge, North Carolina State University

5.     The TLTR from the Student Services Perspective        

Stan North Martin, North Carolina State University

6.     The TLTR from the Online Teaching Perspective        

Lavon Page, North Carolina State University

7.     The TLTR from the Staff Senate Perspective               

Harry Nicholos, North Carolina State University

 

 

VIC—Digital Divide, II – Hannover II

Moderator: Karl Stephan, Southwest Texas State University 

 

1.     Toward Social and Cultural Resonance with Technology: Case Studies from the Creating Community Connections Project

Randal D. Pinkett, Building Community Technology (BCT) Partners, Inc.

2.     Digital Inclusion, Social Exclusion and Retailing: An Analysis of Data from the 1999 Scottish Household Survey

David Fitch, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

3.     Towards a Critical Approach to Examining the Digital Divide

William J. McIver, Jr., University at Albany (SUNY) and Arthur P. Prokosch, Brown University

 

 

VID—Real Responsibility for Virtual Harms – Governors II

Organizer: Keith Miller, University of Illinois at Springfield

Moderator: Deborah G. Johnson, University of Virginia

 

1.     Virtual Harms and Virtual Responsibility: A Rape In Cyberspace

Chuck Huff, St. Olaf College, Deborah G. Johnson, University of Virginia and Keith Miller, University of Illinois at Springfield

2.     Cyberstalking: Moral Responsibility, and Legal Liability Issues for Internet Services Providers

Frances S. Grodzinsky, Sacred Heart University and Herman T. Tavani, Rivier College

3.     Educators and Pornography:  The “Unacceptable Use” of School Computers

  Myra G. Day and Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina

  State University