Social Informatics (SI)

(formerly SIG TIS)

SIG SI, formerly SIG TIS, acts as a channel and source of information about the issues (including moral and ethical issues) arising from the way technological advances in information transfer affect society. It strives to understand future implications of an ever-changing technology and what the changes will mean, while considering possible controls and procedures as the techniques are being developed. Areas of interest include the pressures and effects on information services of the privacy issue; private rights vs. freedom of information; the introduction of CATV and video recording, possibly to substantially replace printing or photography as the media of information exchange; the effects on information services of copyright laws; the responsibility for information disseminated by government, credit bureaus, news media, etc., and its possible regulation; and social, political and economic factors in international information flow.

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