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CPSR, P.O. Box 717, Palo Alto, CA 94302-0717 Phone: (650) 322-3778
CPSR Newsletters
The CPSR Newsletter is a highly regarded quarterly journal containing in-depth analysis of major issues involving technology. Starting with Winter 1999 The CPSR Newsletter is published online only. CPSR members receive timely notice of each new issue .Most past newsletters are now online (older ones mainly in plain text, newer ones in HTML). There is a subject index listing all articles going back to the first issue in 1983 until the late 90's Before the creation of PING! in July 2000, The CPSR Newsletter also contained CPSR news.
PING!
CPSR launched this publication in 2000 to better inform members, friends, and the press about CPSR news and activities. We have our fingers in many pies, and PING! will help us to understand our complexity and energy. We welcome contributions of news about CPSR groups and individual members. PING!s include News about Working Groups, Chapters, Board Initiatives, Newsletters, Conferences and Events, Contacts by the Press, and other work and representation of CPSR and its members.
We are planning publications of this postal mailing for August, November, February, and May. Deadlines for submissions of short content, including photos, to be considered will be July 10, October 30, January 10, and April 10. Send text submissions to cpsr@cpsr.org and attachments to cpsr@mindspring.com
CPSR Newsletters, Conference Proceedings, White Papers, Articles, and Reports Listed by Subject
- The Internet
- Community Networking / DIAC Conference Proceedings
- Cyber-Rights
- Computers in Education
- Elections and Voting
- Computers and the Environment
- Ethics
- Privacy and Civil Liberties
- Reliability and Risk
- Women and Computing
- Computers in the Workplace / Particpatory Design / PDC Conference Proceedings
- Miscellaneous
THE INTERNET
- Cyber-Governance
- The CPSR Newsletter, Guest editor: Karen Coyle, 16, 4 (Fall 1998), $5.00.
- This issue of the CPSR Newsletter highlights and summarizes CPSR's 1998 Annual Conference, devoted to Internet Governance. We ask questions about the relationship of the Internet to government, government to democracy, and democracy to communications.
- Cyber-Responsibilities
- The CPSR Newsletter, Guest editors: Evelyn Pine and Jeff Johnson, 16, 3 (Summer 1998), $5.00.
- Cyber-responsibilities -- For some denizens of cyberspace, the flip side of the cyber-rights issue is quite unnerving. Put simply, the idea of cyber-responsibilities bugs the hell out of some of our best friends and worthy colleagues in the technology-policy public-interest community. In our view, hostility to this topic grows from a heady mix of hacker ethic, free market fever, baby boom protest nostalgia, slacker attitude and generation X rebellion. Talk of cyber-responsibilities strikes some as group think, a call for government control, or blaming individuals for the sins of institutions. As CPSR stalwart, Terry Winograd puts it, "The central division among the CPSR membership concerns the individual's relationship with society. Is it dominated by questions of rights (the 'libertarian' view) or of responsibilities (the 'progressive' view)?"
- Internet Governance
- The CPSR Newsletter, Guest editor: Harry Hochheiser , 16, 2 (Spring 1998), $5.00.
- As businesses and governments tackle questions of control over the Internet, several trends have become distressingly clear. These debates often lack significant discussion of societal issues and the needs of Internet end-users. Furthermore, the issues are often misunderstood and poorly reported. CPSR's "One Planet, One Net" focus is designed to address these concerns. By bringing attention to the issuse and their implications, and providing information that will help non-"techies" fight through the confusion of the 'Net, we hope to raise public awareness and understanding of the issues at stake. This newsletter contains a variety of perspectives on Internet Governance.
- One Planet, One Net
- The CPSR Newsletter, Guest editor: Nathaniel Borenstein,15, 4 (Fall 1997), $5.00.
- This issue of the CPSR Newsletter summarizes CPSR's 1997 Annual Conference, and presents CPSR's Principles for the Internet Era,that can ensure that the Net will be used to change the human condition for the better, and can prevent or mitigate its less desirable consequences. For our global community to reach its potential in this networked world, the following principles must be understood and respected as we consider the more detailed daily questions that arise in the administration or governance of the Net.
Serving the Community: A Public Interest Vision of the National Information Infrastructure
COMMUNITY NETWORKS
- Shaping the Network Society
- The CPSR Newsletter, Guest editors: Peter Day and Doug Schuler,18, 2 (Summer 2000) .
- Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing
Proceedings from the DIAC 2000 conference. - See:
Proceedings from the DIAC '92 conference.
- Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing
Proceedings from the DIAC '90 conference. - Edited by Douglas Schuler. Softcover, 262 pages. $20.00
- Includes papers on community building with voice technology, affectionate technology, computers and education, computer models and public policy, conduct codes, and virtual reality.
CYBER-RIGHTS
- Cyber-Responsibilities
- The CPSR Newsletter, Guest editors: Evelyn Pine and Jeff Johnson, 16, 3 (Summer 1998), $5.00.
- Cyber-responsibilities -- For some denizens of cyberspace, the flip side of the cyber-rights issue is quite unnerving. Put simply, the idea of cyber-responsibilities bugs the hell out of some of our best friends and worthy colleagues in the technology-policy public-interest community. In our view, hostility to this topic grows from a heady mix of hacker ethic, free market fever, baby boom protest nostalgia, slacker attitude and generation X rebellion. Talk of cyber-responsibilities strikes some as group think, a call for government control, or blaming individuals for the sins of institutions. As CPSR stalwart, Terry Winograd puts it, "The central division among the CPSR membership concerns the individual's relationship with society. Is it dominated by questions of rights (the 'libertarian' view) or of responsibilities (the 'progressive' view)?"
COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION
- Education Technology: A Tool for Change, A Focus for Organizing
- The CPSR Newsletter, Guest editor: Netiva Caftori, 15, 1 (Winter 1997). $5.00.
- Technology has invaded our schools in more than one way. Whether schools and teachers are ready to embrace it is a different issue. Those who have chosen to integrate it into their curriculum of study are not always doing so with much prior planning. It seems as if many children do more learning about technology outside of the school's boundary or at least the school's physical walls. Many students are now able to access educational centers through distance learning and on-line facilities. Virtual communities are thus able to be formed. Is the U.S. leading the way in educational technology?
- Computing, Ethics, and Social Responsibility: A Bibliography.
- Edited by Herman T. Tavani. 1996, 157 pages. $15.00.
- Includes sections on issues of moral and social responsibility for computer professionals; sources on teaching computers, ethics, and social responsibility; and a unit on the future of computing and the quality of life.
- Technology in Education: Everybody's Business.
- The CPSR Newsletter, Guest editor: Judith Stern, 12, 2 (Spring 1994), $5.00.
- Computers and Social Responsibility:
A Collection of Course Syllabi - Edited by Terry Winograd and Batya Friedman. 1990, 143 pages. $15.00.
- Includes sections on social implications of computing, social analyses of computing, ethics for computer professionals, computers in the arts, computers in the military, computers in the third world, and computers in education.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
- Getting the Chad Out: Elections, Technology, and Reform
- The CPSR Newsletter, Guest-editor: Erik Nilsson, 19, 1 (Winter 2001)
- Emerging Democratic Communities
- The CPSR Newsletter, Guest editor: Erik Nilsson , 16, 1 (Winter 1998), $5.00.
- Information-age democracies depend on technology. New, more responsive forms of governance are possible, but we become dependent on election technologies that sometimes fail. For over ten years, CPSR has conducted projects on the use of electoral computing. CPSR members have observed elections, investigated irregularities, contributed to standards documents, and been consultants to election commissions. This issue examines how technology has changed democracy. Four CPSR correspondents report on the changing technological face of democracy, from war-torn Africa to the Internet.
- Bits of the South African Election.
- The CPSR Newsletter, Guest editor: Erik Nilsson,13, 1 (Winter 1995).
- Special Report on Computing and Elections.
- Election Watch, a project of the Urban Policy Research Institue and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. 11 pages, $5.00.
ETHICS
- Ethics in Technology
- The CPSR Newsletter, Guest-editors: Elizabeth Buchanan and Netiva Caftori18, 3 (Spring 2000).
- Computers, Ethics, and Social Responsibility by Terry Winograd.
- The CPSR Newsletter, 10, 3 (Summer 1992). $5.00.
- A Conduct Code: An Ethics Code with Bite
- by Joel Wolfson. July 1990, 17 pages. $4.00. (Also appears in the DIAC '90 proceedings.)
- The greatest obstacle in applying meaningful ethical standards is that few people believe their own actions are unethical. A good conduct code must set clear specific standards for behavior which computer professionals agree are unacceptable, despite attempted rationalization. This paper provides a proposed code of conduct.
ETHICS
- Computers, Ethics, and Social Responsibility.
- Terry Winograd. The CPSR Newsletter, 10, 3 (Summer 1992). $5.00.
- A Conduct Code: An Ethics Code with Bite
- by Joel Wolfson. July 1990, 17 pages. $4.00. (Also appears in the DIAC '90 proceedings.)
- The greatest obstacle in applying meaningful ethical standards is that few people believe their own actions are unethical. A good conduct code must set clear specific standards for behavior which computer professionals agree are unacceptable, despite attempted rationalization. This paper provides a proposed code of conduct.
- The Tavani Bibliography of Computing, Ethics, and Social Responsibility
- By Herman Tavani
- Also available in print form from CPSR - cpsr @ cpsr.org
COMPUTERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- Computers and the Environment.
- the CPSR Newsletter, 8, 3 (Summer 1990). $5.00.
PRIVACY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
- Telephone Privacy in the 90s: Selected CPSR publications on Calling Number ID.
- Edited by Dr. Ronni Rosenberg. July 1992, 54 pages. $15.00.
- Seventeen pieces by CPSR staff and members testimony, speeches, press releases, articles, from 1989 through 1992.
- Civil Liberties and the Electronic Frontier: Mapping the Terrain.
- Edited by Richard Civille. February 1990, 41 pages, $10.
- Conference Report of 1990 CPSR Roundtable, Sponsored by The Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- Computer Monitoring: A Threat to Privacy?
- by Karen Nussbaum (National Association of Working Women). October 1989, 4 pages. $3.00. (Also a part of the Workplace papers.)
- New technology creates capabilities in computer monitoring which make it qualitatively different from supervision in the past. Why is workplace surveillance increasing? What's wrong with computer monitoring? What can be done about it?
- Data Protection, Computers and Changing Information Practices.
- by Marc Rotenberg, Professor Mary Culnan, and Dr. Ronni Rosenberg. May 16, 1990, 23 pages. $6.00.
- Testimony before the Subcommittee on Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture. 101st Congress, 2d Session 109.
- Privacy in the Computer Age.
- by Ronni Rosenberg. January 1989, 18 pages. $5.00.
- Examines the relationship between computerized data banks and personal privacy, focusing on the conflict between the right to obtain information and the right of the individual "to be let alone."
- Governmental Restrictions on the Development and Dissemination of Cryptographic Technologies.
- by David Sobel. September 1992, 6 pages. $4.00.
- This paper explores the policy issues raised by the digital signature standard proposed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It questions the role played by the National Security Agency in the development of the DSS and in cryptography policy generally.
- The Police, Technology, and the Los Angeles Rebellion.
- The CPSR Newsletter, 11, 3 (Fall 1993). $5.00.
RELIABILITY AND RISK
- Setting a New Course for Science and Technology Policy:
The 21st Century Project Report - by Gary Chapman and Joel Yudkin. July, 1993, 195 pages. $15.00
- Describes and critiques an emerging post-Cold War paradigm for science and technology policy, and offers an alternative vision.
- Setting a New Course for Science and Technology Policy:
Executive Summary of The 21st Century Project Report - by Gary Chapman and Joel Yudkin. July, 1993, 20 pages. $5.00.
- Gives an overview of the main points of the full report.
WOMEN AND COMPUTING
- Computerization and Women's Knowledge
- by Lucy Suchman and Brigitte Jordon. August 1988, 9 pages. $4.00.
- To design technology relevant to women's concerns requires legitimizing the authority of women's knowledge and competence on their own terms. This paper explores the relationship between authoritative knowledge and the process of technology design, with particular attention to the situation of women.
COMPUTERS IN THE WORKPLACE/ PARTICIPATORY DESIGN
- Computers as Supervisors: Privacy and Keystroke Monitoring, by Jeff Johnson (CPSR/Palo Alto), August 1986, 2 pages.
- Computers in the Workplace Panel Discussion, January 1987, 3 pages.
- Computers in the Workplace: Annotated Bibliography, last updated January 1991, 19 pages.
- Computers in Context; Film Review, by Howie Shrobe (CPSR/Boston), May 1987 4 pages.
- National Study Group Call for Participation, June 1988, 3 pages.
- Computers in the Workplace Proposed Projects, by Eric Roberts and Paul Czyzewski, July 1989, 11 pages.
- Computer Monitoring: A Threat to Privacy? Karen Nussbaum (National Association of Working Women), October 1989, 4 pages.
- Origins of the Scandinavian School: Transparencies from PDC '90 conference. Kristen Nygaard (University of Oslo). April 1990, 75 pages. $10.00
MISCELLANEOUS
- FTP archives of older CPSR documents.
- A Computer & Information Technologies Platform
- by The Peace and Justice Working Group, CPSR/Berkeley
- Describes a possible program for research, development, and implementation of computer and information technologies that will move towards resolving our most pressing social needs. October 1992, 30 pages. $4.00.
- Reading "All About' Computerization:
Five Common Genres of Social Analyses - by Rob Kling
- Examines the popular, professional and scholarly literature which claims to describe the actual nature of computerization. This paper looks at 5 common genres of writing, exploring strengths and limitations of this particular form of social analysis. July 1990, 39 pages. $10.00. (Also appears in the DIAC '90 proceedings.)