(Dis)Obedience in Digital Societies

Digital Libraries as Phenotypes for Digital Societies

Information Societies and Digital Divides

The book argues ICT are part of the set of goods and services that determine quality of life, social inequality and the chances for economic development. Therefore understanding the digital divide demands a broader discussion of the place of ICT within each society and in the international system. The author argues against the perspectives that either isolates ICT from other basic social goods ...

Disobedience and Authority

This paper presents a theory of the allocation of authority in an organization in which centralization is limited by the agent’s ability to disobey the principal. We show that workers are given more authority when they are costly to replace or do not mind looking for another job, even if they have no information advantage over the principal. The allocation of authority thus depends on external ...

Disobedience and Ambiguity in the User Interface

This paper describes the features that distinguish recognition based computer interfaces by considering the interaction process and using a simple model to assist in the definition of some of the terms associated with these interfaces. With reference to the user experience, Disobedience, Ambiguity, and Error-Proneness are described. The authors suggest that disobedience is a useful term that se...

Individual Digital Rights Management in Multi-agent Information Trading Societies

This position statement identifies a number of future applications of multi-agent systems based on information trading economies for large-scale, file-sharing applications. To achieve mass user support, we identify the key requirement for the realisation of such applications as the representation and management of individual digital rights. We outline an academic-industrial, Anglo-Japanese rese...