Kling-Horwitz Positions

Rob Kling Bibliography

Electrostatics in Stueckelberg-Horwitz electrodynamics

In this paper, we study fundamental aspects of electrostatics as a special case in Stueckelberg-Horwitz electromagnetic theory. In this theory, spacetime events xμ(τ) evolve in an unconstrained 8-dimensional phase space, interacting through five τ-dependent gauge fields induced by the current densities associated with their evolutions. The chronological time τ was introduced as an independent e...

Rob Kling and the Irvine School

The Irvine School refers to an intellectual perspective on information technology in complex organizational settings that emerged at the University of California, Irvine, over the last three decades of the 20th century. In many ways, the rise of the Irvine School was synonymous with the rise of Rob Kling’s influence on the international community of scholars who would eventually form what Rob c...

Rick Horwitz: Words do not suffice

Around the turn of the century, the advent of large-scale, collaborative genomic se-quencing efforts greatly accelerated the pace of biomedical research. Genomic data allowed biologists to single out genes and proteins and probe their functional and structural activities. However, scientists still don't have a very good understanding of how different proteins work together in functional complex...

On Rob Kling: The Theoretical, the Methodological, and the Critical

We explore Rob Kling’s conceptual scaffolding for Social Informatics: his integration of theory, method and evidence and philosophical underpinnings and moral basis of his commitment to a critical stance towards computers and social life. He extended his focus on organizational practices and a lifelong meditation on democracy, value conflicts and social choices to the discourses of computerizat...