Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices

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...

Chapter 3 The Computerization Movement In The US Home Mortgage Industry : Automated Underwriting From 1980 To 2004

This paper reports on an empirical investigation of a particular computerization movement—the diffusion of automated underwriting in the US home mortgage industry—over a twenty-plus year timeframe. Building on and extending seminal work by Kling and Iacono (1988, 1995, 2001), this paper demonstrates the influences of technological action frames, particularly the productivity master frame, on au...

Social and Cultural Integration as a Way of Resolving the Identities Conflicts in the Modern Russia: A Regional Aspect

The goal of the research is to analyze the social and cultural integration as a tool for resolving the identities conflicts in the modern Russia. The methodology of research includes the systemic, social and philosophical analysis of social and cultural integration as a way for settling the identities conflicts in the North Caucasus. As a result of the study the author comes to the fact that a ...

Values in Health Care: Choices and Conflicts / A Question of Values: Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices that Shape our Lives

تبیین تجارب حل تعارض ارزشی مدرسان دانشگاه علوم پزشکی کاشان،یک مطالعه کیفی

Introduction: The values of individuals that orient their preferences and behaviors are not the same; this can lead to disagreements and be the basis of value conflicts. The present study aimed to analyze the value conflict resolution experiences and how to deal with the value conflicts among the faculty members. Methods: In this qualitative study, a semi-structured interview was carried out w...