Computers, Human Interaction, and Organizations

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Vicente Berdayes, John W. Murphy

Book Code: C6385

ISBN: 0-275-96385-3

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96385-9

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264 pages, figures

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 8/30/2000

List Price: $125.00 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: As computers become more prevalent throughout society, the issue of computer-human interaction has become paramount to computer scientists and professionals furthering the computerization of organizations. Computers, Human Interaction, and Organizations revisits important theoretical and conceptual issues that have not been resolved in discussions of the increasing computerization of society. The authors here move beyond the technical issues relating to computerization to examine the social and political nature of information and computer technology using contemporary critical theory. This unique volume, therefore, offers a serious reflection on the proper scope and nature of computerization and the proper adjustment to and utilization of these instruments. According to the authors, without the guiding use of theory, computer use will be misguided and socially disruptive. Without a critical analysis of the issues involved in computer-human interaction, the current push to have computers support intimate interaction among workers and other groups may never come to fruition. By contrast, recognizing the computer as an expression of the technological worldview allows one to recognize the limits as well as the promise of these instruments and to define the proper scope of computerization. The authors of this volume help the reader understand the social nature of computer technology and the limits of its application while circumscribing socially responsible uses of the new technology.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Computers, Theorizing, and Practice by Vicente Berdayes and John M. Murphy
Life World: Computers, Logic and Values by Algis Mickunas and Argueta B. Hernandez
Contemptus Mundi: Reality as Disease by Eric Mark Kramer
Common Sense, Formal and Non-Formal Intelligence, and Computational Mimesis by Burt Hopkins and Jim Sheridan
From Dialogue to World: Theoretical Considerations on Dimensional Difference by Joseph J. Pilotta
Computer Reason and Rationality by Dee Vernberg
Computers, Foundationalism, and Legitimate Knowledge by John Murphy
Theories of Order, Computer Use, and Alienation by Jung Min Choi
Perspectives on Cyberspace as Constructed Reality by Karola M. Schwartz
On the Ethics of Constructing a Face in Cyberspace: Images of a University by Michael J. Hyde and Ananda Mitra
Hypertext and Radical Reading by Hugo Pérez-Hernáiz and John W. Murphy
The Technological Worldview and Social Scientific Reasoning: A Critical Appraisal by John T. Pardeck and Woo Sik Chung
Information and Behavioral Flows: The Historical Context of Workplace Computerization by Vicente Berdayes
Organizations, Management Philosophy, and the Use of Computers by Karen A. Callaghan
Selected Bibliography

LC Card Number: 99-059851

LCC Class: QA76

Dewey Class: 303


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