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Footnote

Rez. in: JASIST 58(2007) no.1, S.150-151 (L. Westbrook): "The purpose of this volume is to bring together various analyses by international scholars of the social and cultural impact of information technology on individuals and societies (preface, n.p.). It grew from the First International Conference on Human Perspectives in the Internet Society held in Cadiz, Spain, in 2004. The editors and contributors have addressed an impressive array of significant issues with rigorous research and insightful analysis although the resulting volume does suffer from the usual unevenness in depth and content that affects books based on conference proceedings. Although the $256 price is prohibitive for many individual scholars, the effort to obtain a library edition for perusal regarding particular areas of interest is likely to prove worthwhile. Unlike many international conferences that are able to attract scholars from only a handful of nations, this genuinely diverse conference included research conducted in Australia, Beijing, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, England, Fiji, Germany, Greece, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Norway, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States. The expense of a conference format and governmental travel restrictions may have precluded greater inclusion of the work being done to develop information technology for use in nonindustrialized nations in support of economic, social justice, and political movements. Although the cultural variants among these nations preclude direct cross-cultural comparisons, many papers carefully provide sufficient background information to make basic conceptual transfers possible. A great strength of the work is the unusual combination of academic disciplines that contributes substantially to the depth of many individual papers, particularly when they are read within the larger context of the entire volume. Although complete professional affiliations are not universally available, the authors who did name their affiliation come from widely divergent disciplines including accounting, business administration, architecture, business computing, communication, computing, economics, educational technology, environmental management, experimental psychology, gender research in computer science, geography, human work sciences, humanistic informatics, industrial engineering, information management, informatics in transport and telecommunications, information science, information technology, management, mathematics, organizational behavior, pedagogy, psychology, telemedicine, and women's education. This is all to the good, but the lack of representation from departments of women's studies, gender studies, and library studies certainly limits the breadth and depth of the perspectives provided.

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Footnote

Sämtliche Beiträge sind von hohem Niveau und bieten anspruchsvolle Lektüre. Verallgemeinert formuliert, fragen sie nach der Verknüpfung zwischen dem breiteren Kontext des Warum und Wie der menschlichen Informationssuche und den technischen bzw. sonstigen Randbedingungen, die die Interaktion zwischen Benutzern und Systemen bestimmen. Natürlich liegt hier kein Hand- oder Lehrbuch vor, sodass man - fairerweise - nicht von einer systematischen Behandlung dieses Themenbereichs oder einem didaktischen Aufbau ausgehen bzw. derlei erwarten darf. Das Buch bietet jedenfalls einen guten und vielfältigen Einstieg und Einblick in dieses interessante Forschungsgebiet. Fachlich einschlägige und größere allgemeine Bibliotheken sollten es daher jedenfalls in ihren Bestand aufnehmen. Schon die Rezension des oben zitierten zweiten Buches des Herausgeber-Duos Spink-Cole enthielt einen kritischen Hinweis auf das dortige Sachregister. Der vorliegende Band erfordert noch stärkere Nerven, denn der hier als "Index" bezeichnete Seitenfüller spottet geradezu jeder Beschreibung, umso mehr, als wir uns in einem informationswissenschaftlichen Kontext befi nden. Was soll man denn tatsächlich mit Einträgen wie "information" anfangen, noch dazu, wenn dazu über 150 verschiedene Seitenzahlen angegeben werden? Ähnlich verhält es sich mit anderen allgemeinen Begriffen wie z.B. "knowledge", "model", "tasks", "use", "users" - allesamt mit einer gewaltigen Menge von Seitenzahlen versehen und damit ohne Wert! Dieses der Leserschaft wenig dienliche Register ist wohl dem Verlag anzulasten, auch wenn die Herausgeber selbst seine Urheber gewesen sein sollten. Davon abgesehen wurde wieder einmal ein solide gefertigter Band vorgelegt, der allerdings wegen seines hohen Preis eher nur institutionelle Käufer ansprechen wird."