On approaches to the study of social issues in computing
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 24 (3), 146-155
- https://doi.org/10.1145/358568.358592
Abstract
This paper identifies and analyzes technical and nontechnical biases in research on social issues in computing. Five positions— technicism, progressive individualism, elitism, pluralism, and radical criticism —which reflect major streams of contemporary social thought are examined. The analysis of positions documents the close relationship between research and policy formation and reveals the misleading and dangerous character of the presumption of scholarly objectivity in research on social issues.Keywords
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