The impact of Human Choice and Computers and Technical Committee 9 on ICTs and society : a critical sociotechnical tale

Kreps, DGP; Fletcher, G

Abstract

In this chapter we briefly recount the history of the Human Choice and Computers conference series, and of Technical Committee 9, and show that not only has there been a marked focus, over more than four decades, on a critical and sociotechnical approach to understanding the relationship be-tween ICTs and society, but that HCC and TC9 might be regarded as the original and continuing home of the critical academic voice in ICT. We show this through a textual analysis of the proceedings of the conferences, and through biographical detail concerning the key players involved.

• Online Publication Date: Aug 4, 2021
• Publication Date: Aug 5, 2021
• Deposit Date: Apr 16, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 1, 2021
• Pages: 363-380
• Series Title: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
• Series Number: 600
• Book Title: Advancing Research in Information and Communication Technology : IFIP's exciting first 60+ years, views from the Technical Committees and Working Groups
• ISBN: 9783030817008-(hardback);-9783030817039-(paperback);-9783030817015-(ebook)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81701-5_15
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81701-5_15
• Related Public URLs: https://www.springer.com/series/6102; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81701-5
• Additional Information: Access Information : The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81701-5_15.
• Contract Date: Apr 15, 2021