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[null,"1.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910985661903321"]
[null,null,"Autore",null,"Mowshowitz Abbe"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Computers and Society in the Past Half Century : The Conquest of Will Revisited"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Bradford : , : Ethics International Press Limited, , 2024"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2024"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9781804415436"]
[{"$nulls":4},"180441543X"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9781804415429"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1804415421"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (414 pages)"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Computers and civilization"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Social aspects"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Intro -- Introduction: Computers and Society in the Past Half Century -- Historical Context (See Chapters 1 and 2) -- Computer Utilization (See Chapter 3) -- Management and Decision Making (See Chapter 4) -- Employment and Work Life (See Chapter 5) -- Education (See Chapter 6) -- Health Care (See Chapter 7) -- The Computer Utility (See Chapter 8) -- Privacy and Surveillance (See Chapter 9) -- Computers and Government (See Chapter 10) -- Systems Analysis and Modelling (See Chapter 11) -- The Myth of Complexity (See Chapter 12) -- Man-Machine Interaction (See Chapter 13) -- Machine Intelligence and Human Identity (See Chapter 14) -- Conquest of Will (See Chapter 15) -- Conclusion -- The Conquest of Will: Information Processing in Human Affairs -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I. Historical Perspectives -- Chapter 1. Technology in Western Culture -- 1. Technology and the Contemporary Scene -- 2. Social History of Technology -- 3. Social and Cultural Origins of the Machine Age -- 4. Some Consequences of the Mechanistic Mentality -- 5. Summary -- Chapter 2. Computing in History -- 1. Mechanization of Arithmetic: I. Exploration and Growth -- 2. Mechanization of Arithmetic: II. Government Record Keeping -- 3. Automation of Control -- 4, Synthesis -- 5. Consolidation before Revolution -- 6. The Birth of the Computer -- Chapter 3. Computer Utilization -- 2. Social Investment in Computer Applications -- 3. "]
[{"$nulls":4},"General Features of the Computer Industry -- 5. Politics of Computers -- Chapter 4. Information Processing in Corporate Decision-Making -- 1. Information Processing in Management -- 2. Effects of Automation on Managers -- 3. The Corporate Computer Facility -- 4. Hierarchy as an Organizational Principle -- 5. Centralization of Control -- Chapter 5. The Changing Character of Work -- 1. Responses to Technological Change."]
[{"$nulls":4},"2. Automation and the Work Environment -- 3. Effects of Automation on Employment -- 4. The Role of Work in Contemporary Society -- Chapter 6. Education and the Growth of Knowledge -- 1. Computers and the Aims of Education -- 2. Some Innovative Systems -- 3. Prospects for Computer-Assisted Instruction -- 4. Computers in Research -- Chapter 7. Computers in Health-Care -- 1.   Information Systems in Health-Care -- 2. Computers in Diagnosis and Treatment -- 3. The Changing Character of Medical Practice -- 4. Delivery of Health-Care Services -- 5. Computers, Health, and the Public Interest -- Part III. Challenge: Control of Disorder -- Chapter 8, Computer Utilities -- 2. Computer Network Development -- 4. The Coming Financial Computer Utility -- Chapter 9. Privacy and Surveillance -- 1. Forms of Surveillance -- 2. Public and Private -- 3. Privacy in a Pluralistic Society -- 4. Formal Mechanisms for Protecting Privacy -- 5. On the Efficacy of Formal Safeguards -- Chapter 10. Information and the Political Process -- 7. Databanks: Distribution and Variety -- 2. Databanks: Expected Contributions -- 4. Planning in a Democracy -- 5. Computers and Political Power -- Chapter 11. Systems Analysis and Political Decision-Making -- 1. Methods of the Information Age -- 2. Traditional Methods and the Systems Approach -- 1. Modeling Social Systems -- 2. Systems Analysis and the Public Interest -- Chapter 12. Information, Power and Complexity -- 2. Information, Choice and Structure -- 5. The Myth of Complexity -- Part IV. Identity and Uncertainty: The Machine as Mirror Image -- Chapter 13. Man-Machine Interaction -- 1. The Human Meaning of Mechanization -- 2. The Man-Machine Dichotomy -- 3. Symbiosis or Parasitism -- 4. Popular Attitudes Toward Computers -- 5. The Moral Imperative -- Chapter 14. Machine Intelligence and Human Identity -- 1. Computers and Intelligence."]
[{"$nulls":4},"2. The Uses of Intelligent Machines -- 3. Models of Human Behavior -- 1. Some Consequences of Reductionism -- 2. Identity and Conduct -- Chapter 15. Literary Perspectives on the Machine -- 1. The Problematic Machine -- 2. Abundance and Freedom from Toil -- 3. Control of Behavior -- 4. Challenge to the Gods -- 5. The Conquest of Will -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Almost fifty years ago, the author wrote the first comprehensive critical study of social issues in computing, The Conquest of Will (1976). This new book revisits this seminal study, featuring an overview of technological advances over the past half century, and provides a unique comparison between what was believed and expected of computers back in 1976, and actual outcomes up to the present time. Despite the extraordinary changes in technology, much of what has emerged in contemporary society was anticipated fifty years ago, and we are still grappling with some of the same basic challenges. For example, the computer's threat to privacy has been a constant issue ever since the late 1950s, but the regulatory framework designed in the 1960s has been upended by the Internet. Artificial Intelligence too has been a contentious issue since the late 1950s, but until recently discussion was largely confined to academia, and there was little urgency to regulate its further development and application. The "]
[{"$nulls":4},"comparisons offered in this book will highlight what we got right and wrong in the past, and point to the sources of good and bad predictions. While there have been many studies of social issues in computing published since The Conquest of Will appeared in 1976, this is an unusual and valuable longitudinal comparison of the current situation with what prevailed and was predicted half a century ago."]
[null,"2.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910973869203321"]
[null,null,"Autore",null,"Gillespie Andra"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Race and the Obama Administration : Substance, symbols and hope / / Andra Gillespie"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2019]"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2019"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9781526105035"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1526105039"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9781526155177"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1526155176"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) : illustrations"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"973.932"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Relations interethniques - États-Unis - 21e siecle"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Noirs américains - Conditions economiques - 21e siecle"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Noirs américains - Conditions sociales - 21e siecle"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Politique et gouvernement - États-Unis - 2009-2017"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Bibliogr. p. 208-230. Index."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-230) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: My president was black So what? -- The triple bind -- How he did: The racial successes, failures, and impact of the Obama presidency -- Was Obama a paddling duck?: Seven vignettes of substantive politics in the Obama Administration -- The right person saying the right thing: Descriptive representation and rhetoric in the Obama Administration -- The political power of symbolic representation: Artistic performances and commencement speeches from... -- The substance of hope: Public opinion and black attitudes toward the Obama presidency -- Conclusion: Was it worth it? -- Epilogue: Considering the Obama legacy in the age of Trump -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","\"The election of Barack Obama marked a critical point in American political and social history. Did the historic election of a black president actually change the status of blacks in the United States? Did these changes (or lack thereof) inform blacks' perceptions of the President? This book explores these questions by comparing Obama's promotion of substantive and symbolic initiatives for blacks to efforts by the two "]
[{"$nulls":4},"previous presidential administrations. By employing a comparative analysis, the reader can judge whether Obama did more or less to promote black interests than his predecessors. Taking a more empirical approach to judging Barack Obama, this book hopes to contribute to current debates about the significance of the first African American presidency. It takes care to make distinctions between Obama's substantive and symbolic accomplishments and to explore the significance of both\" (ed.)."]