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Peer reviewedDe Maeyer, Dirk – Internet Research, 1997
Examines the Internet's potential for becoming an information highway. Highlights include definitions of the information highway and the Internet; the infrastructure of an information highway; capacity; connectivity; simultaneity; network protocols; applications; interactivity; openness; mobility and remote access; universal access; affordable…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Security, Internet, Privacy
Peer reviewedHerring, Susan C. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 2002
This review of computer-mediated communication (CMC) on the Internet focuses on empirical research in noninstitutional and nonorganizational contexts. Highlights include modes of CMC; appropriate uses; social effects; effects on language and communication; freedom of expression; community; personal impacts; privacy; ethics; democracy;…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Community, Computer Mediated Communication, Democracy
Peer reviewedDoty, Philip – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 2001
Discussion of privacy focuses on digital environments and a more inclusive understanding of privacy. Highlights include legal and policy conceptions; legislation protecting privacy; relevant Supreme Court cases; torts and privacy; European and other efforts; surveillance and social control; information entrepreneurialism; Jurgen Habermas; free…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Entrepreneurship, Federal Legislation, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedRobbin, Alice – Journal of Government Information, 2001
Chronicles public opinion, politics, and law and policy on privacy and confidentiality and their consequences for access by the social research community to government administrative and statistical records. Discusses the political environment, the decennial census long form, media coverage, and fears about the accumulation of personal information…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Confidential Records, Government Publications, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedRussell, Marie; Brittain, J. Michael – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 2002
Identifies current trends and issues in health informatics with examples of applications, particularly in English-speaking countries. Topics include health systems, professionals, and patients; consumer health information; electronic medical records; nursing; privacy and confidentiality; finding and using information; the Internet; e-mail;…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Futures (of Society), Health Personnel, Health Services
Peer reviewedKerr, Stephen T. – Machine-Mediated Learning, 1985
Describes videotex development; discusses optimal internal organization, visual display, and presentation of information on videotex screen; addresses policy issues of equity, privacy, and costs that affect instructional use of videotex; outlines videotex field trials and experiments within education; and draws conclusions on significance of…
Descriptors: Color, Computer Graphics, Costs, Databases
Gordon, Mark L.; McKenzie, Diana J. P. – Illinois Libraries, 1994
Discusses the development of a national information superhighway. Highlights include the National Information Infrastructure; NREN (National Research and Education Network); private networks, including Prodigy; repositioning in the telecommunications industry, including telephone, cable, and entertainment companies; government regulations;…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Computer Networks, Copyrights, Economic Factors
Peer reviewedTwidale, Michael B.; Nichols, David M. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1998
Considers how research in collaborative technologies can inform research and development in library and information science. Topics include computer supported collaborative work; shared drawing; collaborative writing; MUDs; MOOs; workflow; World Wide Web; collaborative learning; computer mediated communication; ethnography; evaluation; remote…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Electronic Libraries, Ethnography, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedLogan, Elisabeth; Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 2001
Reviews major aspects of library and information science education during the decade of the 1990s. Topics include historical context; the political climate; copyright, access, and privacy; the social climate; technological context; economic context; changes in administration, the profession, programs, curriculum, and faculty; and future…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Administrative Change, Copyrights, Curriculum
Download full textDrobnicki, John A. – 1992
Many activities that take place in the library, including circulation and interlibrary loan and reserve requests, result in the creation of records linking clients to specific kinds of information. Several groups, including law enforcement officials, have attempted on various occasions to gain access to these records. This research paper provides…
Descriptors: Confidential Records, Confidentiality, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Peer reviewedRobinson, John H.; Pieronek, Catherine – Journal of College and University Law, 1996
The review of 1994 judicial pronouncements on the law of higher education reports on and discusses cases addressing the First Amendment, invasion of privacy, tort liability, immunities, civil procedure, access to records and meetings, funding, employment, disciplinary decision, discrimination against students, intercollegiate athletics, and…
Descriptors: College Athletics, College Students, Confidential Records, Constitutional Law
Peer reviewedHernon, Peter; McClure, Charles R. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1993
Provides an overview of U.S. federal information policy and its treatment of electronic information resources. Highlights include government publications; electronic government information; main providers of government information, including the Government Printing Office; the Freedom of Information Act; public access and use; information…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Copyrights, Databases
