As an IT professional, I am very interested in how IT changes people’s everyday life. As I started to do some research in this topic, I found it’s an interesting multi-discipline field.

I will list the resources I found in this field in this post. It will be a on-going effort and the list will continue to grow over time.

Organization

• International Development Research Center (IDRC): A Crown corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they face.
• Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR): The only research centre in a UK university exclusively dedicated to research on ethical and social issues in computing and ICT.
• International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE): An academic website on information ethics

 

Special Interest Group

• Computer and Society(SIGCAS)
• Computer and Human Interaction(SIGCHI)

Books:

• The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
• Culture of the Internet
• Computerization and Controversy, Second Edition: Value Conflicts and Social Choices
• Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
• Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization
• Disconnected: Haves and Have-Nots in the Information Age
• A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present
• Technologies of Freedom
• Computers, Ethics, and Society
• Social Impact of Computers
• The Age of Intelligent Machines

Journal:

• Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society(JICES)
• International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE)
• Science, Technology and Society (STS)
• International Journal of Technology and Human Interation
• Journal of Information Technology Impact
• Journal of Technology Transfer

Magazine:

• Technology Review

Conference/Workshop/Program:

• International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies(ETHICOMP)
• Culture Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication (CATaC)
• Human Choice and Computer (HCC)
• Internet Research and Information for Social Scientists (IRISS)
• Symposium on Computers and the Quality of Life(CQL)
• Fostering Research on the Economic and Social Impacts of Information Technology
• Information Technology and International Cooperation(ITIC)
• Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications and Social Impact(WITASI)

Education:

• ImpactCS: Define the core content and methodology for integrating social impact and ethics topics across the computer science curriculum

Blog:

• Brough Turner: Brough’s writings on the technology, economic and social issues of communications at the intersection of telecom, mobility and the Internet.

Internet Resources:

• Cyberethics