Social Aspects of Computing

Electronic Frontier Foundation: Privacy

Founded in 1990 to protect civil liberties in the networked world. This section is on Privacy, including: Is your printer spying on you? - A paper about the US government's encoding of printer paper, and the implications this has on privacy.

The History of Computing

- This collection of materials relating to the history of computing is provided courtesy of the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.

Observatory of the Information Society

News and documents from UNESCO related to the "ethical, legal and societal challenges of the Information Society".

 ...see also the Issues section on the Censorship page for sites dealing with access to information and the Internet.

Center for Digital Democracy

Campaigning for an open broadband internet against the domination by large media corporations.

Pew Internet and American Life

Reports that explore the impact of the Internet on children, families and communities, the workplace, schools and civic life.

Truly a world wide web: globe going digital

A report from the Pew Global Attitudes Project on increasing computer & Internet usage.

Link to this page: http://www.richmond.ac.uk/s/1143.aspx