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Computerization Movements and the Mobilization of Support for Computing

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The Information Society: Evolving Landscapes

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THERE is a major mobilization to foster computerization in many institutional sectors in the United States and Western Europe. Computerization is a social process for providing access to and support for computer equipment and computer-based services to be used in activities such as teaching, accounting, writing, designing circuits, financial payments, etc. Computerization entails social choices about the level of appropriate investment and control over equipment and expertise, as well as choices of equipment. Many organizations are adopting computing equipment much more rapidly than they understand how to organize positive forms of social life around it. However, the most fervent advocates of computerization see the actual pace of computerization in schools, offices, factories, and homes as slower than they wish [Papert, 1980; Yourdon, 1986; See also Kaplan, 1983].

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  1. Institut d’Informatique, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium

    Jacques Berleur

  2. Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Andrew Clement

  3. British Computer Society, London, UK

    Richard Sizer

  4. London Business School, London, UK

    Diane Whitehouse

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Kling, R., Iacono, S. (1990). Computerization Movements and the Mobilization of Support for Computing. In: Berleur, J., Clement, A., Sizer, R., Whitehouse, D. (eds) The Information Society: Evolving Landscapes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4328-9_4

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