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Computing and change on campus

Title
Computing and change on campus / edited by Sara Kiesler and Lee Sproull.
Publication
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Kiesler, Sara, 1940-
  • Sproull, Lee.
Description
x, 255 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.) > Carnegie-Mellon University
  • Computer-assisted instruction > United States > Case studies
  • Computer managed instruction > United States > Case studies
  • Education, Higher > United States > Data processing > Case studies
  • Computers > Social aspects > United States > Case studies
  • Computer-assisted instruction
  • Computer managed instruction
  • Computers > Social aspects
  • Education, Higher > Data processing
  • Computer
  • Computerunterstützter Unterricht
  • Datenverarbeitung
  • Hochschule
  • Technikbewertung
  • Hoger onderwijs
  • Computers
  • Sociale aspecten
  • Informatique > Aspect social > États-Unis
  • Enseignement assisté par ordinateur > États-Unis
  • Administration scolaire > Informatique > États-Unis
  • Enseignement supérieur > États-Unis > Informatique
  • United States
Genre/Form
Case studies.
Note
  • Includes indexes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 237-245.
Contents
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Thinking About the Social Process of Technological Change: 1. Computers and society Herbert A. Simon -- 2. Old colleges, new technology James G. March -- 3. The social process of technological change in organizations Sara Kiesler and Lee Sproull -- Part II. Components of Change: Resources, Behaviour, and Attitudes: 4. The computers are coming! Suzanne Penn Weisband and Jane Siegel -- 5. Electronic observations of computer user behaviour Mike Blackwell -- 6. Faculty and student observations of their computing behaviour Paul Anderson -- 7. What's news about computing? Suzanne Penn Weisband and Teresa Gardner -- Part III. Workers and Managers: 8. Secretaries and computers Karen Hartman -- 9. Automating a university library: some effects on work and workers Sara Kiesler, Scott Obrosky and Felicia Pratto -- 10. Instrumental and symbolic aspects of an executive information system Suzanne Penn Weisband -- Part IV. Students and the Social Environment of Computing: 11. Encountering an alien culture Lee Sproull, Sara Kiesler and David Zubrow -- 12. How computing attitudes change during the freshman year David Zubrow -- 13. Learning to like computing Lee Sproull and Tony O'Dea -- Part V. Conclusion: 14. General and practical implications Sara Kiesler and Lee Sproull -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.
ISBN
  • 052134431X
  • 9780521344319
LCCN
87012491
OCLC
  • ocm16078590
  • 16078590
  • SCSB-1175212
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library