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Robert W. Kling's Degrees
- PhD Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine
- Masters Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine
- Bachelors Computer Science University of California, Irvine
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Published Works
- Reconceptualizing Users as Social Actors in Information Systems Research (2003) (859)
- Social Analyses of Computing: Theoretical Perspectives in Recent Empirical Research (1980) (846)
- The Web of Computing: Computer Technology as Social Organization (1982) (715)
- What Is Social Informatics and Why Does It Matter? (2007) (572)
- Students' Frustrations with a Web-Based Distance Education Course (1999) (513)
- Does technology drive history? The dilemma of technological determinism (1996) (495)
- Learning About Information Technologies and Social Change: The Contribution of Social Informatics (2000) (466)
- Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning: COMING TO TERMS WITH COMMUNITY (2004) (391)
- Not just a matter of time: Field differences and the shaping of electronic media in supporting scientific communication (1999) (386)
- Students’ Distress with a Web-based Distance Education Course: An Ethnographic Study of Participants' Experiences (2003) (385)
- Book Review: Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices (1991) (341)
- The control of information systems developments after implementation (1984) (300)
- Cooperation, coordination and control in computer-supported work (1991) (292)
- a Bit More to It: Scholarly Communication Forums as Socio-technical Interaction Networks (2003) (277)
- Defining the boundaries of computing across complex organizations (1987) (268)
- IT and organizational change in digital economies: a socio-technical approach (1999) (236)
- Group Behavior and Learning in Electronic Forums: A Sociotechnical Approach (2003) (227)
- Computers and Politics: High Technology in American Local Governments (1982) (221)
- Computerization and Controversy (1997) (202)
- Computerization and Social Transformations (1991) (196)
- The Institutional Character of Computerized Information Systems (1989) (194)
- Scholarly Communication and the Continuum of Electronic Publishing (1999) (191)
- The Mobilization of Support for Computerization: The Role of Computerization Movements (1988) (163)
- Electronic journals, the Internet, and scholarly communication (2005) (141)
- Computing as an Occasion for Social Control. (1984) (111)
- Human centered systems in the perspective of organizational and social informatics (1998) (106)
- Automated welfare client-tracking and service integration: the political economy of computing (1978) (105)
- Electronic Journals and Legitimate Media in the Systems of Scholarly Communication (1995) (103)
- The organizational context of user-centered software designs* (1977) (100)
- Computerization Movements: The Rise of the Internet and Distant Forms of Work (2001) (100)
- Reading "All About" Computerization: How Genre Conventions Shape Nonfiction Social Analysis (1994) (96)
- Computing as Social Action: The Social Dynamics of Computing in Complex Organizations (1980) (95)
- Patterns Of Segmentation And Intersection In The Computing World (1978) (95)
- Behind the Terminal: The Critical Role of Computing Infrastructure In Effective Information Systems' Development and Use (1992) (94)
- Organizational Dimensions of Effective Digital Library Use: Closed Rational and Open Natural Systems Models (1996) (91)
- Audiences, Narratives, and Human Values in Social Studies of Technology (1992) (86)
- The social dynamics of technical innovation in the computing world (1977) (85)
- Digital library design for organizational usability (1994) (76)
- Social Relationships in Electronic Forums: Hangouts, Salons, Workplaces, and Communities (1995) (76)
- Organizational Analysis in Computer Science (1993) (74)
- Informational Environments: Organizational Contexts of Online Information Use (2003) (74)
- Anonymous Communication Policies for the Internet: Results and Recommendations of the AAAS Conference (1999) (73)
- Locally controlled scholarly publishing via the internet: The guild model (2002) (72)
- The Dynamics of Computerization in a Social Science Research Team: A Case Study of Infrastructure, Strategies, and Skills (1991) (71)
- Hopes and Horrors: Technological Utopianism and Anti-Utopianism in Narratives of Computerization (1995) (69)
- Assessing Anonymous Communication on the Internet: Policy Deliberations (1999) (69)
- Social Informatics in Information Science: An Introduction (1998) (67)
- Can the "Next Generation Internet" Effectively Support "Ordinary Citizens"? (1999) (65)
- Value conflicts and social choice in electronic funds transfer system developments (1978) (63)
- The internet and unrefereed scholarly publishing (2005) (63)
- Organizational usability of digital libraries: case study of legal research in civil and criminal courts (1997) (61)
- The Double Public Good: A Conceptual Framework for ``Shared Experience'' Values Associated with Heritage Conservation (2001) (60)
- Computerization Movements and Tales of Technological Utopianism (1995) (60)
- Learning in context: Extensively computerized work groups as communities-of-practice (1995) (59)
- The Social Design of Worklife with Computers and Networks: A Natural Systems Perspective (1994) (54)
- Social Informatics: A New Perspective on Social Research about Information and Communication Technologies (2000) (54)
- The real stakes of virtual publishing: The transformation of E-Biomed into PubMed central (2004) (54)
- Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics: A Framework for Studying and Teaching the Human Contexts of Information and Communication Technologies (2005) (53)
- Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning: Group Behavior and Learning in Electronic Forums (2004) (49)
- Transforming Coordination: The Promise and Problems of Information Technology in Coordination (1996) (48)
- The Social Design of Worklife With Computers and Networks: An Open Natural Systems Perspective (1994) (48)
- Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning: Titles in the series (2004) (48)
- Computers and social power (1974) (48)
- Learning from Social Informatics: Information and Communication Technologies in Human Contexts (2000) (47)
- Synergies and Competition Between Life in Cyberspace and Face-to-Face Communities (1996) (46)
- Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning: Introduction (2004) (45)
- Estimating the Public Good Value of Preserving a Local Historic Landmark: The Role of Non-substitutability and Citizen Information (2004) (44)
- Network Organizations: Symmetric Cooperation or Multivalent Negotiation? (2005) (44)
- A Social Informatics Perspective on Socio-Technical Networks (2000) (43)
- When Gunfire Shatters Bone: Reducing Sociotechnical Systems to Social Relationships (1992) (40)
- Computerization and controversy (2nd ed.): value conflicts and social choices (1995) (40)
- Estimating rates of substitution for protecting values at risk for initial attack planning and budgeting (2008) (36)
- More Information, Better Jobs?: Occupational Stratification and Labor-Market Segmentation in the United States' information (1990) (36)
- Recurrent dilemmas of computer use in complex organizations (1899) (34)
- Computerization at Work (1995) (34)
- Computer abuse and computer crime as organizational activities (1981) (33)
- Value Conflicts in Computing Developments: Developed and Developing Countries. (1983) (33)
- Scientific Collaboratories as Socio-Technical Interaction Networks: A Theoretical Approach (2000) (32)
- Controversies about Computerization and the Character of White Collar Worklife (1993) (31)
- Information systems in policy making: Computer technology and organizational arrangements (1978) (30)
- Electronic Journals and Legitimate Media in the Systems of Scholarly Communication [1995, rptd. 2008] (1996) (30)
- Value conflicts and social choice in electronic funds transfer system developments (1981) (29)
- Communities of practice with and without information technology (2005) (29)
- Towards a person-centered computer technology (1973) (29)
- Automated information systems as social resources in policy making (1978) (29)
- Critical professional education about information and communications technologies and social life (2003) (28)
- The impacts of computing on the work of managers, data analysts and clerks (1978) (27)
- Analyzing alternate visions of electronic publishing and digital libraries (1996) (26)
- A future cities survey research design for policy analysis (1976) (25)
- The Political Character of Computerization in Service Organizations: Citizen Interests or Bureaucratic Control (1983) (25)
- IT Supports for Communities of Practice: An Empirically-based Framework (2002) (25)
- Can Computer Science Solve Organizational Problems? The Case for Organizational Informatics (1995) (24)
- Computer Systems as Institutions: Social Dimensions of Computing in Organizations (1988) (24)
- DEREGULATION AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN THE LTL MOTOR FREIGHT INDUSTRY (1990) (24)
- Information Systems in Manufacturing Coordination: Economic and Social Perspectives (1992) (24)
- Assimilating social values in computer-based technologies (1984) (21)
- Four Paradigms of Information Systems (1989) (20)
- Computerization, Office Routines, and Changes in Clerical Work (1991) (20)
- Students’ difficulties in a Web-based distance education course : An ethnographic study (2005) (19)
- Information Technologies and the Shifting Balance between Privacy and Social Control (1995) (19)
- Value conflicts in the deployment of computing applications (1984) (19)
- Desktop computerization and the organization of work (1989) (19)
- Being read in cyberspace: Boutique and mass media markets, intermediation, and the costs of on‐line services (1996) (19)
- Implementing desktop computing, infrastructure, and quality of worklife (1989) (17)
- The DoD common high order programming language effort (DoD-1): what will the impacts be? (1979) (17)
- Building An Institutionalist Theory of Regulation (1988) (17)
- POWER IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN LATE MODERN TIMES. (2003) (17)
- Scholarly Networks as Learning Communities (2004) (17)
- The Internet and the Velocity of Scholarly Journal Publishing (2002) (16)
- Technology, ideology and social transformation: The case of computerization and work organization (1994) (16)
- Beyond Outlaws, Hackers, and Pirates: Ethical Issues in the Work of Information and Computer Science Professionals (1995) (16)
- Security and reliability (1991) (16)
- From Users to Social Actors: Reconceptualizing Socially Rich Interaction Through Information and Communication Technology (2002) (15)
- The Centrality of Organizations in the Computerization of Society (1995) (15)
- A Case Study of Students' Frustrations with a Web-Based Distance Education (1999) (14)
- Rewards for Scholarly Communication (2015) (14)
- Controversies about privacy and open information in CSCW (1992) (14)
- Organizational usability of digital libraries in the courts (1996) (14)
- The Seductive Equation of Technological Progress with Social Progress (1995) (14)
- A BIT MORE TO IT : SCIENTIFIC MULTIPLE MEDIA COMMUNICATION FORUMS AS SOCIO-TECHNICAL INTERACTION NETWORKS (2000) (13)
- The work group manager's role in developing computing infrastructure (1990) (13)
- Social Controversies about Computerization (1991) (13)
- Letter from Rob Kling, Editor-in-Chief and Guest Editors Kenneth L. Kraemer and Jason Dedrick (2003) (12)
- Information and Computer Scientists as Moral Philosophers and Social Analysts (1995) (12)
- Desktop Computerization as a Continuing Process (1990) (12)
- Conceiving IT-Enabled Organizational Change (1998) (12)
- The social dynamics of instrumental computer use (1978) (12)
- The struggles for democracy in an information society (1986) (12)
- Automated welfare client-tracking and service integration : the case of Riverville (1977) (11)
- TRUCKING DEREGULATION : EVOLUTION OF A NEW POWER STRUCTURE (1988) (11)
- The Internet for Sociologists (1997) (11)
- The social dimensions of computerization (1987) (11)
- Leveling the playing field, or expanding the bleachers? Socio-Technical Interaction Networks and arXiv.org (2002) (11)
- The dreams of technological utopianism (1991) (11)
- Fair information practices with computer supported cooperative work (1993) (10)
- Computerization movements (1990) (10)
- Heads-Up versus Heads-In Views of Computer Systems (1996) (10)
- Beyond outlaws, hackers and pirates (1996) (10)
- Models for the social accountability of computing (1980) (10)
- Making a “computer revolution” (1991) (10)
- ESTIMATING THE PUBLIC GOOD VALUE OF PRESERVING A LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK : THE ROLE OF NON-SUBSTITUTABILITY AND INFORMATION IN CONTINGENT VALUATION (2001) (10)
- Material mastery: how university researchers use digital libraries for scholarly communication (1996) (10)
- Power Issues in Knowledge Management (2003) (10)
- Content and Pedagogy in Teaching About the Social Aspects of Computerization (1996) (10)
- Massively parallel computing and information capitalism (1993) (10)
- Bits of Cities: Utopian Visions and Social Power in Placed-Based and Electronic Communities (1996) (9)
- Valuing Technology: Organizations, Culture, and Change. By Janice McLaughlin, Paul Rosen, David Skinner, and Andrew Webster. London: Routledge, 1999. $100.00 (cloth); $33 (paper). (2001) (9)
- The new wave of computing in colleges and universities: a social analysis (1986) (9)
- Controversies about computerization and the organization of white collar work (1995) (9)
- EFTS social and technical issues: what are EFTS? (1976) (9)
- How Do Office Workers Learn About Computing (1992) (9)
- Six models for the social accountability of computing (1978) (8)
- Reply to Woolgar and Grint: A Preview (1991) (8)
- Computers as Tools and Social Systems: The Car-Computer Analogy (1995) (8)
- Learning about the Possible Futures of Computerization from the Present and the Past (1995) (8)
- Alternative EFT developments and the quality of life: A theoretical analysis (1979) (8)
- A Reader's Guide to Computerization and Controversy (1996) (8)
- Computerization Movements and the Mobilization of Support for Computing (1990) (8)
- Controversies About Electronic Journals and Scholarly Communications: An Introduction (1995) (8)
- Passing the digital buck : unresolved social and technical issues in electronic funds transfer systems (1976) (7)
- Digital Shift or Digital Drift? Dilemmas of Managing Digital Library Resources in North American Universities (1995) (7)
- A brief introduction to social informatics (1998) (7)
- A Typology for Electronic-Journals: Characterizing Scholarly Journals by their Distribution Forms (1997) (7)
- Professional Development & Knowledge Management via Virtual Spaces (2006) (7)
- Systems Safety, Normal Accidents, and Social Vulnerability (1995) (7)
- Information systems, social transformations, and quality of life (1990) (7)
- Computerization and the transformation of work (1991) (7)
- Reading "all about" computerization: five common genres of social analysis (1990) (6)
- CSCW—what does it mean? (Panel Session) (1988) (6)
- Value conflicts in the design and organization of EFT systems (1991) (6)
- Social relationships in electronic communities (1991) (6)
- The Research Divide: Internet Commons, Scholarly Participation and Pre-print Servers * (2000) (6)
- Information Entrepreneurialism, Information Technologies, and the Continuing Vulnerability of Privacy (1995) (6)
- Digital Library Design for Usability (2016) (6)
- Office routine: The automated pink collar: Secretaries and clerks are often enthusiastic about new technologies, until they discover that shortsighted managers use the new tools to isoiate them further (1984) (5)
- From Retrieval to Communication: The Development, Use, and Consequences of Digital Documentary Systems (1999) (5)
- Digital Libraries and the Practices of Scholarly Communication (1997) (4)
- Characterizing Collective Behavior Online: The Social Organization of Hangouts, Clubs, Associations, Teams and Communities (2003) (4)
- Organizational informatics in computer science (1993) (4)
- Information Technologies and the Strategic Reconfiguration of Libraries in Communication Networks (2000) (4)
- Integrating the ethical and social context of computing into the computer science curriculum (1996) (4)
- Sustaining New Coordination Methods: The Case of World Class Manufacturing (1998) (4)
- Informatics and Distributed Learning (2002) (4)
- University of California Irvine Public Policy Research Organization - The Politics of Efficiency The Mobilization of Computing in Organizations (1984) (4)
- How Coordination Process Influence CIM Development (1993) (4)
- Value conflicts in public-oriented computing developments (1984) (4)
- The Remarkable Transformation of E-Biomed into PubMed Central (2001) (4)
- What Makes the History of Software Hard (2008) (4)
- Ethical perspectives and professional responsibilities (1991) (4)
- SIGCAS' crisis and its role in advancing social analysis in computer science (1994) (4)
- Visions of IT: The Implementation of IT-Enabled Organizational Change (1995) (3)
- Automating a service bureaucracy : the Riverville social services information and referral system (1977) (3)
- Digital Library use in social context (1995) (3)
- Passing the digital buck (1980) (3)
- Hedonic Valuation of Land Protection Methods in the Rural-Urban Fringe: Implications for Cluster Development (2007) (3)
- AS SOCIO-TECHNICAL INTERACTION NETWORKS (2000) (3)
- Does Technology Drive History?: The Dilemma of Technological Determinism, by Smith and Marx (1996) (3)
- Notes on the social impacts of artificial intelligence (1973) (3)
- Critical Professional Discourses About Information and Communications Technologies and Social Life in the U.S (2002) (3)
- Economic and organizational dimensions of computerization (1991) (3)
- Theoretical perspectives in social analyses of computerization (1988) (1989) (3)
- Hedonic valuation of land protection methods: implications for cluster development (2015) (2)
- Automated information systems in public policymaking (1976) (2)
- Social Impacts of Computing Information Systems and Organizational Change (2)
- Research Articles in Scholarly Electronic Communication (2002) (2)
- The digital library use (DLU) project at UC Irvine (1993) (2)
- Electronic fund transfer systems and quality of life (1978) (2)
- Charting a new course: developing and implementing a curriculum for a Master's of Information Science degree (1997) (2)
- Ai dreams and discourse: science and engineering in tension (2003) (2)
- Online Information Resource Mediation of Interorganizational RelationshipsA Work-In-Progress Technical Research Synopsis (1995) (2)
- The Disciplinary Shaping of Internet Resources in Supporting Professional and Scholarly Communication: Should We Seek Best Practices and Standards? (1998) (2)
- Social issues and impacts of computing : a survey of North American research (1979) (2)
- Academic Rewards for Scholarly Research Communication via Electronic Publishing (2002) (2)
- Social control and privacy (1991) (2)
- The Political Character of Computing Developments: Citizens' interests and Government Services (1981) (1)
- Introduction to the EFT Symposium (1979) (1)
- When organizations are perpetrators: assumptions about computer abuse and computer crime (1991) (1)
- The effect of environmental constraints on individual economic behavior (1992) (1)
- Social choice and technical problems in electronic funds transfer systems (1977) (1)
- General Equilibrium Effects of Regulation (1989) (1)
- Bibliography on computerization and privacy (1993) (1)
- Usability versus computability: social analyses by computer scientists (1994) (1)
- The Social and Institutional Meanings of Electronic Funds Transfer Systems (1980) (1)
- Technology & Unequal Participation: Access to electronic working paper repositories and scholarly participation in elite scientific communities * (2000) (1)
- The new wave of computing in colleges and universities: a social analysis (1986) (1)
- Privacy and Accuracy Issues for Information Systems in the 1990s and Beyond (1993) (1)
- Organizational Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Study of Legal Research in Civil and Criminal Cours (1997) (1)
- Course syllabus & description: the micro-computer revolution (1982) (0)
- Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (1995) (0)
- Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (1996) (0)
- Conceptions of office automation (1985) (0)
- Information Society (1996) (0)
- Digital Shift or Digital Drift?: Conceptualizing Transitions From Paper Media to Electronic Publishing and Digital Libraries in North American Universities (1997) (0)
- Research opportunities in knowledge networking (panel session) (1999) (0)
- Book Reviews (1999) (0)
- Review of Social issues in computing by C. C. Gotlieb and A. Borodin. Academic Press 1973. (1974) (0)
- Alternatives in the workplace: beyond mechanization. (1985) (0)
- Truth in advertising in present and future generation computing (1984) (0)
- CORBA and HLA: Enabling Future Network-Centric Vehicle Systems? (2003) (0)
- 12-Hour Shift Schedules: A Case Study (1988) (0)
- Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (2000) (0)
- Course description: social issues and impacts of computing (1982) (0)
- Controversies about computerization and white collar worklife (1992) (0)
- Panel 10 Information Systems and Technology Programs: Meeting the Challenges of the New Millennium (1997) (0)
- Sex as contract: abortion and expanded choice. (1992) (0)
- Innovation Mosaic L3C (2012) (0)
- Review of "Freedom's Edge by Milton Wessel," Addison-Wesley, 1975 (1975) (0)
- based on an inappropriate monistic view of science. (1989) (0)
- Review of "The Computer in Our Society by Tom and Fae Logsdon," Anaheim Pub. Co., 1974, 267 pages (1975) (0)
- Computing people (1980) (0)
- Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (2002) (0)
- The impact and issues of the fifth generation: Ethical issues in new computing technologies (1984) (0)
- Information systems and technology programs: Meeting the challenges of the new millennium (1997) (0)
- Deborah G. Johnson and Helen Nissenbaum, eds., Computers, Ethics and Social Values, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995, vi + 714 pp., $44.00 (paper), ISBN 0-13-103110-4. (1999) (0)
- Public Access to the Internet, by Brian Kahin and James Keller (eds) (1997) (0)
- Robots and their impact on employment (1981) (0)
- Theoretical perspective in social analyses of computerization : an addendum (1988) (0)
- Panel on information and public policy (1975) (0)
- SIGCAS (Panel Session) (1976) (0)
- Putting it in Perspective: Different Disciplines' Approaches to Managing Technologically-Stimuated Change (1988) (0)
- Recent Advances in Environmental Economics (2004) (0)
- Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (2002) (0)
- Information systems and technology programs (panel session): meeting the challenges of the new millennium (1997) (0)
- Review of Rational Decision-Making in the Preservation of Cultural Property edited by N. S. Baer and R. Snickars (2003) (0)
- Panel 4: Artificial Intelligence and Business: What Are the Real Prospects? (1986) (0)
- Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning: In Memoriam (2004) (0)
- Book Reviews : Routine Decision- Making: The Future of Bureaucracy . Michael Inbar (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1981) 240 pp (1981) (0)
- CSC'84 theme day plenary sessions (1984) (0)
- How Coordination Process Influence CIM Development - eScholarship (1993) (0)
- Payoffs and dilemmas of automated text processing (1980) (0)
- Reading list for computing, organizations, society (1982) (0)
- The impact and issues of the fifth generation: Social and organization consequences of new generation technology (1984) (0)
- Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning: Preface and Acknowledgments (2004) (0)
- Virtual Communities: When Do They Succeed? (2006) (0)
- Panel 2 Research Opportunities in Knowledge Networking (1999) (0)
- Social Issues of IS: Reshaping Our Research Agenda for 2001? (1992) (0)
- Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (1995) (0)
- Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (1995) (0)
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