On approaches to the study of social issues in computing
Communications of the ACMPublished 1 March 1981
Abbe Mowshowitz
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The analysis of positions documents the close relationship between research and policy formation and reveals the misleading and dangerous character of the presumption of scholarly objectivity in research on social issues.
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This paper identifies and analyzes technical and nontechnical biases in research on social issues in computing. Five positions— technicism, progressive individualism, elitism, pluralism, and radical criticism —which reflect major streams of contemporary social thought are examined. The analysis of positions documents the close relationship between research and policy formation and reveals the misleading and dangerous character of the presumption of scholarly objectivity in research on social issues.
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