The computing community is beginning to be collectively aware of the possible privacy issues in CSCW applications. Professionals who use CSCW can lose privacy.
Predictor: Kling, Rob
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Computer-Mediated Communication, Rob Kling, a professor at the University of California at Irvine, writes: ”CSCW [computer-supported cooperative work] refers to both special products (groupware), and to a social movement by computer scientists who want to provide better computer support for people, primarily professionals, to enhance the ease of collaborating. Researchers disagree about the definition of CSCW, but the current definitions focus on technology. I see CSCW as a conjunction of certain kinds of technologies, certain kinds of users (usually small self-directed professional teams), and a worldview which emphasizes convivial work relations … CSCW is the product of a particular computer-based social movement rather than simply a family of technologies … Electronic mail is the most popular of the CSCW technologies … The computing community is beginning to be collectively aware of the possible privacy issues in CSCW applications. Professionals who use CSCW can lose privacy…”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Privacy/Surveillance
Name of publication: Computer-Mediated Communication
Title, headline, chapter name: Fair Information Practices with Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1994/jun/cscw.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Butler, Lawrence