Computer Integrity Crime
DavidS. Wall · 2017
Information technology is an arena of rapid change where much is unsettled. The technology itself has evolved at a striking pace and, in its wake, affects individual lives, societies, and political, social, and economic institutions. Moreover, as a series of public struggles over design and policy has demonstrated, these agents are far from unanimous regarding the way in which they would judge and shape these social and technological changes. People, communities, and institutions jostle to promote their own visions, controversial policies, competing technologies, and technological standards, seeking the dominance of their own interests and values over others. Much of the contestation is explicit, public, and vocal: the fate of Napster, the digital divide, the promise (or lack) of proposed technical standards (e.g. platform for privacy preferences - P3P; and platform for internet content selection - PICS), the fair allocation of domain names, and much more.