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**Learning about Information Technologies and Social Change: The
Contribution of Social Informatics
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS/articles/kling16(3).pdf
A very nice overview of social informatics, a research perspective and
program based on understanding technology in its social context.
**The Real Stakes of Virtual Publishing
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/csi/WP/wp01-03B.html
An interesting analysis of what happened to an online publishing
initiative, "E-Biomed", and what the implications are for the future of online
publishing.
**Website language stats
http://owa.benton.org/listserv/wa.exe?A2=ind0104&L=digitaldivide&D=1&T=0&O=D&F=l&S=&P=11879
Andy Carvin's analysis of speakers of a language to the number of Web pages
in a language
**The War in Afghanistan, by Noam Chomsky
http://www.zmag.org/lakdawalalec.htm
Chomsy's most recent piece on Afghanistan (dated Dec. 30) His lead argument
is that what is most important in evaluating the war is an assessment of what
could have been presumed to happen rather than what actually did. And since it
could have been presumed that US intervention would lead to millions of deaths,
than the war should be morally condemned, regardless of the fact that this
result didn't occur. (Does anybody else find this a rather strange argument?)
**Battling Islamic 'Puritans'
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-010202scholar.story
This piece describes the remarkable scholarship and activism of Khaled Abou
El Fadl, a professor of Islamic law at UCLA and a former supporter of radical
Islam. Abou El Fadl was born in Kuwait and grew up in both Kuwait and Egypt.
The article portrays him as a prolific author, a brilliant scholar of Islamic
law, and a courageous advocate and defender of women's rights, minority rights,
and animal rights (!).
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