Provided by the Computing Research Association (CRA), this report summarizes the conclusions of a workshop held jointly by CRA and the American Anthropological Society in June of 1995. "This workshop brought 33 social and computer scientists from government, industry and the academic community together to examine the dimensions of social impacts of the National Information Infrastructure (NII)." The report discusses "how social groups use, adapt and reinterpret technologies such as computing and digital telecommunications, often in ways not anticipated by those who design the systems or by those who create policies for their deployment and use." It also poses seven illustrative research questions on the topic.
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