TY - JOUR
T1 - The information infrastructures of 1985 and 2018
T2 - The sociotechnical context of computer law & security
AU - Clarke, Roger
AU - Wigan, Marcus
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Roger Clarke and Marcus Wigan
PY - 2018/8
Y1 - 2018/8
N2 - This article identifies key features of the sociotechnical contexts of computer law and security at the times of this journal's establishment in 1985, and of its 200th Issue in 2018. The infrastructural elements of devices, communications, data and actuator technologies are considered first. Social actors as individuals, and in groups, communities, societies and polities, together with organisations and economies, are then interleaved with those technical elements. This provides a basis for appreciation of the very different challenges that confront us now in comparison with the early years of post-industrialism.
AB - This article identifies key features of the sociotechnical contexts of computer law and security at the times of this journal's establishment in 1985, and of its 200th Issue in 2018. The infrastructural elements of devices, communications, data and actuator technologies are considered first. Social actors as individuals, and in groups, communities, societies and polities, together with organisations and economies, are then interleaved with those technical elements. This provides a basis for appreciation of the very different challenges that confront us now in comparison with the early years of post-industrialism.
KW - Accountability
KW - Consumer rights
KW - Human rights
KW - Income distribution
KW - Infrastructural resilience
KW - Societal and political resilience
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U2 - 10.1016/j.clsr.2018.05.006
DO - 10.1016/j.clsr.2018.05.006
M3 - Article
SN - 0267-3649
VL - 34
SP - 677
EP - 700
JO - Computer Law and Security Review
JF - Computer Law and Security Review
IS - 4
ER -