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Trust is an important feature for all users of the Internet who rely on the safety and security of network technologies and systems for their daily lives. Trust, or the lack of it, has also been identified by the European Commission's Digital Agenda as a major barrier to further development of the information society in Europe. One of the areas in which concerns have been raised is in relation to children's safety online. As a result, substantial efforts have been made by policymakers and by the industry to build greater trust and confidence in online digital safety. This paper examines what trust means in the context of children's use of the Internet. Should policy on trust enhancement, for instance, include children's own trust in the technologies or services they use or is it sufficient to seek to reinforce parental and adult confidence that children can be adequately protected? What is required to build that trust from either perspective? Does it need, or should it include a relationship of trust between parents and children? To tease out these questions further, the paper examines current European Union policy frameworks on digital safety, particularly industry responses to the call for a more trusted Internet environment for children, and argues that technical solutions to be effective need to carefully balance a number of competing objectives and to be sufficiently grounded in evidence of parental and child experience of the Internet.

The article describes the impact of the information society on the development and practice of the theory of statistics and the formation of its methodology. The most outstanding achievements of the social research of the 20th century as well as the development of statistics itself are brought into prominence; the interface of the theory of economics and the practice of statistics is defined. The methodological provision that the theory of social sciences and methods of statistics have to be organically interwoven in the process of statistical research as well as in the process of the development of applied and theoretical social sciences has been substantiated. The idea that the research of the methodology of statistics in Lithuania must be developed has been put forward. It has been pointed out that modern Lithuanian society expects and demands a lot from the statistical institutions of the country, it is therefore necessary to develop regional statistical research and to create the statistics related to the activities of public organizations and private enterprise. The major part of the society has to perceive that the level of its statistical culture is not very high and is not quite in line with the standards of the democratic civic society that is why a lot has to be learned and developed.

Nutzungsinteresse moderner Telekommunikationsmittel.

Themen: Interesse an und Nutzung von Satellitenprogrammen,
pay-tv Programmen, Teletext, Videotext, CD-ROM oder CD-i, PC,
Computer am Arbeitsplatz, Faxgerät, Fax-Modem, Mobiltelefon,
Internet und Onlinedienste wie Compuserve; Interesse an den
Dienstleistungen der Informationsgesellschaft wie z.B.
Teilnahme an politischen Debatten über ein
Kommunikationsnetzwerk, Teilnahme an Lehrgängen per Computer,
Datenbanknutzung von zu Hause aus, Nutzung kommunaler und
staatlicher Dienstleistungen, Nutzung von
Kommunikationsnetzwerken für die Auswahl und den Kauf von
Produkten, Einsichtnahme in ausländische Zeitungen und
Magazine, Nutzung elektronischer Medien zur Arbeitsplatzsuche,
Teilnahme an Gruppendiskussionen im beruflichen sowie privaten
Bereich, e-mail-Nutzung, Nutzung von elektronischen Spielen
mit Partnern auch im Ausland, private Kontoführung.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Technology, Computers, and Society -- The Industrial Society -- The Telephone and Society-A Case Study -- The Telephone Culture -- The Telephone and Social Organization -- Computers, Communications, and the Information Society -- The Global Network and the Ethos of the Information Society -- Information Society 2000 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- 2 A Brief History of Computers -- Charles Babbage and Computing Engines -- The First Electronic Computers -- Computer Generations -- Project Whirlwind, SAGE, and IBM System/360 -- Computer-Serviced Subcultures -- Minicomputers and the Personal Computer -- Fourth-Generation Languages and Software -- Supercomputers and the Fifth Generation -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- 3 Computer Culture -- Industrial Culture -- The Culture of Science -- The Human-Computer Interface and the Use of Information -- User Roles and Computer Environments -- Computer User Groups -- The Software Environment -- Computer Magazines -- Bulletin Boards and Information Services -- Electronic Mail and Online Conferences -- The Computer and the Arts -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- 4 Computers in Organizations -- Organizations in the Information Society -- Data and Information -- Information Systems and Organization Structure -- Designing Information Systems -- The Data Processing Department -- System Operation and Software Engineering -- The Information Center -- Information Resource Management -- Networks -- The Electronic Office -- System Security -- Innovation and Change -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- 5 Computers and Education -- Computers in Homes and Schools -- Computers and Learning in the University Environment -- Information Gateways -- New Models, New Metaphors, and New Methods.

This article analyses the information society developments in Turkey. Utilizing analytical insights of Foucault's governmentality to move beyond state-centric approaches and to focus on the practical, productive and imperfect operations of power, it identifies four main actors of governance through which the rationalities and practices of information society are developed and disseminated: the Justice and Development Party, the European Union, global development organizations and information society experts. The article demonstrates that despite their different and sometimes competing backgrounds and projections, each actor promoted neoliberal governmentality and maintained that Turkey's information society strategy should be regarded as an opportunity for further liberalizing the economy and mobilizing citizens of Turkey with digital and entrepreneurial skills. While Turkey's information society strategy has certain technical inefficiencies and limitations in its reach, it clearly demonstrates the political ambitions of integrating Turkey into global capitalism, and the contemporary governmental phase in Turkish modernity in which local and global actors have started playing important roles. Such decentralization of governance does not mean that authoritarianism in Turkey has ended. In fact, neoliberal rationalities have intersected with the existing authoritarian ones to produce globalized yet compliant citizens who are under digital surveillance. The case of Turkey demonstrates that rather than being a linear process, governmentality advances through complex local and global articulations and may coexist with authoritarianism and surveillance.