Editorial, ACM Computers and Society, September/December, 2005

Welcome to the combined September 2005 and December 2005 issues of ACM Computers and Society. In this issue Burmester, Henry and Kermes make a very welcome intervention into the debate on the important and problematic phenomenon, cyberstalking, outlining a cryptographic model for tracking cyberstalkers. Philip Brey makes a careful analysis of social and cultural benefits and harms of the Internet; this is a very useful discussion of an area which has all too often been characterized in terms of swings between utopia and dystopia. Finally, all readers will welcome the latest update of Herman Tavani's Cyberethics bibliography for 2005 which lists more than fifty works published since his last bibliography in 2003.

As always, we are keen to seek more submissions to Computers and Society. Our publishing policy is very ?broad church; the only criteria being that publications are of a suitable quality and will be of interest to our readers.

Alison Adam
Information Systems, Organisations and Society Research Centre
University of Salford
UK
a.e.adam@salford.ac.uk