This paper provides a historical perspective of computing technology along with its evolutionary phases. It is a scientific endeavour to understand and further investigate the significant role played by human which leads to the development of innovative technologies. A comprehensive study of invention from personal to cooperative and then to social computing has been done and its impacts have been highlighted. This paper focuses on two aspects explicitly. The first part renders how cultural computing evolved as a technological paradigm. The second part explicates the interaction of culture and technology through dynamics of mind, to define cultural computing.

This paper attempts to give an insight into emerging ethical issues due to the increased usage of the Internet in our lives. We discuss three main theoretical approaches relating to the ethics involved in the information technology (IT) era: first, the use of IT as a tool; second, the use of social constructivist methods; and third, the approach of phenomenologists. Certain aspects of ethics and IT have been discussed based on a phenomenological approach and moral development. Further, ethical issues related to social networking sites are discussed. A plausible way to make the virtual world ethically responsive is collective responsibility which proposes that society has the power to influence but not control behavior in the virtual world.

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Our day-to-day needs are greatly dependent on information and communications technology (ICT)-as represented by the Internet. Knowledge about culture is no exception. This paper focuses on the availability of digital cultural information about India on the Web. We aim to answer three questions: How is Indian culture represented on the Web? How are Indian cultural heritage sites being used? Who is using the sites? The study also examines the usability of these sites, and whether they are maintained. Content, ranking, and users' age groups are the three criteria on which this analysis has been based.