Social Science Computer Review Vol. 14, No. 4 Winter, 1996 Creating a Democratic Public Sphere through Political Discussion: A Case Study of Abortion Conversation on the Internet / Steven M. Schneider The Political Economy of Online Education / G. David Garson Lost in Cyberspace? Virtual Learning and Higher Education / Mark A. Shields Users' Experiences with Qualitative Data Analysis Software: Neither Frankenstein's Monster nor Muse / Beverly A. Smith and Sharlene Hesse-Biber Reports and Communications A Preview of Programs for Ecological Inference / Gary King and Kenneth Benoit Assessing and Coping with Computer Anxiety in the Social Science Classroom / David Alexander Bowers, Jr. and Vicki Martin Bowers News and Notes / G. David Garson Software Reviews Criminology: An Introduction Using Microcase (3rd Ed.) / Kimberly A. McCabe Book Reviews Electronic Technology, Corporate Strategy, and World Transformation / Maurice Estabrooks (Reviewed by Mark R. Greer) The End of the Future: The Waning of the High-Tech World / Jean Gimpel (Reviewed by Joyce Tang) The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age / Allucquere Rosanne Stone (Reviewed by Robert F. Nideffer) The Gender - Technology Relationship: Contemporary Theory and Research / Keith Grant and Rosalind Gill (Reviewed by Gene Diaz) Politics on the Net / Bill Mann (Reviewed by Robert G. Brookshire) Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation / Edward Barrett and Marie Redmond (Reviewed by P. A. Dee Southard) Information Technology and Society: A Reader / Nick Heap, Ray Thomas, Geoff Einon, Robin Mason and Hughie Mackay (Reviewed by James W. Cassell)