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The Ethics of Cyberspace

Authors: Cees Hamelink Publisher: SAGE Publications Publication date: 2000 Publication language: Angielski Number of pages: 225 Publication formats: EAN: 9781849202411 ISBN: 9781849202411 Category: Media studies Publisher's index: - Bibliographic note: Dr. Cees J. Hamelink is Emeritus Professor of International Communication at the University of Amsterdam. He is also currently Professor for Information Management at the University of Aruba, and Professor of Human Rights and Public Health at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.

He is the editor-in-chief of the International Communication Gazette and Honorary President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). He is author of 17 monographs on communication, culture, and human rights. His latest book is a textbook on Global Communication (SAGE, 2015).

Professor Hamelink received life-time achievements awards from various international organisations and has been consultant to many national governments and agencies in the UN system.

Description

In this book, Cees J Hamelink proposes an answer to - how should democratic societies organize cyberspace? - that puts human-rights, rather than profit, at the top of the agenda. He argues that conventional ethical approaches are all seriously flawed. There is a growing volume of moral rules, netiquettes and codes of conduct, but they are of little help in solving the moral dilemmas raised by the new technologies. In this book the author analyzes the inadeqacies of current global governance policies and structures that underpin them, and argues for standards which put justice, human security and freedom first.


TOC

  • Cover 2
  • Copyright 6
  • Contents 7
  • Preface 11
  • Prometheus In CyberSpace 15
  • Morality In CyberSpace 46
  • The Decent Society and CyberSpace 69
  • Equal Entitlement in CyberSpace 93
  • Digital Risks and Security in CyberSpace 121
  • Free Speech and Knowledge in CyberSpace 153
  • The Democratization of Technology Choice 179
  • Bibliography 200
  • Index 217