Information technology and social justice
Title:
Information technology and social justice
Author:
Rooksby, Emma.
ISBN:
9781591409700
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2007.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (xvii, 292 p.) : digital files.
Contents:
1. From information society to global village of wisdom? : the role of ICT in realizing social justice in the developing world / Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten -- 2. Epistemic value theory and the digital divide / Don Fallis -- 3. Justifying intellectual property protection : why the interests of content creators usually win over everyone else's / Kenneth Einar Himma -- 4. Universal information ethics? : ethical pluralism and social justice / Charles Ess -- 5. Global digital divide, global justice, cultures and epistemology / Soraj Hongladarom -- 6. Digital disempowerment / Kenneth L. Hacker, Shana M. Mason, Eric L. Morgan -- 7. Social justice and market metaphysics : a critical discussion of philosophical approaches to digital divides / Bernd Carsten Stahl -- 8. Discourses in gender and technology : taking a feminist gaze / Sheila French -- 9. Computing ethics : intercultural comparisons / Darryl Macer -- 10. 500 million missing Web sites : Amartya Sen's capabilities approach and measures of technological deprivation in developing countries / William Wresch -- 11. Computer ethics : constitutive and consequential morality / A. Raghuramaraju -- 12. The digital divide in Australia : is rural Australia losing out? / Emma Rooksby, John Weckert, Richard Lucas -- 13. The digital divide within the digital community in Saudi Arabia / Yeslam Al-Saggaf.
Abstract:
"This book presents conceptual frameworks for understanding and tackling digital divides. It includes information on access and skills, access and motivation, and other levels of access. It presents a detailed analysis of the and value of access to information and communication technologies"--Provided by publisher.
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Electronic Access:
Chapter PDFs via platform: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-59140-968-7