Digital Freedom - How Much Can You Handle?

Informationen zum Autor By Narain D. Batra Klappentext In Digital Freedom, N. D. Batra explores the tension between the boundlessness of the Internet and the boundaries of the marketplace, as well as the resulting impact on human expression, privacy, and social controls. Batra's thought-provoking book looks at these issues-including surveillance, intellectual property, and copyright-from the perspective of an evolutionary, self-organizing social system. This system both creates and assimilates innovations and, in the process, undergoes reorganization and renewal. Above all, Digital Freedom is an exploration of and meditation on the question: How much freedom does a person need? Zusammenfassung Explores the tension between the boundlessness of the Internet and the boundaries of the marketplace! as well as the resulting impact on human expression! privacy! and social controls. This book looks at these issues including surveillance! intellectual property! and copyright from the perspective of an evolutionary! self-organizing social system. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 Scanning Digital Horizons Chapter 3 2 Changing View of Privacy Chapter 4 3 Surveillance in Cyberspace Chapter 5 4 How the Marketplace Shapes Creativity Chapter 6 5 Free Expression in the Digital Age Chapter 7 6 Conclusion

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• Authors: N. Batra, N. D. Batra, N.D. Batra, Narain D Batra, Narain D. Batra, Batra Narain D.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.2007
• EAN: 9780742555747
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5574-7
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Sociology & anthropology, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Sociology and anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies