Information technology and social justice
"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&quo...
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Hershey, Pa. :
IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA),
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Table of 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.