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Information technology and social justice / Emma Rooksby and John Weckert, [editors]

Rooksby, Emma ; Weckert, John

IGI Global

Hershey, Pa : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2007

Online-Ressource(electronic texts (xvii, 292 p.))

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers

978-1-59140-970-0 ( : PDF); 1-59140-970-5 (Online)

978-1-59140-968-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-59140-968-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-59140-968-3 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe); 1-59140-969-1 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe); 978-1-59140-968-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe); 978-1-59140-969-4 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

OCoLC: 986500251 (aus SWB)     

Also available in print.

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.4018/978-1-59140-968-7

Rechteinformation und Access Status: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

HM851

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LOC-SH: Information technology; Social aspects ; Social justice ; Social justice ; Information technology -- Social aspects

"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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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