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Information technology and social justice

Author: Emma Rooksby; John Weckert
Publisher: Hershey, PA : Information Science Pub., ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Emma Rooksby; John Weckert
ISBN: 1591409683 9781591409687 1591409691 9781591409694 1591409705 9781591409700
OCLC Number: 71329783
Description: xvii, 292 p. ; 26 cm.
Contents: From information society to global village of wisdom? The role of ICT in realizing social justice in the developing world / Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten --
Epistemic value theory and the digital divide / Don Fallis --
Justifying intellectual property protection : why the interests of content creators usually win over everyone else's / Kenneth Einar Himma --
Universal information ethics? Ethical pluralism and social justice / Charles Ess --
Global digital divide, global justice, cultures and epistemology / Soraj Hongladarom --
Digital disempowerment / Kenneth L. Hacker, Shana M. Mason, Eric L. Morgan --
Social justice and market metaphysics : a critical discussion of philosophical approaches to digital divides / Bernd Carsten Stahl --
Discourses in gender and technology : taking a feminist gaze / Sheila French --
Computing ethics : intercultural comparisons / Darryl Macer --
500 million missing web sites : Amartya Sen's capabilities approach and measures of technological deprivation in developing countries / William Wresch --
Computer ethics : constitutive and consequential morality / A. Raghuramaraju --
The digital divide in Australia : is rural Australia losing out? / Emma Rooksby, John Wechert, Richard Lucas --
The digital divide within the digital community in Saudi Arabia / Yeslam Al-Saggaf.
Responsibility: Emma Rooksby and John Weckert, [editors].
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"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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