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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Batra, N.D. (Narain Dass), 1937- Digital freedom. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2008 (OCoLC)651993035 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
N D Batra |
ISBN: | 0742555739 9780742555730 0742555747 9780742555747 |
OCLC Number: | 122423867 |
Description: | xii, 265 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Preface -- Introduction -- Scanning digital horizons -- Changing view of privacy -- Surveillance in cyberspace -- How the marketplace shapes creativity -- Free expression in the digital age -- How does the ring of freedom sound to you? -- Notes -- Index -- About the author. |
Responsibility: | N.D. Batra. |
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Abstract:
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.
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Recommended. * CHOICE, Vol. 45 No. 6 (February 2008) * Digital Freedom is a breath of fresh air in the debate over the Internet as salvation versus doom. N. D. Batra asks the right questions of the digital age by focusing on what it means to be human in a technology-driven global world. The book is highly accessible to people on all levels including neo-Luddites and Techno-utopians. -- Susan B. Barnes, Rochester Institute of Technology; author, Online Connections Read more...
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