Localizing the Internet
Subtitle: ethical aspects in intercultural perspective
By: Rafael Capurro, Johannes Frühbauer, Thomas Hausmanninger (eds.).
Contributors: Capurro, Rafael, 1945-.; Fruhbauer, Johannes, 1967-.; Hausmanninger, Thomas.; International Center for Information Ethics.
Series: Schriftenreihe des International Center for Information Ethics -- Bd. 4
Publisher: Wilhelm Fink
Published: 2007
Place of publication: München
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9783770542000
Subjects: Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.; Internet -- Social aspects -- Congresses.; Internet -- Political aspects -- Congresses.; Internet -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.; Intercultural communication -- Congresses.; Culture and globalization -- Congresses.; Information technology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: A selection of papers from the international symposium organized by the International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE) in October 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-363).
Table of contents: value: Intercultural information ethics / Rafael Capurro; value: Allowing for difference : some preliminary remarks concerning intercultural information ethics / Thomas Hausmanniger; value: Foucault, Deleuze, and the ethics of digital networks / Bernd Frohmann; value: Globalization and information ethics / Lü Yao-Huai; value: Digital governance models : towards empowerment and good governance in developing countries / Vikas Nath; value: Virtual strangers : on the social and ethical conditions of virtual communities / Lucas D. Introna; value: Laissez-faire or regulation? Social and policy implications of IP telephony / Richard A. Spinello; value: Gendered views on the ethics of computer professionals / Britta Schinzel; value: The Internet and community building at the local and global levels : some implications and challenges / Frances S. Grodzinsky, Herman T. Tavani; value: Can the local reshape the global? Ethical imperatives for humane intercultural communication online / Charles Ess; value: ^"New technologies" and "ancient Africa" : the impact of new information and communication technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa / Willy Jackson, Issiaka Mandé; value: The Internet within Seken as old and indigenous world of meaning in Japan : the interrelationship between Seken, Shakai, and the Internet in Japan / Makoto Nakada; value: At the boundaries of ethics and cultures : virtual community as an open ended process carrying the will for social change / Daniel Pimienta; value: Collective construction of identity in Internet : ethical dimension and intercultural perspective / Hugo Alberto Figueroa Alcántara; value: Internet and free networks : from world-networking to place-networking / Wolfgang Sützl; value: The Internet : the missing link between the information rich and the information poor? / Johannes Britz; value: On sharing ideas and expressions in global communities / Wolfgang Coy; value: The Internet, information machines, and the technologies of the self / Fernando Elichirigoity; value: ^A toolkit to empower communities in Latin America / Susana Finquelievich; value: Fruit, water, and philosophy : intercultural perspectives on the Internet : a report on working groups' discussions at the international symposium Localizing the Internet : ethical issues in intercultural perspective / Rafael Capurro, Rupert M. Scheule.