Configuring the networked self
Subtitle: law, code, and the play of everyday practice
By: Julie E. Cohen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780300125436
Subjects: Copyright and electronic data processing; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Social aspects; Law and legislation; Data protection; Internet; LAW / Intellectual Property / Copyright; LAW / Computer & Internet; LAW / Privacy; Information networks
Description: "The legal and technical rules governing flows of information are out of balance, argues Julie E. Cohen in this original analysis of information law and policy. Flows of cultural and technical information are overly restricted, while flows of personal information often are not restricted at all. The author investigates the institutional forces shaping the emerging information society and the contradictions between those forces and the ways that people use information and information technologies in their everyday lives. She then proposes legal principles to ensure that people have ample room for cultural and material participation as well as greater control over the boundary conditions that govern flows of information to, from, and about them"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : imagining the networked information society; title: From the virtual to the ordinary : networked space, networked bodies, and the play of everyday practice; title: Copyright, creativity, and cultural progress; title: Decentering creativity; title: Privacy, autonomy, and information; title: Reimagining privacy; title: Piracy, security, and architectures of control; title: Rethinking "unauthorized access"; title: The structural conditions of human flourishing.