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| Issue No 002 (C-G)
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| A different kind of war: Internet databases
and legal protection or how the strict intellectual property laws
of the West threaten the developing countries’ information commons |
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| by Maria Canellopoulou-Bottis |
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| Language: English |
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| abstract: This paper describes
intellectual property legislation in the European Union, the US
and the Draft Treaty on the legal protection of unoriginal databases,
usually available in the Internet. I argue that this type of legislation,
if enforced upon developing countries and countries in transition
through international ‘agreements’, could in effect... |
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| Models for Ethical Decision-Making for Use
in Teaching Information Ethics: Challenges for Educating Diverse
Information Professionals |
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| by Toni Carbo |
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| Language: English |
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| abstract: Teaching Information
Ethics to a very diverse group of graduate students working towards
careers as information professionals raises a number of challenges.
The students come from different disciplines and a wide range of
diverse educational, economic, social, and cultural backgrounds
and from several different countries.... |
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| Towards Emancipatory Use of a Medium: The
Wiki |
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| by Anja Ebersbach and Markus Glaser |
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| Language: English |
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| abstract: With the rapid growth
of the Internet in the 1990ies due to the WWW, many people’s hopes
were raised that the spirit of egality, the emancipatory power of
the medium then, would be brought to the masses. With the increasing
commercialization, the net became and is becoming more and more
a one-way medium for advertising.... |
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| Network and Everyday Life: Beyond “Local
Space”? |
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| by Josep Maria Esquirol |
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| Language: English |
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| abstract: After describing what
it is known as quotidianity – or everyday life- , the text focuses
on the way it is influenced by the Network, paying special attention
to the space-time experience. How does the Network flow determine
a new temporality? How does Cyberspace interact with the place?
To finish with, we comment on the opinion according to which Cyberspace
goes beyond the boundaries of what is local. |
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| Can religious belief systems influence technological
and social innovations? |
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| by Peter Fleissner |
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| Language: English |
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| abstract: As the author was not
satisfied with the explanatory power of economic theories, in particular
when they are applied to the rapid diffusion of the Internet and
Internet services, he tries to analyze cultural framework conditions
and processes involved that inspire inventions and innovative ideas
and speed up their diffusion. He offers a scheme of thought... |
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| Feminism and Intercultural Information Ethics |
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| by Thomas J. Froehlich |
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| Language: English |
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| abstract: Rafael Capurro calls
for an intercultural information ethics that radically challenges
its Eurocentric, Greek philosophical roots and grapples with and
validates cultural diversity. One of the voices that must be included
in this project is that of feminism, both within and outside of
Western culture. While there are a variety of feminist issues and... |
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| The ‘Faith’ factor in the Internet World |
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| by T V Gopal |
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| Language: English |
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| abstract: The author opines that
the most creative use of Information and Communications Technology
(ICT) in development may not entail computers, e-mail, or Internet
access, but rather the use of other computer-based technologies,
including embedded chips, satellite based information and so on
to better meet local needs. The solutions must be affordable.... |
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