Philosophical perspectives on computer-mediated communication /

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Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 319 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:SUNY series in computer-mediated communication
SUNY series in computer-mediated communication.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11102580
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Other authors / contributors:Ess, Charles, 1951-
ISBN:0585042829
9780585042824
0791428710
0791428729
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other form:Print version: Philosophical perspectives on computer-mediated communication. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996 0791428710
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Thoughts along the I-Way: Philosophy and the Emergence of CMC
  • I. Epistemology and Semiotics
  • 1. Discourse across Links
  • 2. Mediated Phosphor Dots: Toward a Post-Cartesian Model of CMC via the Semiotic Superhighway
  • II. Ethics, Gender, and Politics
  • 3. Privacy, Respect for Persons, and Risk
  • 4. Pseudonyms, MailBots, and Virtual Letterheads: The Evolution of Computer-Mediated Ethics
  • 5. Intellectual Property Futures: The Paper Club and the Digital Commons
  • 6. Posting in a Different Voice: Gender and Ethics in CMC
  • 7. "This Is Not Our Fathers' Pornography": Sex, Lies, and Computers
  • 8. Power Online: A Poststructuralist Perspective on CMC
  • 9. The Political Computer: Democracy, CMC, and Habermas
  • III. Impacts and Implications for Religious Authority, Communities, and Beliefs
  • 10. The Unknown God of the Internet: Religious Communication from the Ancient Agora to the Virtual Forum
  • 11. Sacred Text in the Sea of Texts: The Bible in North American Electronic Culture
  • Contributors
  • Index