Liberating cyberspace : civil liberties, human rights and the Internet
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Liberating cyberspace : civil liberties, human rights and the Internet
Pluto Press in association with Liberty, 1999
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"Pluto Press in association with Liberty (National Council for Civil Liberties)"
Includes bibliographical notes and index
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Description
Does the exponential growth of the Internet really mark a revolution in human interaction and communication, providing truly democratic access to information and ideas? Or, compounded by a growing number of competing interests now arguing for the introduction of more rigorous controls, will the full potential of the Internet fail to be recognised?
Liberating Cyberspace is the first volume to assess the impact of the Internet on our basic civil rights. Addressing the key questions, contributors from Britain and the United States examine a range of topics, from copyright and encryption to free speech, privacy and freedom of information. A series of critical case studies considers the potential of the Internet for promoting international women's rights, its the role in the McLibel trial, and to what extent the Internet can or should create new copyright and property laws of its own.
Controversial and topical, Liberating Cyberspace sheds valuable new light on some of the fundamental issues of modern global communication.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART 1: Freedoms of Expression and Information, Privacy, and Copyright
1. Freedom of Expression: Censorship in Private Hands
Adam Newey (Index on Censorship)
2. Freedom of Information: An Electronic Window onto Government
Andrew Ecclestone (Campaign for Freedom of Information)
3. Liberty on the Line
Simon Davies (London School of Economics) & Ian Hosein
4. Cryptography and Democracy: Dilemmas of Freedom
Caspar Bowden (Scientists for Labour) & Yaman Akdeniz (University of Leeds)
5. Copyright, Civil Rights and the Internet
Nick Braithwaite (lawyer, Clifford Chance)
6. Copyright and the Internet
Charles Oppenheim (De Montfort University)
PART 2: Case Studies
7. European Policy on Regulation and Content on the Internet
Penny Campbell ( European Institute for the Media, Dusseldorf) and Emmanuelle Machet
8. Political Participation and the Internet
Cathy Bryan & James Tatam (both Informed Sources Intonational)
9. The Net Out Of Control - A New Moral Panic: Censorship and Sexuality, Angus Hamilton (lawyer)
10. AVIVA: The Women's International Listings Magazine On the Internet
Kate Burke (AVIVA)
11. Women and the Internet
Clem Herman (Soft Solution/Poptel)
12. Tinysex and Gender Troubles
Sherry Turkle (MIT)
13. The Governance of Cyberspace: Racism on the Internet
David Capitanchik (Aberdeen College) & Michael Whine (Board of Deputies of British Jews)
14. McSpotlight: Freedom of Speech and the Internet
Philip George (environmental campaigner)
15. Human Rights and the Internet
Conor Foley (Amnesty International)
Glossary of Internet Term
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"