Information technology and social justice / Emma Rooksby and John Weckert, [editors].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
SECTION ONE: PHILOSOPHY AND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
CHAPTER 1: From Information Society to Global Village of Wisdom? The Role of ICT in Realizing Social Justice in the Developing World
Sirkku Hellsten
CHAPTER 2: Epistemic Value Theory and the Digital Divide
Don Fallis
CHAPTER 3: Justifying Intellectual Property Protection: Why the Interests of Content Creators Usually Win over Everyone Else¿s
Kenneth Himma
CHAPTER 4: Universal Information Ethics: Ethical Pluralism and Social Justice
Charles Ess
CHAPTER 5: Global Digital Divide, Global Justice, Cultures and Epistemology
Soraj Hongladarom
SECTION TWO: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
CHAPTER 6: Digital Disempowerment
Kenneth Hacker, Shana Mason and Eric Morgan
CHAPTER 7: Social Justice and Market Metaphysiscs: A Critical Discussion of Philosophical Approaches to Digital Divides
Bernd Carsten Stahl
CHAPTER 8: Discourses in Gender and Technology: Taking a Feminist Gaze
Sheila French
CHAPTER 9: Computing Ethics: Intercultural Comparisons
Darryl Macer
SECTION THREE: REGIONAL AND COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES
CHAPTER 10: 500 Million Missing Web Sites: Amartya Sen¿s Capabilities Approach and Measures of Technological Deprivation in Developing Countries
William Wresch
CHAPTER 11: Computer Ethics: Constitutive and Consequential Morality
A. Raghuramaraju
CHAPTER 12: The Digital Divide in Australia: Is Rural Australia Losing Out?
Emma Rooksby, John Wechert and Richard Lucas
CHAPTER 13: The Digital Divide within the Digital Community in Saudi Arabia
Yeslam Al-Saggaf

"This book presents conceptual frameworks for understanding and tackling digital divides. It includes information on access and skills, access and motivation, and other levels of access. It presents a detailed analysis of the and value of access to information and communication technologies"--Provided by publisher.