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Summary
The rush to the Information Superhighway and the transition to an Information Age have enormous political, ethical, and religious consequences. The essays collected here develop both interdisciplinary and international perspectives on privacy, critical thinking and literacy, democratization, gender, religion, and the very nature of the revolution promised in cyberspace. These essays are essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand and reflect upon these events and issues.
"The essays that make up this interesting book do a good job surveying some of the central philosophical, moral, and political issues involved in hypertext, networked communication, and other aspects of the new, and increasingly important, digital textuality." -- George Landow, Brown University
Charles Ess is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Drury College.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Thoughts along the I-Way: Philosophy and the Emergence of CMC
Charles Ess
I. Epistemology and Semiotics
1. Discourse across Links
David Kolb
2. Mediated Phosphor Dots: Toward a Post-Cartesian Model of CMC via the Semiotic Superhighway
Gary Shank and Donald Cunningham
II. Ethics, Gender, and Politics
3. Privacy, Respect for Persons, and Risk
Dag Elgesem
4. Pseudonyms, MailBots, and Virtual Letterheads: The Evolution of Computer-Mediated Ethics
Peter Danielson
5. Intellectual Property Futures: The Paper Club and the Digital Commons
John Lawrence
6. Posting in a Different Voice: Gender and Ethics in CMC
Susan Herring
7. "This Is Not Our Fathers' Pornography": Sex, Lies, and Computers
Carol J. Adams
8. Power Online: A Poststructuralist Perspective on CMC
Sunh-Hee Yoon
9. The Political Computer: Democracy, CMC, and Habermas
Charles Ess
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
Stephen D. O'Leary and Brenda E. Brasher
11. Sacred Text in the Sea of Texts: The Bible in North American Electronic Culture
