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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461718803321

Autore

Cohen Julie E.

Titolo

Configuring the Networked Self / / Julie E. Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-280-57135-7

9786613600950

0-300-17793-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 337 pages)

Disciplina

342.08 58

Soggetti

Copyright and electronic data processing

Data protection - Law and legislation

Information networks - Law and legislation

Internet - Law and legislation - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Imagining the Networked Information Society -- 2. From the Virtual to the Ordinary: Networked Space, Networked Bodies, and the Play of Everyday Practice -- 3. Copyright, Creativity, and Cultural Progress -- 4. Decentering Creativity -- 5. Privacy, Autonomy, and Information -- 6. Reimagining Privacy -- 7. "Piracy," "Security," and Architectures of Control -- 8. Rethinking "Unauthorized Access" -- 9. The Structural Conditions of Human Flourishing -- 10. Conclusion: Putting Cultural Environmentalism into Practice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The legal and technical rules governing flows of information are out of balance, argues Julie E. Cohen in this original analysis of information law and policy. Flows of cultural and technical information are overly restricted, while flows of personal information often are not restricted at all. The author investigates the institutional forces shaping the emerging information society and the contradictions between those forces and the ways that people use information and information



technologies in their everyday lives. She then proposes legal principles to ensure that people have ample room for cultural and material participation as well as greater control over the boundary conditions that govern flows of information to, from, and about them.