Digital Freedom
How Much Can You Handle?- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2007
Summary
In Digital Freedom, N. D. Batra explores the tension between the boundlessness of the Internet and the boundaries of the marketplace, as well as the resulting impact on human expression, privacy, and social controls. Digital Freedom is an exploration of and meditation on the question: How much freedom does a person need? The question evokes Tolstoy's parable, 'How much land does a man need?' Is freedom an acquired taste, much like one's love for symphony orchestra? Or, is it a necessity? After all, civilizations in the past have produced monumental works in all fields of human endeavor without as much obsession with individual freedom as we have today. Digital Freedom explores these issues_including surveillance, intellectual property, and copyright_from the perspective of an evolutionary, self-organizing social system. This system both creates and assimilates innovations and, in the process, undergoes reorganization and renewal.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2007
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7425-5574-7
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7425-7702-2
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 265
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- 1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
- 2 Scanning Digital Horizons No access Pages 13 - 42
- 3 Changing View of Privacy No access Pages 43 - 76
- 4 Surveillance in Cyberspace No access Pages 77 - 122
- 5 How the Marketplace Shapes Creativity No access Pages 123 - 154
- 6 Free Expression in the Digital Age No access Pages 155 - 202
- 7 How Does the Ring of Freedom Sound to You? No access Pages 203 - 218
- Notes No access Pages 219 - 246
- Index No access Pages 247 - 264
- About the Author No access Pages 265 - 265





