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Dear colleagues,
ICIE book series No 4 "Localizing the Internet. Ethical aspects in
intercultural perspective" ed. Rafael Capurro, Johannes Frühbauer,
Thomas Hausmanniger, München, Fink Verlag, 2007, ISBN
978-3-7705-4200-0, 363 pages, price: 49,00 Euros is now available.
Thanks to all authors and potential readers for their patience!
As you remember, we published all papers presented at the ICIE
International Symposium held in October 2004 in IRIE except the papers
that are now printed in this book. We also printed the resumé of the
discussions during the meeting. I hope you enjoy them as well!
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The ongoing debate on the impact of the Internet at global and local
levels is at the core of today's and tomorrow's political
decision-making, particularly in a world that turns more and more
unified - and divided. It is also at the core of academic research on
what has been called Information Ethics. The leading ethical question
is how embodied human life is possible within local cultural traditions
and the horizon of a global digital environment. The book deals with
this question from four perspectives:
1. The Quest for Intercultural Information Ethics: This part addresses
problems of founding internet ethics in a global and culturally diverse
space. How is it possible to generate or find a more or less common
ethical basis? Can there be a universal normative framework or would
that be an affront against the cultural diversity? What does it mean,
to respect otherness and at the same time to be able to get together in
the net and solve unavoidable conflicts?
2. Internet for Social and Political Development: How many people with
different cultural backgrounds integrate the Internet in their lives?
This concerns in the first place community building. How far does the
Internet affect, for better or worse, local community building? How
far does it allow democratic consultation? How do people construct
their lives within this medium? How does it affect their customs.
languages, and everyday problems? The question about information
justice is thus not just an issue of giving everybody access to the
global network, but rather an issue on how the digital network helps
people to better manage thwir lives while avoiding the dangers of
exploitation and discrimination.
3. Internet for Cultural Development: "Culture" has received revived
attention in the last decade by scholars around the world - our lives
and identities are culturally grounded and the global interactions
certainly have quit an impact on our cultural development. Since
cultural imperialism cannot be an option, the question are, if and how
the local can reshape the global, and if and how the global may inspire
or further the local? What do technological innovations mean in
cultural terms? How do we construct identity in the net? Should we
further place-networking instead or accompanying world-networking?
4. Internet for Economic Development: Obviously there is a large
economic impact of the Internet. But is it a medium that helps people
to better opportunities for economic development? Or is it an
instrument of oppression and colonialism? What is the impact of this
technology on the environment? How does it affect what has been called
cultural memory or cultural sustainability?
The book offers internationally grounded perspectives on these issues,
focussing on Asia, Africa, Latin America, USA and Europe.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: The Promising Field of Intercultural Information Ethics
(Rafael Capurro) pp. 9-18
PART I
THE QUEST FOR INTERCULTURAL INFORMATION ETHICS
- Intercultural Information Ethics (Rafael Capurro) pp. 21-38
- Allowing for Difference. Some Preliminary Remarks concerning
Intercultural Information Ethics (Thomas Hausmanninger) pp. 39-56
- Foucault, Deleuze, and the Ethics of Digital Networks (Bernd
Frohmann) pp 57-68
- Globalization of Information Ethics (LÜ Yao-huai) pp. 69-73
PART II
INTERNET FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
- Digital Governance Models: Towards Empowerment and Good Governance in
Developing Countries (Vikas Nath) pp. 77-94
- Virtual Strangers - On the Social and Ethical Conditions of Virtual
Communities (Lucas D. Introna) pp. 95-108
- Laissez-faire or Regulation? Social and Policy Implications of IT
Telephony (Richard A. Spinello) pp. 109-120
- Gendered Views on the Ethics of Computer Professionals (Britta
Schinzel) pp. 121-134
- The Internet and Community Building at the Local and Global Levels:
Some Implications and Challenges (Frances S. Grodzinsky and Herman T.
Tavani) pp. 135-149
PART III
INTERNET FOR CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
- Can the Local Reshape the Global? Ethical Imperatives for Humane
Intercultural Communication Online (Charles Ess) pp. 153-170
- "New Technologies" and "Ancient Africa": The Impact of New
Information and Communication Technologies in Sub-Saharian Africa
(Willy Jackson and Issiaka Mandé) pp. 171-176
- The Internet within Seken as Old and Indigenous World of Meaning in
Japan. The Interrelationship between Seken, Shakai, and the Internet in
Japan (Makoto Nakada) pp. 177-204
- At the Boundaries of Ethics and Cultures: Virtual Communita as an
Open Ended Process Carrying the Will for Social Change (Daniel
Pimienta) pp. 205-228
- Collective Construction of Identity in Internet: Ethical Dimension
and Intercultural Perspective (Hugo Alberto Figueroa Alcántara) pp.
229-242
- Internet and Free Networks. From World-Networking to Place-Networking
(Wolfgang Sützl) pp. 243-262
PART IV
INTERNET FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- The Internet: The Missing Link Between the Information Poor and the
Information Rich? (Johannes Britz) pp. 265-278
- On Sharing Ideas and Expressions in Global Communities (Wolfgang Coy)
pp. 279-288
- The Internet, Information Machines, and the Technologies of the Self
(Fernando Elichirigoity) pp.289-300
- A Toolkit to Empower Communities in Latin America (Susana
Finquelievich) pp. 301-319
PART V
RESUME OF DISCUSSION
Fruit, Water, and Philosophy. Intercultural Perspectives on the
Internet. A Report on Working Groups' Discussions at the International
Symposium "Localizing the Internet. Ethical Issues in Intercultural
Perspective" (Rafael Capurro and Rupert M. Scheule) pp. 323-334
APPENDIX
Authors and Editors
Bibliography
Many of the questions we asked two years ago are now in the
international agenda under the labbel Web 2.0. And: Intercultural
Information Ethics is becoming more and more a key academic and
political issue.
I am particularly pleased to see the progress we have done with regard
to the promotion of Information Ethics in Africa. Our conference in
Pretoria has its roots in Karlsruhe!
kind regards
Rafael
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Prof. Dr. Rafael Capurro
Hochschule der Medien (HdM) - Stuttgart Media University, Wolframstr.
32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
Private: Redtenbacherstr. 9, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany
E-Mail: rafael@capurro.de; capurro@hdm-stuttgart.de
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Homepage: www.capurro.de
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Information Ethics Senior Fellow, 2007-2008, Center for Information
Policy Research, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee, USA
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