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The problems of global cultural homogenisation in a technologically dependant world
N Ben Fairweather, Simon RogersonGlobal cultural homogenisation has significant consequences for our responsibility for others in distant parts of the globe. ICT gives a powerful impetus to this cultural…
Airports as data filters: Converging surveillance systems after September 11th
David LyonAirports are crucial channels of mobility for the global citizens of the twenty‐first century. They are points of entry and exit for tourists, business persons, workers, students…
Online cultural imperialism: Is it an ethical issue?
John Weckert, Yeslam Al‐SaggafRecently two reports appeared in the press, each of which expressed a very different attitude towards intellectual property. One, in the Australian press, discusses a bill before…
Hacker ethics in the marketplace: the example of freeware
Andy BissettAn intriguing development in the realm of commercial software has arisen over the last decade, from highly improbable beginnings. From its inception in the ‘hacker ethic’…
Emerging ethical perspectives of e‐commerce
Lisa Harris, Anne‐Marie Coles, Richard DaviesA key debate about the nature and role of ecommerce centres around the question of whether it is merely an old activity in a new form, or a discontinuous process that rewrites the…
Code, coding and coded perspectives
L Jean CampI begin with a discussion of code and its primary types: embedded, source, binary and interpreted. I then consider three measures in which code is fundamentally different than…
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- Dr Jenifer Sunrise Winter