High Noon on the Electronic Frontier

Edited by Peter Ludlow

ISBN 10: 0262621037 / ISBN 13: 9780262621038

Published by MIT Press, 1996

About this Item

Condition Notes: Upper wrap notably curled; Paperback; Measures 9" x 6" (0.9 kg); pp 536; Index; Bibliography; Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace. Nowhere has the challenge of thinking rigorously and clearly been greater than it has in cyberspace - what John Perry Barlow first called "the Electronic Frontier." Here we have a whole new mode of communications, of interaction, and of action itself - how are we to map our understandings of law, ethics, psychology, and the social order to this new arena of human behaviour? In this book Peter Ludlow takes an important first step by assembling a multitude of perspectives on this question and the many issues it raises. || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #158631 ||.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: High Noon on the Electronic Frontier
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0262621037
• ISBN 13: 9780262621038
• Binding: Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.)
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Computing

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Synopsis

Peter Ludlow has culled from various sources, both print and electronic, key articles on hot cyberspace policy issues, together with lively extracts from online discussions of these issues. These include the standard academic pieces along with "rants and manifestos" on a broad range of issues from the denizens of cyberspace and reflect the discourse of cyberspace itself. At times they have what Ludlow terms "a certain gonzo quality," but nonetheless they raise serious conceptual issues in a way that illustrates precisely what is at stake. The topics covered in this timely compilation include privacy, property rights, hacking and cracking, encryption, censorship, and self and community on-line.

About the Author

Mike Godwin is a Policy Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, in Washington, D.C., and a columnist for American Lawyer magazine.