The rush to the Information Superhighway and the transition to an Information Age have enormous political, ethical, and religious consequences. The essays collected here develop both interdisciplinary and international perspectives on privacy, critical thinking and literacy, democratization, gender, religion, and the very nature of the revolution promised in cyberspace. These essays are essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand and reflect upon these events and issues.
Develops 11 interdisciplinary and international perspectives on such issues of the Information Age as privacy, critical thinking, literacy, democratization, gender, religion, and the nature of the revolution promised by the purveyors of cyberspace. Among the specific topics are privacy as respect, intellectual property futures, pornography, the unknown god of the Internet, and sacred text in the sea of texts. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
