Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies

Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies

Author: Akrivopoulou, Christina M.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1466608927

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Globalization, along with its digital and information communication technology counterparts, including the Internet and cyberspace, may signify a whole new era for human rights, characterized by new tensions, challenges, and risks for human rights, as well as new opportunities. Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies explores the emergence and evolution of ‘digital’ rights that challenge and transform more traditional legal, political, and historical understandings of human rights. Academic and legal scholars will explore individual, national, and international democratic dilemmas--sparked by economic and environmental crises, media culture, data collection, privatization, surveillance, and security--that alter the way individuals and societies think about, regulate, and protect rights when faced with new challenges and threats. The book not only uncovers emerging changes in discussions of human rights, it proposes legal remedies and public policies to mitigate the challenges posed by new technologies and globalization.


Forgotten Vanguard

Forgotten Vanguard

Author: Christian Talley

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

Published: 2018-03-30

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0268103003

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The trading relationship between the United States and China, though now robust, was a recent and hardly inevitable development. Political animosity stemming from the Korean War and America's subsequent strategic embargo of China broke off economic and cultural ties. Following two decades of China's international isolation, as the United States sought to realign the geopolitical order in the 1970s, Washington began to engineer a restoration of its relationship with China. Diplomatic historians have carefully documented the formal and governmental intrigues of Nixon, Kissinger, Mao, and Zhou Enlai. As this book shows, a vigorous reconstruction of bilateral ties was unfolding simultaneously at the level of informal diplomacy, especially in the realm of US-China trade. Central to understanding the renewal of bilateral commerce is the National Council for United States-China Trade, an organization that, although nongovernmental, was established in 1973 with Washington's encouragement and oversight. The Council organized major American corporations not only to engage in commercial exchanges with China, but also to function as a diplomatic backchannel between Washington and Beijing before the two nations restored formal relations in 1979. Using the Council to historicize the entangling of the American and Chinese economies, Forgotten Vanguard not only reveals globalization's contingent path but also exposes the hidden importance of informal trade diplomacy in building the modern US-China relationship. This book will appeal to those with an interest in Cold War history, international relations, and the history of American diplomacy, with particular emphases on informal diplomacy and the modern history of the US-China economic relationship.


Information Security and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Information Security and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Author: Nemati, Hamid

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2007-09-30

Total Pages: 4144

ISBN-13: 1599049384

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Presents theories and models associated with information privacy and safeguard practices to help anchor and guide the development of technologies, standards, and best practices. Provides recent, comprehensive coverage of all issues related to information security and ethics, as well as the opportunities, future challenges, and emerging trends related to this subject.


Globalization, Technology Diffusion and Gender Disparity: Social Impacts of ICTs

Globalization, Technology Diffusion and Gender Disparity: Social Impacts of ICTs

Author: Pande, Rekha

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2012-01-31

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1466600217

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"This book discusses theoretical aspects of gender issues in ICT and presents a number of case studies from various countries, covering topics such as social networking, ICT use among women, the digital divide, and theoretical approaches to gender gaps and ICT"--Provided by publisher.


Sustainability Science for Social, Economic, and Environmental Development

Sustainability Science for Social, Economic, and Environmental Development

Author: Ghosh, Nilanjan

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2014-01-31

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1466649968

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While the effects of climate change become ever more apparent and pressing, the discussion of sustainable practices and environmental protection is a common overture among the academic and scientific communities. However, in order to be truly effective, sustainable solutions must be tested and applied in real-world situations. Sustainability Science for Social, Economic, and Environmental Development investigates the role of sustainability in the everyday lives of ordinary citizens, including issues of economy, social interaction, exploitation of natural resources, and sources of renewable energy. In this book, researchers, policy makers, economists, scientists, and general readers will all find crucial insight into the parallels between theory and practice in sustainable development.


Ethical Models and Applications of Globalization

Ethical Models and Applications of Globalization

Author: Charles Wankel

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 9781613503348

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"This book presents the work of researchers who seek to advance the understanding of both the ethical impact of globalization and the influence of globalization on ethical practices from various cultural, socio-political, economic, and religious perspectives"--Provided by publisher.


Handbook of Research on Global Information Technology Management in the Digital Economy

Handbook of Research on Global Information Technology Management in the Digital Economy

Author: Raisinghani, Mahesh S.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2008-01-31

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 1599048760

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Includes the most important issues, concepts, trends and technologies in the field of global information technology management, covering topics such as the technical platform for global IS applications, information systems projects spanning cultures, managing information technology in corporations, and global information technology systems and socioeconomic development in developing countries.


Current Security Management & Ethical Issues of Information Technology

Current Security Management & Ethical Issues of Information Technology

Author: Rasool Azari

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1931777594

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"This scholarly examination of the ethical issues in information technology management covers basic details such as improving user education and developing security requirements as well as more complicated and far-reaching problems such as protecting infrastructure against information warfare. Social responsibility is analyzed with global examples and applications, including knowledge-based society in Latin America, socioeconomics factors of technology in the United States, and system ethics in the Arab world."


Ethics and Technology

Ethics and Technology

Author: Herman T. Tavani

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Explores current issues in the field of cyberethics, including questions about onlinepersonal privacy, sharing music, and unreliable software, and analyzes the practical, moral, and legal implications of each issue.