Konrad Becker: Die Politik der Infosphäre: World-Information.Org (2003) [German]
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Wir leben in einer Zeit des Übergangs zwischen einem Zeitalter, das auf industrieller Produktion basiert, und einer Gesellschaft, in der die Schaffung und der Austausch von Informationen den Mittelpunkt bilden. Mit der Entwicklung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien ist eine neue, globalisierte Wirtschaft auf dem Vormarsch, die nicht nur aktuelle politische Vorgänge beeinflusst. Gleichfalls hinterfragt sie den inneren Zusammenhalt der Gesellschaft, die traditionellen Werte und das bisherige Verständnis von Arbeit und Kultur.
“Die Politik der Infosphäre World-Information.Org” untersucht diese dramatischen Veränderungen und zeigt aktuelle Tendenzen dieses gesellschaftlichen Wandels auf.
Editors Konrad Becker, Institut für Neue Kulturtechnol
Publisher VS Verlag, 2003
ISBN 3810038660, 9783810038661
Length 272 pages
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Comment (0)Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · facebook, internet, memory, myspace, privacy, surveillance, web 2.0
Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we’ve searched for and when. The digital realm remembers what is sometimes better forgotten, and this has profound implications for us all.
In Delete, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger traces the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, from the ability to make sound decisions unencumbered by the past to the possibility of second chances. The written word made it possible for humans to remember across generations and time, yet now digital technology and global networks are overriding our natural ability to forget–the past is ever present, ready to be called up at the click of a mouse. Mayer-Schönberger examines the technology that’s facilitating the end of forgetting–digitization, cheap storage and easy retrieval, global access, and increasingly powerful software–and describes the dangers of everlasting digital memory, whether it’s outdated information taken out of context or compromising photos the Web won’t let us forget. He explains why information privacy rights and other fixes can’t help us, and proposes an ingeniously simple solution–expiration dates on information–that may.
Delete is an eye-opening book that will help us remember how to forget in the digital age.
Publisher Princeton University Press, 2009
ISBN 0691138613, 9780691138619
237 pages
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Comments (6)Daniel J. Solove: The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · cyberlaw, internet, law, privacy, reputation
Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But there’s a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in a Google search. A permanent chronicle of our private lives—often of dubious reliability and sometimes totally false—will follow us wherever we go, accessible to friends, strangers, dates, employers, neighbors, relatives, and anyone else who cares to look. This engrossing book, brimming with amazing examples of gossip, slander, and rumor on the Internet, explores the profound implications of the online collision between free speech and privacy.
Daniel Solove, an authority on information privacy law, offers a fascinating account of how the Internet is transforming gossip, the way we shame others, and our ability to protect our own reputations. Focusing on blogs, Internet communities, cybermobs, and other current trends, he shows that, ironically, the unconstrained flow of information on the Internet may impede opportunities for self-development and freedom. Long-standing notions of privacy need review, the author contends: unless we establish a balance between privacy and free speech, we may discover that the freedom of the Internet makes us less free.
Published by Yale University Press, 2007
ISBN 0300124988, 9780300124989
247 pages
PDF (updated 2011-2-18)
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