In this revelatory new book, prominent academics O'Hara and Stevens tackle all the thorny issues which crop up when you realise that the internet is just another practically unregulated space in which actions take place. Whereas suppliers of goods, services and information often have to ensure availability to all in the real world and are subject to strict rules, in the virtual sphere such conventions rarely exist. On this note, the authors inspect how the lack of internet access to the poor can deprive them of services and information that are essential to their status as equal citizens in society. Likewise, they discuss how uncertainty about future technologies undermines our personal liberty - we can never be sure how the trail of information we leave about ourselves will be used in years to come.
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"Inequality.com constitutes a worthy attempt to apply the conceptual rigour of political philosophy to ICT" -- Times Literary Supplement, 04/05/07
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Kieron O'Hara is Senior Research Fellow in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group (IAM), in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. David Stevens is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Nottingham, UK.
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