Digital Decision Making: Back to the Future

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Springer Science & Business Media, 2007 M06 11 - 312 páginas

Since the general public began to use the Internet in the mid 1990s, there has been a vast amount of investment by governments and commerce in digital communications technologies. There has also been a fair degree of confusion and sometimes controversy about the purpose and effectiveness of such technologies, for example the proposed UK identity card system.

The far-reaching implications for commerce and society of some of these decisions in invisible or opaque specialist fields, however, mean they should be matters of concern for every citizen. This book argues: Decisions should be based on an understanding of the systems, technology and environment within which they operate. Experts and ordinary people should work together. Technology and law are evolving in restrictive rather than enabling ways.

It aims, to stimulate an awareness of the issues and be a readable, challenging and informative introduction, both for university students and the general reader, to processes surrounding developments in technology and law.

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Introduction to decision making
13
Harry Potter and the fullblooded lawyers
33
Infodiversity and the sustainability of our digital ecology
55
Canaries in the mine 77
76
Facts values and agendas
111
Critical thinking
128
DDM in intellectual property
157
Information feudalism?
163
Digital fences and the making of the WIPO copyright treaty
170
Experts and ordinary people
179
Experts make mistakes Experts and models 192
192
A modest proposal
203
Conclusion
227
References
293
Index
303

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