The Internet in Public Life

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The spread of new information and communications technologies during the past two decades has helped reshape associations, political communities, and global relations. The speed of technology-driven change has outpaced our understanding of its social and ethical effects.The Internet in Public Life raises critical questions about these effects.

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We have all been holding our breath to see what effect the explosive developments in information technology would have on society and culture. This helpful and compact book gives us a standpoint and a bearing on what has happened. The authors have carefully looked at whats out there. They have also had the courage to consider what is most importantour moral condition and our sense of community. -- Albert Borgmann, The University of Montana; author of Real American Ethics; author of Holding on to Reality (1999)

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Verna V. Gehring is editor at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, and editor of Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly.