Is information ethics culture-relative?

International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 12-14

  Brey, Philip ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Centre for Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Science

Author keywords

Civil rights; Computers and society; Computing in developing countries; Cultural differences; Cultural pluralism; Cultural values; Global village; Information ethics; Intellectual property rights; Privacy cultural implerialism; Social issues; Social norms

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

CIVIL RIGHTS; COMPUTERS AND SOCIETIES; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; CULTURAL PLURALISM; CULTURAL VALUE; GLOBAL VILLAGE; INFORMATION ETHICS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; SOCIAL ISSUES; SOCIAL NORM;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 47349125124     PISSN: 15483908     EISSN: 15483916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jthi.2007070102     Document Type: Article

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