Culture and global networks: Hope for a global ethics?

Information Technology and Moral Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 195-225

  Ess, Charles ^a,b  

^a DRURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511498725.012     Document Type: Chapter

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