Configuring the Networked Self

✍ Scribed by Julie E. Cohen

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 349
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The legal and technical rules governing flows of information are out of balance, argues Julie E. Cohen in this original analysis of information law and policy. Flows of cultural and technical information are overly restricted, while flows of personal information often are not restricted at all. The author investigates the institutional forces shaping the emerging information society and the contradictions between those forces and the ways that people use information and information technologies in their everyday lives. She then proposes legal principles to ensure that people have ample room for cultural and material participation as well as greater control over the boundary conditions that govern flows of information to, from, and about them.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Part One: Locating the Networked Self
1. Introduction: Imagining the Networked Information Society
2. From the Virtual to the Ordinary: Networked Space, Networked Bodies, and the Play of Everyday Practice
Part Two: Copyright and the Play of Culture
3. Copyright, Creativity, and Cultural Progress
4. Decentering Creativity
Part Three: Privacy and the Play of Subjectivity
5. Privacy, Autonomy, and Information
6. Reimagining Privacy
Part Four: Code, Control, and the Play of Material Practice
7. “Piracy,” “Security,” and Architectures of Control
8. Rethinking “Unauthorized Access”
Part Five: Human Flourishing in a Networked World
9. The Structural Conditions of Human Flourishing
10. Conclusion: Putting Cultural Environmentalism into Practice
Notes
Bibliography
Index