Information Technology

Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities

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Electronic networks are a new communication medium that allows people to interact, coordinate action, and access and exchange information, all from their desktop computers. The networks have spawned a growing set of services that now include electronic mail, electronic publications and bulletin boards, conferencing, on-line information services and digital libraries, electronic transactions, and computer playgrounds. Computer and communications technology can, with a high degree of assurance, be assumed to be increasingly capable for a long time to come. But such technology is an enabler for a variety of social phenomena that are more difficult to predict or understand, and the true intellectual challenges are much more likely to arise from people's use of networks for communication and information exchange than from the development of the technology to move large amounts of electronic information rapidly from one place to another. At a workshop held in November 1992 and a public forum in February 1993, technologists, service providers, policy analysts, lawyers, and social scientists from academia, industry, and government met to discuss some of the social issues raised by the emergence of electronic communities. This report is based on the discussions of the workshop and forum, as well as deliberations of the steering committee and material that has appeared in the interim. Its purpose is not to draw conclusions, find definitive answers, or make specific recommendations;

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: ., 1994

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1-173

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English

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0-309-58695-X

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Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Net

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