Philosophy of the Information Society (eBook)

Table of Contents 5
Preface 9
Section 1: Philosophy of Media Medienphilosophie 11
Binding time: Harold Innis and the balance of new media 13
A view on the iconic turn from a semiotic perspective 31
Medienphilosophie und Bildungsphilosophie – Ein Plädoyer für Schnittstellenerkundungen 47
Medienwissenschaft, Medientheorie oder Medienphilosophie? 79
Media Philosophy— A Reasonable Programme? 93
Section 2: Philosophy of the Internet Philosophie des Internets 111
Science of Recording 113
Weltkommunikation und World Brain. Zur Archäologie der Informationsgesellschaft 129
Avatars and Lebensform: Kirchberg 2007 145
Towards a Philosophy of the Mobile Information Society 153
Section 3: Ethics and political Economy of the Information Society Ethik und politische Ökonomie der Informationsgesellschaft 169
On our Knowledge of Markets for Knowledge–A Survey 171
East–West Perspectives on Privacy, Ethical Pluralism and Global Information Ethics 189
Information Society: A Second “Great Transformation”? 209
Internet and the flow of knowledge: Which ethical and political challenges will we face? 219
Will the Open Access Movement be successful? 237
Globalisierte Produktion von (akademischem) Wissen – ein Wettbewerbsspiel 247
Section 4: Electronic philosophy resources and Open Source / Open Access Elektronische Philosophie-Ressourcen und Open Source / Open Access 263
Philosophy in an Evolving Web: Necessary Conditions, Web Technologies, and the Discovery Project 265
Some thoughts on the importance of open source and open access for emerging digital scholarship 279
The Necessary Multiplicity 291
References 306
Abstracts and Biographies 309