Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication

Charles Ess is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Drury College.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Thoughts along the I-Way: Philosophy and the Emergence of CMC

Charles Ess

I. Epistemology and Semiotics

1.  Discourse across Links

David Kolb

2.  Mediated Phosphor Dots: Toward a Post-Cartesian Model of CMC via the Semiotic Superhighway

Gary Shank and Donald Cunningham

II. Ethics, Gender, and Politics

3.  Privacy, Respect for Persons, and Risk

Dag Elgesem

4.  Pseudonyms, MailBots, and Virtual Letterheads: The Evolution of Computer-Mediated Ethics

Peter Danielson

5.  Intellectual Property Futures: The Paper Club and the Digital Commons

John Lawrence

6.  Posting in a Different Voice: Gender and Ethics in CMC

Susan Herring

7.  "This Is Not Our Fathers' Pornography": Sex, Lies, and Computers

Carol J. Adams

8.  Power Online: A Poststructuralist Perspective on CMC

Sunh-Hee Yoon

9.  The Political Computer: Democracy, CMC, and Habermas

Charles Ess

III. Impacts and Implications for Religious Authority, Communities, and Beliefs

10. The Unknown God of the Internet: Religious Communication from the Ancient Agora to the Virtual Forum

Stephen D. O'Leary and Brenda E. Brasher

11. Sacred Text in the Sea of Texts: The Bible in North American Electronic Culture

Phil Mullins

Contributors

Index