Human rights and information communication technologies [electronic resource] : trends and consequences of use / John Lannon and Edward Halpin, editors.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2013.Description: electronic texts (246 p.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781466619197 (ebook)
- Human rights
- Information technology -- Political aspects
- Information technology -- Social aspects
- Communication rights, privacy and free speech
- Human rights activism
- Human rights and the Internet
- Human rights organizations and the application of ICT
- Gender-based rights
- Human rights education
- Impact of ICT policies
- Information security
- Information systems deployment in human rights
- Mobile technologies and human rights
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- JC571 .H768827 2013e
- Also available in print.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Human rights and technology: lessons from Alice in Wonderland / Judith Dueck, Michael Rempel -- ICT policies favouring human rights / Rolf H. Weber -- Negotiating boundaries between control and dissent: free speech, business, and repressitarian governments / Brian J. Bowe, Robin Blom, Eric Freedman -- "In YouTube we trust": video exchange and Arab human rights / Aziz Douai -- Truth-seeking at a distance: engaging diaspora populations in transitional justice processes / Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm -- ICT and human rights in Brazil: from military to digital dictatorship / Jos�e Rodrigues Filho -- Contingency and hybridity in the study of digital advocacy networks: implications of the Egyptian protest movement / Christopher Wilson, Alexandra Dunn -- Crowdsourcing for human rights monitoring: challenges and opportunities for information collection and verification / Jessica Heinzelman, Patrick Meier -- Counting the unknown victims of political violence: the work of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group / Ann Harrison -- Human rights defenders and the right to digital privacy and security / Tanya Notley, Stephanie Hankey -- Social assistance via the internet: the case of Finland in the European context / Minna Str�omberg-Jakka -- Mental health, post-secondary education, and information communications technology / Jenny Martin, Elspeth McKay -- ICTs and gender-based rights / Ana-Cristina Ionescu -- Health information technology and human rights / Shane O'Hanlon.
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"This book provides a current examination of policy, practice, and theory relating to human rights and information, communications and technology and offers a comprehensive review of the topic and the exponential changes that have occurred through the last decade"--Provided by publisher.
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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