Cyberidentities: Canadian and European Presence in Cyberspace

This innovative study explores diverse aspects of Canadian and European identity on the information highway and reaches beyond technical issues to confront and explore communication, culture and the culture of communication. 1. The Trans-Canada Highway vs The Information Highway: The Road Less Trave...

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Other Authors: D'Haenens, Leen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa Press 1999
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19615
http://www.press.uottawa.ca/book/cyberidentities
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Summary:This innovative study explores diverse aspects of Canadian and European identity on the information highway and reaches beyond technical issues to confront and explore communication, culture and the culture of communication. 1. The Trans-Canada Highway vs The Information Highway: The Road Less Traveled? (Irwin Shubert) 2. On the (Information) Highway: So Is This a Journey or What? (Robert Kroetsch) 3. Human Rights in Cyberspace (Cees J. Hamelink) 4. Internet and Public Order (Stylianos Garipis) 5. The Legal Aspects of Digital Signatures (Patrick van Eecke) 6.How Comfortably Does the Internet Sit on Canada's Tundra? Reflections on Public Access to the Information Highway in the North (Lorna Roth) 7. Policy-Making and the Value of Electronic Forms of Public Debate: Underpinning, Assumptions and First Experiences (Cees Leeuwis) 8. Two Canadian Models of Communities on the Net: SchoolNet and Community Access (Alan L. Cobb) 9. Teledemocracy in the Province: An Experiment with Internet-Based Software and Public Debate (Nicholas Jankowski, Cees Leeuwis, Peter Martin, Margreet Noordhof & Jeffrey van Rossum) 10. Work and Community in Networked Organizations (Caroline Haythornthwaite) 11. ICTsforSMEs: The SME Wins on the Information Highway (Karel Uyttendaele) 12. The Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts (CEECT) and Cyberspace (Mary Jane Edwards) 13. The Position of Flanders with Regard to Some Internet-Related Matters (Luc Van Fleteren) 14. Québécois Policy and the Development of the Information Highway (Serge Proulx) 15. Advancing Canada's Information Highway: Strategies for the New Millennium (David Johnston & Natasha H. Faraqui) 16. Electronic Commerce Policy and the European Commission (Paul Timmers)