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Volume 22 Number 2
Summer 2003
Social Implications of IT & Communication Tech.

Guest Editor:
Joseph R. Herkert

 Special Issue Feature

    12   Virtual Harms and Real Responsibility*
    Virtual behavior can have real psychological and physical consequences.
    Chuck Huff, Deborah G. Johnson, and Keith Miller

 Special Issue Articles

    20 Tapping ICT to Reduce Poverty in Rural India*
    Information and communication technologies can enhance poor people's opportunities by improving access to markets, health, and education.
    Simone Cecchini

    28   Incorporating Societal Concerns into Communication Technologies*
    Scientists and policymakers are designing and advocating the use of technologies to proactively protect or serve societal values.
    Rajiv C. Shah and Jay P. Kesan

    34  Information Ethics in the Design and Use of Metadata*
    Just as information contains the explicit and implicit values of its creators, so does the metadata that describes, summarizes, or represents that information.
    Roberta Brody

    40   Anti-Circumvention Misuse*
    How the author learned to stop worrying and love the DMCA.
    Dan L. Burk



    * Refereed articles.

    Cover Image: Photodisc.