[Reader-list] New Book - Law and Internet Cultures

[z3118338 at student.unsw.edu.au]

This looks very useful and good. As i have read some of it already I recommend 
it to everyone interested in the topic

Martin

Law and Internet Cultures
Kathy Bowrey
University of New South Wales, Sydney

http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521600480

 (ISBN-10: 0521600480 | ISBN-13: 9780521600484)

Not yet published - available from May 2005

 (Stock level updated: 08:00 GMT, 30 March 2005)
£17.99

This book raises the profile of socio-political questions about the global 
technology and information market. It is a close study of communication 
flows, networks, nodes, biopolitics and the fragmentations of power. It 
brings to life the role played by personalities, corporate interactions, 
industry compromises and the regulatory incompetencies, affecting the 
technological world we all live in. US technology powers the internet and 
disseminates American culture on an unprecedented scale. Assessing this power 
requires an analysis of the diffuse ways that US practice, policy and law 
dominates, and a consideration of how influence is negotiated and resisted 
locally. This involves a discussion about how ideas about trade and 
innovation circulate; of the social power of engineers that establish 
conventions and protocols; of the reach of Leviathan corporations; and 
questions about global marketing and consumer tastes. For readers interested 
in intellectual property law, information technology, cultural studies, 
globalisation and mass communications.


• A study of the internet and how it is regulated, familiar with the US 
debates, but consciously positioned from outside US perspectives


• A considered, practical appraisal of the limits of contemporary law making 
in relation to technology issues.


• It will appeal to a cross section of subject areas and includes a good mix 
of scholarly, journalistic and cultural observations
Contents

1. Defining Internet law; 2. Defining Internet cultures; 3. Universal 
standards and the end of the universe. The IETF, global governance and 
patents; 4. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds; 5. In a world 
without fences who needs Gates?; 6. Telling tales. Digital piracy and the 
law; 7. Participate/comply/resist