UID:
edocfu_9961069611702883
Format:
1 online resource (209 p.)
ISBN:
1-135-99202-9
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1-135-99195-2
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1-281-33166-X
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9786611331665
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1-84392-444-7
Series Statement:
FTC facts for consumers
Content:
Cyberspace opens up infinitely new possibilities to the deviant imagination. With access to the Internet and sufficient know-how you can, if you are so inclined, buy a bride, cruise gay bars, go on a global shopping spree with someone else's credit card, break into a bank's security system, plan a demonstration in another country and hack into the Pentagon ? all on the same day. In more than any other medium, time and place are transcended, undermining the traditional relationship between physical context and social situation. This book crosses the boundaries of sociological, crimino
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Dot.cons Crime, deviance and identity on the Internet; Copyright; Contents; About the authors; Chapter 1 Crime, deviance and the disembodied self: transcending the dangers of corporeality; Chapter 2 Policing the Net: crime, regulation and surveillance in cyberspace; Chapter 3 Cyberpunters and cyberwhores: prostitution on the Internet; Chapter 4 The electronic cloak: secret sexual deviance in cybersociety; Chapter 5 Cyber-chattels: buying brides and babies on the Net; Chapter 6 What a tangled web we weave: identity theft and the Internet; Chapter 7 Cyberstalking: an international perspective
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Chapter 8 Maestros or misogynists? Gender and the social construction of hackingChapter 9 Digital counter-cultures and the nature of electronic social and political movements; Chapter 10 Investigating cybersociety: a consideration of the ethical and practical issues surrounding online research in chat rooms; References; Index
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Mode of access: Internet from the FTC web site. Address as of 7/7/04: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/dotcons.pdf; current access is available via PURL.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84392-000-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84392-001-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781843924449
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