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The Social Contract Revised: Obligation and Responsibility in the Information Society

The Social Contract Revised: Obligation and Responsibility in the Information Society

Robert Joseph Skovira
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781599049373|ISBN10: 1599049376|EISBN13: 9781599049380
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-937-3.ch187
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Skovira, Robert Joseph. "The Social Contract Revised: Obligation and Responsibility in the Information Society." Information Security and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Hamid Nemati, IGI Global, 2008, pp. 2797-2813. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-937-3.ch187

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Skovira, R. J. (2008). The Social Contract Revised: Obligation and Responsibility in the Information Society. In H. Nemati (Ed.), Information Security and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 2797-2813). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-937-3.ch187

Chicago

Skovira, Robert Joseph. "The Social Contract Revised: Obligation and Responsibility in the Information Society." In Information Security and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Hamid Nemati, 2797-2813. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-937-3.ch187

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Abstract

This chapter introduces the social contract as a basis for personal and corporate responsibility and obligation. I briefly discuss three perspectives on the nature of the social contract: the Hobbesean, the Lockean, and the Rousseauean. I discuss the idea that information technology and the information society are in the process of revising the social contract. It sees the Internet as a key transformer of the sense of the social contract. It ends with a discussion of three revisionary frames: virtual communitarianism, radical individualism, and social capitalism.

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