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The Better Part of Valor: Meeting Current Human Needs Online without Compromising Future Selves

The Better Part of Valor: Meeting Current Human Needs Online without Compromising Future Selves

Shalin Hai-Jew
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781466608917|ISBN10: 1466608919|EISBN13: 9781466608924
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0891-7.ch010
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Hai-Jew, Shalin. "The Better Part of Valor: Meeting Current Human Needs Online without Compromising Future Selves." Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies, edited by Christina M. Akrivopoulou and Nicolaos Garipidis, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 142-156. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0891-7.ch010

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Hai-Jew, S. (2012). The Better Part of Valor: Meeting Current Human Needs Online without Compromising Future Selves. In C. Akrivopoulou & N. Garipidis (Eds.), Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies (pp. 142-156). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0891-7.ch010

Chicago

Hai-Jew, Shalin. "The Better Part of Valor: Meeting Current Human Needs Online without Compromising Future Selves." In Human Rights and Risks in the Digital Era: Globalization and the Effects of Information Technologies, edited by Christina M. Akrivopoulou and Nicolaos Garipidis, 142-156. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0891-7.ch010

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Abstract

The pervasiveness of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in the modern world makes it near impossible to conduct the living of daily life without these technologies. People go online to meet a variety of human needs—for work, shopping, security, socializing and intercommunications, self-worth, entertainment, and personal life goals. In the framework of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, online spaces often provide for the meeting of physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization, and yet, their every action, search, information sharing, social interchange, and digital thought is recorded into digital perpetuity. Law enforcement has tools to profile and track individuals in the Web?sphere and even deep into the Invisible or Hidden Web. This chapter explores how people may meet their many current human needs in the present without shortchanging their options for the future. In particular, the human rights risks that are discussed include security and well-being, privacy, reputation (freedom from defamation), and the flexibility of future choices.

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