Investigating Cyber Law and Cyber Ethics: Issues, Impacts and Practices

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dc.contributor.authorDudley, Alfreda
dc.contributor.authorBraman, James
dc.contributor.authorVincenti, Giovanni
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-20T13:29:53Z
dc.date.available2017-09-20T13:29:53Z
dc.date.issued2011-01
dc.description.abstractConstitutional and Administrative Law is a core component of legal studies throughout the world, but to date little has been written about how this might exist on the Internet, which is like a world without frontiers. John Perry Barlow’s “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” served to start the debate about the legitimacy of nation-states to impose laws on such a virtual space. It has been argued that the nation-states won as there are now a signi cant number of laws regulating the Internet on national and international levels. It can however be seen that there are commonalities between the two entities. For example, there are commonalities in the way they function. There are also commonalities in the way civil rights exist, and the existence of civil remedies and law enforcement. These are all explored in the chapter, which also presents two concepts about the authority of the state in regulating behaviour in online communities. One of them, “sysop prerogative,” says that owners of website can do whatever they want so long as they have not had it taken away by law or given it away by contract. The second, ‘The Preece Gap’, says that there is a distance between the ideal usable and sociable website that the users want and that which the owners of the website provide in practice. Two other concepts are also introduced, “the Figallo effect” and the “Jimbo effect.” The former describes an online community where users use their actual identities and sysop prerogative is delegated to them. The latter describes those where sysop prerogative is exercised by one or more enforcers to control users who use pseudonyms. The chapter concludes that less anonymity and a more professionalised society are needed to bridge the gap between online and of ine regulation of behavior.en_US
dc.format.extent12 pagesen_US
dc.genrechaptersen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2J38KJ1C
dc.identifier.citationDudley, A., Braman, J., & Vincenti, G. (2012). Investigating cyber law and cyber ethics: issues, impacts and practices. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 254-263. doi:10.4018/978-1-61350-132-0.ch012en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/5421
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherInformation Science Referenceen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Baltimore
dc.subjectcyberspaceen_US
dc.subjectconstitutional and administrative frameworksen_US
dc.subjectinternational communications networksen_US
dc.subjectregulating interneten_US
dc.subjectcyber lawen_US
dc.titleInvestigating Cyber Law and Cyber Ethics: Issues, Impacts and Practicesen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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