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The Internet And Political Campaigns: Some Early Considerations, Ibpp Editor Dec 1998

The Internet And Political Campaigns: Some Early Considerations, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article provides hypotheses on the effects of the Internet on political campaigns. The IBPP staff hopes that researchers among its readers will attempt to evaluate these hypotheses through combinations of empiricism, rationalism, and other epistemological approaches.


The Threat Of Long-Arm Jurisdiction To Electronic Commerce, Robert J. Aalberts, Anthony M. Townsend, Michael E. Whitman Dec 1998

The Threat Of Long-Arm Jurisdiction To Electronic Commerce, Robert J. Aalberts, Anthony M. Townsend, Michael E. Whitman

Faculty and Research Publications

Unfortunately for those whose businesses rely on the Internet, an increasing amount of legal conflict is also arising in reaction to this new business medium. As attorneys and the courts attempt to sort out the Internet’s legal status quo, both are considering such pressing substantive issues as electronic contracts, privacy, trademark, copyright, defamation, computer crimes, censorship, and taxation. It is imperative that information system professionals become aware of how evolving Internet law will affect the medium they are charged with administrating. An informed IS community is also much more capable of mounting legal and political challenges to law that might …


Nonexplosive Warfare: Is It New Or Old?, Ibpp Editor Nov 1998

Nonexplosive Warfare: Is It New Or Old?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article provides a contrary opinion to the analysis of the new United States Secretary of the Navy, Richard Danzig, concerning biological warfare agents and computer-attack variants of information warfare. The opinion is based on the perspective of science and technological change within the context of social, cultural, and political phenomena.


Unwilling Actors: Why Voluntary Mediation Works, Why Mandatory Mediation Might Not, Gary Smith Oct 1998

Unwilling Actors: Why Voluntary Mediation Works, Why Mandatory Mediation Might Not, Gary Smith

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article examines the debate over the introduction of mandatory mediation in civil litigation. It analyzes why and how voluntary mediation works in order to measure how the process might change under the new regime being implemented in Ontario. The underlying narrative structures of mediation are exposed using semiotic theories commonly employed in the study of theatre. This article will show that mediation, when imposed on unwilling parties, will hinder its efficacy and compromise its theatrical processes. The author concludes that the best way to ensure that making mediation mandatory does not discredit the efficacy and benefits of the process …


A New Regulatory Environment For The Telecommunication Industry, Jerome Lavigne Delville Jan 1998

A New Regulatory Environment For The Telecommunication Industry, Jerome Lavigne Delville

LLM Theses and Essays

The idea of information superhighways has been spurred by consumer demand, technological development and political institutions. These advancements and interests require a regulatory framework to control the operation of, and competition within the telecommunications industry. This paper focuses on government regulation of telecommunication carriers, information services (internet), video-programming and wireless telecommunication (spectrum). This paper also highlights the roles of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as compared to previous laws prior to the 1996 Act.


Liz Phair, Sexual Agency Feminism And Rock Criticism, Kembrew Mcleod Dec 1997

Liz Phair, Sexual Agency Feminism And Rock Criticism, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


―Happy Birthday, Screw You‖: The Collision Of Copyright Law, The Folk Song Tradition, And The World‘S Most Popular Birthday Song, Kembrew Mcleod Dec 1997

―Happy Birthday, Screw You‖: The Collision Of Copyright Law, The Folk Song Tradition, And The World‘S Most Popular Birthday Song, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


A Video Camera, A Television, An Audience, And Some Imagination: Four Ingredients For A Successful Interactive Classroom Exercise In Critical Pedagogy, Kembrew Mcleod Dec 1997

A Video Camera, A Television, An Audience, And Some Imagination: Four Ingredients For A Successful Interactive Classroom Exercise In Critical Pedagogy, Kembrew Mcleod

Kembrew McLeod

No abstract provided.


Themes That Thread Through Society: Racism And Athletic Manifestation In The African-American Community, Keith Harrison Dec 1997

Themes That Thread Through Society: Racism And Athletic Manifestation In The African-American Community, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

The purpose of this article is to examine and critically analyze the impact of sport in the African-American community. This critique of the social and behavioral outcomes of sport in the African-American community will include philosophical, historical, and sociological inquiry most affecting the plight of the African-American male in academics and athletics. Data on the perceptions of contemporary African-American men participating in sport in higher education will also add more support to the conclusion that race and sport are socially constructed in society.