Colleagues, On behalf of my co-editor, Soraj Hongladarom (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand), and our collected authors - including several sister and fellow AoIRists! - I'm very pleased to announce the following publication: Hongladarom, S. and Ess, C. (eds.). 2007. _Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives_. Hershey, Pennsylvania: Idea Reference. <http://www.idea-group.com/reference/details.asp?id=6336> Chapters from some of the most prominent scholars and philosophers in information ethics, both within and beyond traditionally Western domains, address a wide range of central ethical issues from both theoretical and culture-specific perspectives. Individually and collectively, the chapters will help readers develop a genuinely global approach to the diverse ethical issues created by information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their possible resolutions. The Introduction summarizes the contributions, connects them to the larger literatures in information and computing ethics, and sketches the requirements and characteristics of a possible _global_ information and computing ethics - an ethics, we argue, that will be increasingly urgent for all users of ICTs, as more and more citizens of the world (now ca. 1/6th of the world's population) encounter and engage one another cross-culturally. To our knowledge, this is the first anthology to approach information ethics from such a wide range of perspectives - including multiple Asian and African perspectives, as well as those of peoples marginalized in developed countries. Table of Contents: Section I -Theoretical Concerns Chapter I: The Moral Status of Information and Information Technologies: A Relational Theory of Moral Status / Johnny Hartz Søraker Chapter II: Online Communities, Democratic Ideals, and the Digital Divide / Frances S. Grodzinsky and Herman T. Tavani Chapter III: The Mediating Effect of Material Cultures as Human Hybridiation / Lorenzo Magnani Chapter IV: Culture and Technology: A Mutual-Shaping Approach / Thomas Herdin, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, and Ursula Maier-Rabler Chapter V: Mobile Phone and Autonomy / Theptawee Chokvasin Chapter VI: Ethics of Digitalization: Designing so as not to Hurt Others / Maja van der Velden Chapter VII: Privacy and Property in the Global Datasphere / Dan L. Burk Chapter VIII: Analysis and Justification of Privacy from a Buddhist Perspective / Soraj Hongladarom Section II - Specific Viewpoints Chapter IX: Information Privacy in a Surveillance State: A Perspective from Thailand / Pirongrong Ramasoota Rananand Chapter X; Interactions among Thai Culture, ICT, and IT Ethics / P. Bhattarakosol Chapter XI: We Cannot Eat Data: The Need for Computer Ethics to Address the Cultural and Ecological Impacts of Computing / Barbara Paterson Chapter XII: Current and Future State of ICT Deployment and Utilization in Healthcare: An Analysis of Cross-Cultural Ethical Issues / Bernd Carsten Stahl, Simon Rogerson, and Amin Kashmeery Chapter XIII: Business and Technology in Turkey: An Emerging Country at the Crossroad of Civilations / Gonca Telli Yamamoto Chapter XIV: The Existential Significance of the Digital Divide for America¹s Historically Underserved Populations / Lynette Kvasny Yes, Amazon has it ... Cordially, - charles ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies <http://www.drury.edu/gp21> Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Information Ethics Fellow, 2006-07, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee <http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ethics.html> Co-chair, CATaC conferences <www.catacconference.org> Vice-President, Association of Internet Researchers <www.aoir.org> Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php> Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23