Journal Article10.1177/089443939801600305
Ethics, law, and information technology: the transformative role of rhetoric
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TL;DR: The authors explored how rhetorical accounts of new technologies influence the course of legislative, judicial, and regulatory decisions and proposed that such themes have the powerful capacity to determine outcomes and to shape modem concepts of both individual and societal freedoms and rights.
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Abstract: Following a brief consideration of the role of rhetoric in law, science, and policy, this article explores how rhetorical accounts of new technologies influence the course of legislative, judicial, and regulatory decisions. It proposes that such themes have the powerful capacity to determine outcomes and to shape modem concepts of both individual and societal freedoms and rights.
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