ABSTRACT
Readers who want technically detailed discussions of digital coding and machine-human interfacing will not find much of interest in this book. The book begins with three essays that were presented as conference keynote address and at two plenary sessions. Drawing on work of Michael Sandel, Amartya Sen and Peter Singer, Winchester's essay attempts to link an idea of social justice to the possibility of a politically engaged virtual world. Mahapatra's essay argues that 'in a world in which access is controlled, piracy is just one way in which users have to be creative to gain access to culture'. Nepal's essay outlines the web strategies used by the Lepchas for the purpose of self-representation as well as for seeking a unified strategy for political action. Roy's essay moves between a philosophical register that draws on Kant's discussions of individual autonomy and its effect on our understanding of 'autonomous learning', and the more practical register of the conditions in which students learn.
