Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age

First published 2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pruchnic, Jeff.
Rhetoric and ethics in the cybernetic age : the transhuman condition / by Jeff Pruchnic.
p. cm. -- (Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication ; 17) Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Internet—Social aspects. 2. Internet—Moral and ethical aspects.
3. Information technology—Social aspects. 4. Information
technology—Moral and ethical aspects. I. Title.
HM851.P768 2013
302.23′1—dc23
2013011250

ISBN: 978-0-415-84034-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-76841-9 (ebk)

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