Contents V
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Contents V Preface XI
Law in Cyberspace_
1. In Law, We Trust: Shortly to Bumblebees and the Normativity
of Law in Cyberspace 3
Radim Polcak
2. Code is Murphy's Law 11
Pieter Kleve and Richard De Mulder
3. Identity and Legal Personality in Cyberspace 21
Christopher Harding
4. Can a Web-site Constitute an Establishment for the Purposes
of Jurisdiction and Applicable Law? 27
Michael Bogdan
5.
To be, or not to be, Borderless: The Future of the Internet
Don jerker 8. Svantesson
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6. Islamic jurisprudence in Cyberspace: Construction of Interpretative Authority in Muslim Diaspora 43
Vft Sisler
7. Language for Automated Law Processing 5 I
Adam Ptašnik
8. Electronic Communication in Legal Profession 57
Zdeněk Brundík
9. Failure of the Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions, its Context and the Lessons Learnt for the Future - Short Overview 67
Jiří Jirsa
e-government & e-governance_
10. Recent Developments Relating toElectronic Government 79
Ludwig Grämlich
11. Civic Groups and Parliaments in eGov Planning:An Analysis of eGov Projects in Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania 99
Marina Sokolova
12. Dialectic Learning for SupportingE-Democracy in the European Union 105
Franz Aigner and Max Watzenboeck
13. Cyberspace in Public Administration I 13
Adam Ptasnik
14. "The Never Ending Story" or 15,000 Years of Attempts to Register
Inhabitants I 17
Vladimír Smíd, Karel Schelle and Renáta Veselá
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Cybercrime
15. Legal Protection of the Information Systems in the Czech Republic against Crime 129
Vladimir Smejkal
16. Legality of a Virtual Pornography on the Internet 139
MichaelVrtek
17. Use of Electronic Guestbooks and Bulletin Board Systems on
Right- and Left-Wing Extremists* Web Sites 147
Thomas Roessing
18. Cybercrime: (Cyber)Criminological and (Cyber)Victimological Particularities of the "Information Superhighway" 155
Ales Zavrsnik
Sociology a Philosophy of Cyberspace
19. Conceptual Views of a Virtual World 179
Diane Rowland
20. The Stability of Cyberspace 189
Alexander Knorr
21. Network Society Theory as a Contribution to the Discussion about Social Exclusion 197
Barbara Vackova
22. Digital Inequality: A Five Country Comparison Using Microdata 203
Hiroshi Ono and Madeline Zavodny
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23. Cyber - Space of Possibles 219
Timothy Stanley
24. In & Out: How to Study Interactions in Virtual Context 229
Maurizio Teli and Francesco Pisanu
25. Cyberspace on the Stage 239
Jana Horáková
Psychology and Internet_
26. The Cyberself: Usage of Personal Websites 251
Astrid Schütz, Bernd Marcus, Franz Machilek and Aline Vater
27. Czech Internet Report: The Rise of the Internet Generation? 261
David Smahel
28. More about the Specifics of Cybersexual Interaction 269
Radana Divínová
29. The Popularity of Net Plagiarism Among Czech Students 277
Jan Cincera and Luóe Velichová
30. Love via Internet? 285
Tomáš Hudeček and Martin Vaculík
31. Virtual Attractivity and Partner Selection on the Internet 295
Martina Veselá and David Smahel
32. My Avatar, My Self:Virtual Harm and Attachment
Jessica Wolfendale
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33. The Internet Addiction Disorder and Chatting in the Czech Republic     3 I I
Sorfaora Šimková and Jan Cinčera
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34. The Virtual University as a Educative Change Engine 321
Miguel Angel Perez Alvarez
35. Good Morals and Upstanding Business Relationships within Cyberspace 325
Jaromír Harvánek and Hana Plátěnková
36. Crime Time in Cyberia: Legislative and Regulatory Aspects 331
Jha Samar and Aggarwal Manish