The handbook of information and computer ethics

The handbook of information and computer ethics [electronic resource] / edited by Kenneth Einar Himma and Herman T. Tavani.

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Discover how developments in information technology are raising new ethical debates. Information and computer ethics has emerged as an important area of philosophical and social theorizing, combining conceptual, meta-ethical, normative, and applied elements. As a result, academic interest in this ar...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Wiley)
Other Authors: Himma, Kenneth Einar, Tavani, Herman T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2008.
Subjects:
Electronic data processing > Moral and ethical aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • PART I: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS
  • 1. Foundations of Information Ethics
  • 2. Milestones in the History of Information and Computer Ethics
  • 3. Moral Methodology and Information Technology
  • 4. Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems
  • PART II: THEORETICAL ISSUES AFFECTING PROPERTY, PRIVACY, ANONYMITY, AND SECURITY
  • 5. Personality-Based, Rule-Utilitarian, and Lockean Justifications of Intellectual Property
  • 6. Informational Privacy: Concepts, Theories, and Controversies
  • 7. Online Anonymity
  • 8. Ethical Issues Involving Computer Security: Hacking, Hacktivism, and Counterhacking
  • PART III: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES AND THE INFORMATION-RELATED PROFESSIONS
  • 9. Information Ethics and the Library Profession
  • 10. Ethical Interest in Free and Open Source Software
  • 11. Internet Research Ethics: The Field and Its Critical Issues
  • 12. Health Information Technology: Challenges in Ethics, Science, and Uncertainty
  • 13. Ethical Issues of Information and Business
  • PART IV: RESPONSIBILITY ISSUES AND RISK ASSESSMENT
  • 14. Responsibilities for Information on the Internet
  • 15. Virtual Reality and Computer Simulation
  • 16. Genetic Information: Epistemological and Ethical Issues
  • 17. The Ethics of Cyber Conflict
  • 18. A Practical Mechanism for Ethical Risk Assessment
  • A SoDIS Inspection
  • PART V: REGULATORY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
  • 19. Regulation and Governance of the Internet
  • 20. Information Overload
  • 21. Email Spam
  • 22. The Matter of Plagiarism: What, Why, and If
  • 23. Intellectual Property: Legal and Moral Challenges of Online File Sharing
  • PART VI: ACCESS AND EQUITY ISSUES
  • 24. Censorship and Access to Expression
  • 25. The Gender Agenda in Computer Ethics
  • 26. The Digital Divide: A Perspective for the Future
  • 27. Intercultural Information Ethics
  • Index.

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