UID:
almafu_9959328515102883
Format:
1 online resource (xxxi, 671 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
0470281804
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9780470281802
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0470281804
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9780470281819
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0470281812
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1281732656
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9781281732651
Content:
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 area has increased dramatically, particularly in computer science, philosophy, and communications departments; business schools; information and library schools; and law schools. The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics responds to this growing interest with twenty-seven chapters that address b.
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Handbook of information and computer ethics. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2008
Language:
English
Subjects:
Computer Science
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470281819
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470281819
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470281819
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470281819
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