This handbook provides an accessible overview of the most important issues in information and computer ethics. It covers: foundational issues and methodological frameworks; theoretical issues affecting property, privacy, anonymity, and security; professional issues and the information-related professions; responsibility issues and risk assessment; regulatory issues and challenges; access and equity issues. Each chapter explains and evaluates the central positions and arguments on the respective issues, and ends with a bibliography that identifies the most important supplements available on the topic.
Author(s): Kenneth E. Himma, Herman T. Tavani
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Year: 2008
Language: English
Commentary: +OCR
Pages: 706
THE HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTER ETHICS......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 10
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 18
Contributors......Page 20
Introduction......Page 26
PART I: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS......Page 36
1. Foundations of Information Ethics......Page 38
2. Milestones in the History of Information and Computer Ethics......Page 60
3. Moral Methodology and Information Technology......Page 84
4. Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems......Page 104
PART II: THEORETICAL ISSUES AFFECTING PROPERTY, PRIVACY, ANONYMITY, AND SECURITY......Page 138
5. Personality-Based, Rule-Utilitarian, and Lockean Justifications of Intellectual Property......Page 140
6. Informational Privacy: Concepts, Theories, and Controversies......Page 166
7. Online Anonymity......Page 200
8. Ethical Issues Involving Computer Security: Hacking, Hacktivism, and Counterhacking......Page 226
PART III: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES AND THE INFORMATION-RELATED PROFESSIONS......Page 254
9. Information Ethics and the Library Profession......Page 256
10. Ethical Interest in Free and Open Source Software......Page 280
11. Internet Research Ethics: The Field and Its Critical Issues......Page 308
12. Health Information Technology: Challenges in Ethics, Science, and Uncertainty......Page 328
13. Ethical Issues of Information and Business......Page 346
PART IV: RESPONSIBILITY ISSUES AND RISK ASSESSMENT......Page 372
14. Responsibilities for Information on the Internet......Page 374
15. Virtual Reality and Computer Simulation......Page 396
16. Genetic Information: Epistemological and Ethical Issues......Page 420
17. The Ethics of Cyber Conflict......Page 442
18. A Practical Mechanism for Ethical Risk Assessment – A SoDIS Inspection......Page 464
PART V: REGULATORY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES......Page 508
19. Regulation and Governance of the Internet......Page 510
20. Information Overload......Page 532
21. Email Spam......Page 552
22. The Matter of Plagiarism: What, Why, and If......Page 568
23. Intellectual Property: Legal and Moral Challenges of Online File Sharing......Page 588
PART VI: ACCESS AND EQUITY ISSUES......Page 606
24. Censorship and Access to Expression......Page 608
25. The Gender Agenda in Computer Ethics......Page 624
26. The Digital Divide: A Perspective for the Future......Page 656
27. Intercultural Information Ethics......Page 674
Index......Page 702
