Divided into three parts, The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics covers the foundational issues, including background on information technologies,information ethics, and computer ethics; substantive issues such as speech and information rights, intellectual property, information privacy, information security, and accountability on the Internet; and applied issues, including Spam, Internet research, regulation of the Internet, online file sharing, plagiarism on the web, online privacy, cyberterrorism, ethics and genetics, and ethical issues involving information and library professionals, health professionals, and business. INDICE: Foreword by Deborah G. Johnson. Preface. Contributors. Introduction by Kenneth Einar Himma and Herman T. Tavani. PART 1: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES ANDMETHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS. 1. Foundations of Information Ethics (Luciano Floridi). 2. Milestones in the History of Information Ethics (Terrell Ward Bynum).3. Moral Methodology and Information Technology (Jeroen van den Hoven). 4. Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems (Batya Friedman, Peter H. Kahn, and Alan Borning). PART 2: THEORETICAL ISSUES AFFECTING PROPERTY, PRIVACY, ANONYMITY, AND SECURITY. 5. Personality-Based, Rule Utilitarian, and Lockean Justifications. of Intellectual Property (Adam D. Moore). 6. Informational Privacy:Concepts, Theories, and Controversies (Herman T. Tavani). 7. Online Anonymity(Kathleen A. Wallace). 8. Ethical Issues Involving Computer Security: Hacking, Hacktivism, and Counterhacking (Kenneth Einar Himma). PART 3: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES AND THE INFORMATION-RELATED PROFESSIONS. 9. Information Ethics and the Library Profession (Kay Mathiesen and Don Fallis). 10. Ethical Interest in Freeand Open Source Software (Frances S. Grodzinsky and Marty J. Wolf). 11. Internet Research Ethics: The Field and its Critical Issues (Elizabeth A. Buchanan and Charles Ess). 12. Health Information Technology: Challenges in Ethics, Science, . and Uncertainty (Kenneth W. Goodman). 13. Ethical Issues of Information and Business: A Critical Perspective (Bernd Carsten Stahl). PART 4: RESPONSIBILITY ISSUES AND RISK ASSESSMENT. 14. Responsibilities for Information on theInternet (Anton Vedder). 15. Virtual Reality and Computer Simulation (Philip Brey). 16. Genetic Information: Epistemological and Ethical Issues (Antonio Marturano). 17. The Ethics of Cyber Conflict (Dorothy E. Denning). 18. A Practical Mechanism for Ethical Risk Assessment - A SoDIS Inspection (Don Gotterbarn,Tony Clear, and Choon-Tuck Kwan). PART 5: REGULATORY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES. 19. Regulation and Governance on the Internet (John Weckert and Yeslam Al-Saggaf). 20. Information Overload (David Levy). 21. Email Spam (Keith Miller and James H. Moor). 22. Plagiarism: What, Why, and If (John Snapper). 23. Intellectual Property: Legal and Moral Challenges of Online File Sharing (Richard A. Spinello). PART 6: ACCESS AND EQUITY ISSUES. 24. Censorship and Access to Information (Kay Mathiesen). 25. The Gender Agenda in (Information and) Computer Ethics Alison Adam). 26. The Digital Divide: Prospects for the Future (Maria Canellopoulou-Botti and Kenneth Einar Himma). 27. Intercultural Information Ethics (Rafael Capurro).
- ISBN: 978-0-471-79959-7
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 704
- Fecha Publicación: 13/06/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés