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Summary
Summary
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 Notes
Kenneth Einar HIMMA, PhD, JD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Seattle Pacific University. His research interests include legal philosophy, applied ethics, information ethics, and computer ethics. Dr. Himma has authored more than 100 scholarly articles, encyclopedia entries, book reviews, and op-ed newspaper pieces, as well as a book, Internet Security: Hacking, Counterhacking, and Society.
Herman T. Tavani, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy at Rivier College (New Hampshire) and President of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT). He also holds appointments as a visiting lecturer at Boston College and as a visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health. Professor Tavani is the author, editor, or coeditor of five books, including Ethics and Technology (Wiley), now in its second edition.
Reviews 1
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Editors Himma (Pacific Univ.) and Tavani (Rivier College) have compiled 27 articles by recognized contributing authors such as Philip Brey, Don Gotterbarn, David Levy, and Richard Spinello in this well-written, thorough handbook. The work is divided into six parts addressing methodologies, theories, professional issues, assessment, regulatory issues, and equity. Tavani is well known for his information ethics textbooks, and his expertise in this source is evident. Early chapters cover the expected topics of historical milestones from the field, privacy, hacking, business ethics, and other "cyberethical" issues. More surprising is the generous coverage of oft-overlooked or scarcely mentioned topics in chapters such as "Information Overload," "The Matter of Plagiarism," "The Gender Agenda in Computer Ethics," and "Intercultural Information Ethics." Although each contributor's writing style is obvious, the sectional layout of the text is consistent from article to article, each beginning with an introduction, offering a conclusion for cursory review, and providing references for further study. The writing is densely packed with only a few illustrations or tables offered; however, the reading level is appropriate for the designated audience. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections. B. G. Turner Faulkner University
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Contributors | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. xxiii |
| Part I Foundational Issues and Methodological Frameworks | p. 1 |
| 1 Foundations of Information Ethics | p. 3 |
| 2 Milestones in the History of Information and Computer Ethics | p. 25 |
| 3 Moral Methodology and Information Technology | p. 49 |
| 4 Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems | p. 69 |
| Part II Theoretical Issues Affecting Property, Privacy, Anonymity, and Security | p. 103 |
| 5 Personality-Based, Rule-Utilitarian, and Lockean Justifications of Intellectual Property | p. 105 |
| 6 Informational Privacy: Concepts, Theories, and Controversies | p. 131 |
| 7 Online Anonymity | p. 165 |
| 8 Ethical Issues Involving Computer Security: Hacking, Hacktivism, and Counterhacking | p. 191 |
| Part III Professional Issues and the Information-Related Professions | p. 219 |
| 9 Information Ethics and the Library Profession | p. 221 |
| 10 Ethical Interest in Free and Open Source Software | p. 245 |
| 11 Internet Research Ethics: The Field and Its Critical Issues | p. 273 |
| 12 Health Information Technology: Challenges in Ethics, Science, and Uncertainty | p. 293 |
| 13 Ethical Issues of Information and Business | p. 311 |
| Part IV Responsibility Issues and Risk Assessment | p. 337 |
| 14 Responsibilities for Information on the Internet | p. 339 |
| 15 Virtual Reality and Computer Simulation | p. 361 |
| 16 Genetic Information: Epistemological and Ethical Issues | p. 385 |
| 17 The Ethics of Cyber Conflict | p. 407 |
| 18 A Practical Mechanism for Ethical Risk Assessment - A SoDIS Inspection | p. 429 |
| Part V Regulatory Issues and Challenges | p. 473 |
| 19 Regulation and Governance of the Internet | p. 475 |
| 20 Information Overload | p. 497 |
| 21 Email Spam | p. 517 |
| 22 The Matter of Plagiarism: What, Why, and If | p. 533 |
| 23 Intellectual Property: Legal and Moral Challenges of Online File Sharing | p. 553 |
| Part VI Access and Equity Issues | p. 571 |
| 24 Censorship and Access to Expression | p. 573 |
| 25 The Gender Agenda in Computer Ethics | p. 589 |
| 26 The Digital Divide: A Perspective for the Future | p. 621 |
| 27 Intercultural Information Ethics | p. 639 |
| Index | p. 667 |
