Ethical and social issues in the information age / / Joseph Migga Kizza

• Autore: Kizza Joseph Migga
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Springer, , 1998; ©1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIV, 172 p.)
• Disciplina: 004
• Soggetto topico: Information technology - Moral and ethical aspects; Information technology - Social aspects; Computers - Moral and ethical aspects; Computers and civilization
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 Morality and the Law -- 2 Ethics, Technology, and Values -- 3 Ethics and the Professions -- 4 Anonymity, Security, and Privacy -- 5 Intellectual Property Rights and Computer Technology -- 6 Computer-Augmented Environments: The Workplace -- 7 Software Issues -- 8 New Frontiers for Ethical Considerations: Artificial Intelligence, Cyberspace, and Virtual Reality -- 9 Ethical and Social Issues in Cyberspace.
• Sommario/riassunto: Computer technology, barely fifty years old, has enormously transformed human society. The computer revolution, as many have termed it, is quietly but surely affecting every human being on earth in a multitude of ways. Both large and small institutions and indi­ viduals from all walks of life have come to rely on information, more so today than ever before. Although experiences on the whole have been positive thus far, troubling ethical and social issues are coming to our attention. The security of information we all have come to rely on is no longer guaranteed; individual norms of conduct and ethical behavior are changing. Computer technological development is outpacing the ability of our legal sys­ tems. Traditional ethical issues like security, privacy, integrity, responsibility, anonymity, property rights, and related social concerns are also greatly affected by our highly tech­ nological environment. Many ethical questions that used to be answered easily have become more compli­ cated. Like symptoms of a disease, if these concerns are not diagnosed and treated in a timely fashion, they may become untreatable and eventually wreak havoc on human lives. The book analyzes the effects of computer technology on traditional ethical and so­ cial issues. In particular, I explore the consequences of relatively new computer tech­ nologies such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and the Internet. • Chapter 1 defines and examines personal and public morality, the law (both conven­ tional and natural law), and the intertwining of morality and the law.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethical and social issues in the information age
• ISBN: 1-4757-2950-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823188403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Undergraduate texts in computer science.