Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age

by Joseph Migga Kizza

This new edition examines the ethical, social, and policy challenges stemming from computing and telecommunication technology, and mobile information-enabling devices.
establishes a philosophical framework and analytical tools for discussing moral theories and problems in ethical relativism; offers pertinent discussions on privacy, surveillance, employee monitoring, biometrics, civil liberties, harassment, the digital divide, and discrimination; examines the new ethical, cultural and economic realities of computer social networks; reviews issues of property rights, responsibility and accountability relating to IT and software; discusses how virtualization technology informs ethical behavior; introduces the frontiers of ethics in VR, AI, and the Internet; surveys the social, moral and ethical value systems in mobile telecommunications; explores the evolution of electronic crime, network security, and computer forensics; provides exercises, objectives, and issues for discussion in every chapter.

380 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definitions for crucial concepts in Ethics are cited from wikipedia and encyclopadias (instead Hume, Kant, Lock, Aristotle).