Overview
- Provides a wide-ranging survey of the impact of new technologies on ethical and social issues
- Written specifically for undergraduates
- Thoroughly revised and enhanced new edition, with new chapters on social networks, mobile telecommunications and virtualization technology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Texts in Computer Science (TCS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Features: 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.
Reviews
From the reviews of the fifth edition:
“The book’s 16 chapters start with the history of computing for some reason, along with superficial chapters on morality, law, and ethics. … This book is clearly useful as an introductory textbook. … End-of-chapter references and suggestions for further reading are extensive and helpful in a classroom setting, as are end-of-chapter exercises.” (David Bellin, Computing Reviews, February, 2014)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age
Authors: Joseph Migga Kizza
Series Title: Texts in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4990-3
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2013
Series ISSN: 1868-0941
Series E-ISSN: 1868-095X
Edition Number: 5
Number of Pages: XVIII, 372
Topics: Computers and Society, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Cryptology, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Social Sciences, general, Philosophy of Technology