Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age (Texts in Computer Science)

Kizza, Joseph Migga

ISBN 10: 1447149890 / ISBN 13: 9781447149897

Published by Springer (edition 5th ed. 2013), 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age (Texts in Computer Science)
• Publisher: Springer (edition 5th ed. 2013)
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447149890
• ISBN 13: 9781447149897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 5th ed. 2013.
• Condition: Fair

About this title

Synopsis

This new edition examines the ethical, social, and policy challenges stemming from computing and telecommunication technology, and mobile information-enabling devices. 

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.

About the Author

Dr. Joseph Migga Kizza is Professor and Director of the Center for Information Security and Assurance at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA.  He is also the author of the successful Springer title Guide to Computer Network Security, now into its second edition.