Ethics for the Information Age - Softcover

Quinn, Michael J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321194349 ISBN 13: 9780321194343

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2004

Synopsis

This book provides modern coverage of the ethics that surround information technology. It offers readers a timely, balanced, and impartial treatment of computer ethics. It introduces ethical theories early and uses them throughout the book to evaluate moral problems related to information technology. Earlier chapters focus on issues concerned with the individual computer user including, email, spam, intellectual property, open source movement, free speech, and Web censorship. Later chapters focus on issues with greater impact on society as a whole such as privacy, computer and network security, and computer error. The final chapter discusses professionalism and the Software Engineering Code of Ethics. All users of technology who are concerned with understanding the legal, moral, and ethical decisions surrounding that technology.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael J. Quinn is a professor of computer science at Oregon State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0321194349
• ISBN 13: 9780321194343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 456