Ethics and Technology: Controversies, Questions, and Strategies for Ethical Computing, 4th Edition - Softcover

Tavani, Herman T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118281721 ISBN 13: 9781118281727

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, 2012

Synopsis

The Fourth Edition of Ethics and Technology introduces students to issues and controversies that comprise the relatively new field of cyberethics. This textbook examines a wide range of cyberethics issues--from specific issues of moral responsibility to broader social and ethical concerns that affect each of us in our day-to-day lives. Recent developments in machine ethics should also cause students to consider questions about conventional conceptions of autonomy and trust. Such topics and many other engaging ethical controversies--both hypothetical and actual cases--are discussed in this widely used and respected text.

Updates to the 4th Edition include

• New or updated scenarios in each chapter
• New sample arguments in many chapters, which enable students to apply the tools for argument analysis covered in Chapter 3
• Newly designed set of study/exercise questions call Unalyzed Scenarios in each chapter, which can be used for either in-class group projects or outside class assignments
• Additional review, discussion, and essay/presentation questions at the end of many chapters

New Issues Examined and Analyzed include

• Ethical and social aspects of Cloud Computing, including concerns about the privacy and security of users' data that is increasingly being stored in "the Cloud"
• Concerns about the increasing "personalization" of search results based on queries entered by users on search engines such as Google
• Controversies surrounding Wikileaks and the tension it creates between free speech and responsible journalism
• Concerns affecting "net neutrality" and whether Internet regulation may be required to ensure that service providers on the Internet do not also unduly control the content delivered via their services
• Recent controversies affecting "machine ethics" and the development of "moral machines" or autonomous systems that will be embedded with software designed for making moral decisions
• Questions about our conventional notions of autonomy and trust--can machines be autonomous? Can we trust machines to act in ways that will always be in the best interest of humans?

About this title

About the Author:

Herman T. Tavani is Professor of Philosophy at Rivier College and Co-Director of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT). He is the author, editor, or co-editor of five books on ethical aspects of information technology.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1118281721
• ISBN 13: 9781118281727
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 464