Computer Ethics

Description: The study of the ethical issues related to computer use developed primarily in the 1980s, although a number of important papers were published in previous decades, many of which are contained in this volume. Computer ethics, as the field became known, flourished in the following decades. The emphasis initially was more on the computing profession: on questions related to the development of systems, the behaviour of computing professionals and so on. Later the focus moved to the Internet and to users of computer and related communication technologies. This book reflects these different emphases and has articles on most of the important issues, organised into sections on the history and nature of computer ethics, cyberspace, values and technology, responsibility and professionalism, privacy and surveillance, what computers should not do and morality and machines. On the impact of the computer on society: how does one insult a machine? Joseph Weizenbaum (1972) What is computer ethics? James H. Moor (1985)4 ethical issues of the information age, Richard O. Mason (1986) Is there an ethics of computing? Geoffrey Brown (1991) The use and abuse of computer ethics, Donald Gotterbarn (1992) Information ethics: on the philosophical foundations of computer ethics, Luciano Floridi (1999). Part II Cyberspace: Balancing intellectual property rights and the intellectual commons: a Lockean analysis, Herman T. Tavani (2004) What is so bad about internet content regulation? John Weckert (2000) Unreal friends, Dean Cocking and Steve Matthews (2001) Developing trust on the internet, Victoria McGreer (2004) The computer revolution and the problem of global ethics, Krystyna Gorniak-Kocikowska (1996) Computer-mediated colonization, the renaissance, and educational imperatives for an intercultural global village, Charles Ess (2002) Shaping the web: why the politics of search engines matters, Lucas D. Introna and Helen Nissenbaum (2000) Part III Values and Technology: Do artefacts have politics?, Langdon Winner (1980)Towards ethical principles for designing politico-administrative information systems, M.J. van den Hoven (1994)Bias in computer systems, Batya Friedman and Helen Nissenbaum (1996) Method in computer ethics: towards a multi-level interdisciplinary approach, Philip Brey (2000). Part IV Responsibility and Professionalism: Human agency and responsible computing: implications for computer system design,