Ethical Issues of Information Systems / Edition 1

by Salehnia

Overview

Understanding, appreciating and taking corrective steps to maintain and enhance social and ethical responsibility in the information age is important not only because of our increased dependence on information and communication technologies, but also because information and communication technologies pose complex challenges. Ethical Issues of Information Systems strives to address these pertinent issues. This scholarly and academic book provides insight on many topics of debate and discussion in the field and lends the most recent research in the field of IT ethics and social responsibility.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781931777155
Publisher:	IGI-Global
Publication date:	04/01/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.98(w) x 10.04(h) x 0.73(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	i
	Preface	iii
Chapter 1.	Internet Privacy: Interpreting Key Issues	1
Chapter 2.	One Size Does Not Fit All: Potential Diseconomies in Global Information Systems	10
Chapter 3.	Some Internet and E-Commerce Legal Perspectives Impacting the End User	16
Chapter 4.	A New Approach to Evaluating Business Ethics: An Artificial Neural Networks Application	23
Chapter 5.	Copyright, Piracy, Privacy And Security Issues: Acceptable Or Unacceptable Actions For End Users?	40
Chapter 6.	Ten Lessons that Internet Auction Markets Can Learn from Securities Market Automation	57
Chapter 7.	The Societal Impact of the World Wide Web--Key Challenges for the 21st Century	88
Chapter 8.	Method over Mayhem in Managing e-Commerce Risk	107
Chapter 9.	Why Do We Do It If We Know It's Wrong? A Structural Model of Software Piracy	120
Chapter 10.	Ethical Issues in Software Engineering Revisited	145
Chapter 11.	Cyberspace Ethics and Information Warfare	154
Chapter 12.	A Conversation Regarding Ethics In Information Systems Educational Research	164
Chapter 13.	Software Piracy: Are Robin Hood and Responsibility Denial at Work?	177
Chapter 14.	Social Issues in Electronic Commerce: Implications for Policy Makers	189
Chapter 15.	Kierkegaard and the Internet: The Role and Formation of Community in Education	207
Chapter 16.	Manufacturing Social Responsibility Benchmarks in the Competitive Intelligence Age	215
Chapter 17.	Strategic and Ethical Issues in Outsourcing Information Technologies	232
Chapter 18.	Ethics, Authenticity and Emancipation in Information Systems Development	249
Chapter 19.	On the Role of Human Morality in Information System Security: From the Problems of Descriptivism to Non-Descriptive Foundations	255
Chapter 20.	The Government "Downunder" Attempts to Censor the Net	272
Chapter 21.	The Genetic Revolution: Ethical Implications for the 21st Century	288
	About the Editor	296
	Index	297

Editorial Reviews

Salehnia (South Dakota State U.) presents 21 papers that explore philosophical issues of ethics as they relate to the use of the Internet and other information systems. Much of the material is directly related to issues of regulation and legislation, but more theoretical questions are also explored. Examples of specific topics include evaluating business ethics with an artificial neural networks application; copyright, piracy, and privacy; issues; the operation of Internet auction markets; the societal impact of the World Wide Web; information warfare; issues in software engineering; and the application of the thinking of Kierkegaard to the Internet. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR