The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

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This handbook provides an accessible overview of the most important issues in information and computer ethics. It covers: foundational issues and methodological frameworks; theoretical issues affecting property, privacy, anonymity, and security; professional issues and the information-related professions; responsibility issues and risk assessment; regulatory issues and challenges; access and equity issues. Each chapter explains and evaluates the central positions and arguments on the respective issues, and ends with a bibliography that identifies the most important supplements available on the topic. THE HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTER ETHICS......Page 4 CONTENTS......Page 10 Foreword......Page 14 Preface......Page 16 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 18 Contributors......Page 20 Introduction......Page 26 PART I: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS......Page 36 1. Foundations of Information Ethics......Page 38 2. Milestones in the History of Information and Computer Ethics......Page 60 3. Moral Methodology and Information Technology......Page 84 4. Value Sensitive Design and Information Systems......Page 104 PART II: THEORETICAL ISSUES AFFECTING PROPERTY, PRIVACY, ANONYMITY, AND SECURITY......Page 138 5. Personality-Based, Rule-Utilitarian, and Lockean Justifications of Intellectual Property......Page 140 6. Informational Privacy: Concepts, Theories, and Controversies......Page 166 7. Online Anonymity......Page 200 8. Ethical Issues Involving Computer Security: Hacking, Hacktivism, and Counterhacking......Page 226 PART III: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES AND THE INFORMATION-RELATED PROFESSIONS......Page 254 9. Information Ethics and the Library Profession......Page 256 10. Ethical Interest in Free and Open Source Software......Page 280 11. Internet Research Ethics: The Field and Its Critical Issues......Page 308 12. Health Information Technology: Challenges in Ethics, Science, and Uncertainty......Page 328 13. Ethical Issues of Information and Business......Page 346 PART IV: RESPONSIBILITY ISSUES AND RISK ASSESSMENT......Page 372 14. Responsibilities for Information on the Internet......Page 374 15. Virtual Reality and Computer Simulation......Page 396 16. Genetic Information: Epistemological and Ethical Issues......Page 420 17. The Ethics of Cyber Conflict......Page 442 18. A Practical Mechanism for Ethical Risk Assessment – A SoDIS Inspection......Page 464 PART V: REGULATORY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES......Page 508 19. Regulation and Governance of the Internet......Page 510 20. Information Overload......Page 532 21. Email Spam......Page 552 22. The Matter of Plagiarism: What, Why, and If......Page 568 23. Intellectual Property: Legal and Moral Challenges of Online File Sharing......Page 588 PART VI: ACCESS AND EQUITY ISSUES......Page 606 24. Censorship and Access to Expression......Page 608 25. The Gender Agenda in Computer Ethics......Page 624 26. The Digital Divide: A Perspective for the Future......Page 656 27. Intercultural Information Ethics......Page 674 Index......Page 702