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Information technology professionals must not only have a strong understanding of the latest technology, but they also need to be grounded in ethics. The third edition provides them with the information they need to succeed in the field. Each chapter is updated with new case studies and scenarios to provide the most current information. Review and discussion questions are included to reinforce key concepts. The in-text citations and references are revised to offer additional resources. Updated material is also presented on online communities and democracy, globalization and job outsourcing, security for wireless networking, and international cybercrime legislation. This enables information technology professionals to apply the concepts with a focus on ethics.

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• 1 Introduction to Cyberethics: Concepts, Perspectives, and Methodological Frameworks
• 2 Ethical Concepts and Ethical Theory: Establishing and Justifying A Moral System
• 3 Critical Thinking Skills and Logical Arguments: Tools For Evaluating Cyberethics Issues
• 4 Professional Ethics, Codes of Conduct, and Moral Responsibility
• 5 Privacy and Cyberspace
• 6 Security in Cyberspace
• 7 Cybercrime and Cyberrelated Crimes
• 8 Intellectual Property Disputes in Cyberspace
• 9 Regulating Commerce and Speech in Cyberspace
• 10 Social Inclusion, the Digital Divide, and the Transformation of Work: The Impact for Class, Race and Gender
• 11 Community and Identity in Cyberspace: Ethical Aspects of Virtual-Reality and Artificial-Intelligence Technologies
• 12 Pervasive Computing and Converging Technologies: Ethical Aspects of Ambient Intelligence, Bioinformatics, and Nanocomputing
• Glossary
• Index

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Herman T. Tavani, Ph.D ., is Professor of Philosophy at River College (New Hampshire) and President of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT). He is the author, editor, or coeditor of five books on ethical and social aspects of information technology.