"In an era where IT changes constantly, a thoughtful response to these rapid changes requires a basic understanding of IT history, an awareness of current issues, and a familiarity with ethics. This book provides an overview of ethical theories and problems encountered by computer professionals in today's environment."--Provided by publisher.
The authors view in Ethics for the Information Age is that we ought to approach every new technology in a thoughtful manner, considering not just its short-term benefits, but also how its long-term use will affect our lives.
Ethics for the Information Age
An introduction to the social and policy issues which have arisen as a result of IT. Whilst it assumes a modest familiarity with computers, the book provides a guide to the issues suitable for undergraduates.
The book discusses the multiple issues of a digital research ethic in its interdisciplinary diversity.
Thematically organized around three of the most pressing ethical issues of the digital age (shifting of professional norms, moderating offensive content, and privacy), this volume offers a window into some of the hot-button ethical issues ...
The Government Factor: Undermining Journalistic Ethics in the Information Age
They Play to Kill.” In C. Christians, M. Fackler, K. B. Richardson, P. J. Kreshel, & R. H. Woods Jr., Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning, 9th ed. (pp. 265–267). Boston, MA: Pearson. Fahmy, Sahira, & Johnson, Thomas J. (2017).
Ethical Reasoning / Michael Boylan -- Nature' as a background condition / Michael Boylan -- Transformative technologies, the status quo and (religious) institutions / Morgan Luck and Stephen Clarke.
In this timely volume, Joel Rudinow and Anthony Graybosch have gathered together a set of readings that bridge the perceived gap between industrial age information systems--journalism and the mass media--and those emerging in the digital ...
Delving into the complexities of contemporary reportage, this book draws from moral philosophy and histories of photojournalism to understand the emergence of this distinct practice and discuss its evolution in a digital era.