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"This book is the first publication that takes a genuinely global approach to the diverse ethical issues evoked by Information and Communication Technologies and their possible resolutions. Readers will gain a greater appreciation for the problems and possibilities of genuinely global informati...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Soraj Hongladarom, 1962-, Ess, Charles, 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hershey : Idea Group Reference, [2007]
Series:Premier reference source
Subjects:
Information technology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Business ethics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • SECTION I. THEORETICAL CONCERNS.
  • The moral status of information and information technologies: a relational theory of moral status / Johnny Hartz Soraker
  • Online communities, democratic ideals, and the digital divide / Frances S. Grodzinsky and Herman T. Tavani
  • The mediating effect of material cultures as human hybridization / Lorenzo Magnani
  • Culture and technology: a mutual-shaping approach / Thomas Herdin, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, and Ursula Maier-Rabler
  • Mobile phone and autonomy / Thaptawee Chokvasin
  • Invisability [i.e. Invisibility] and the ethics of digitalization: designing so as not to hurt others / Maja van der Velden
  • Privacy and property in the global datasphere / Dan L. Burk
  • Analysis and justification of privacy from a Buddhist perspective / Soraj Hongladarom
  • SECTION II. SPECIFIC VIEWPOINTS.
  • Information privacy in a surveillance state: a perspective from Thailand / Pirongrong Ramasoota Rananand
  • Interactions among Thai culture, ICT, and IT ethics / Pattarasinee Bhattarakosol
  • We cannot eat data: the need for computer ethics to address the cultural and ecological impacts of computing / Barbara Paterson
  • Current and future state of ICT deployment and utilization in healthcare: an analysis of cross-cultural ethical issues / Bernd Carsten Stahl, Simon Rogerson, and Amin Kashmeery
  • Business ethics and technology in Turkey: an emerging country at the crossroad of civilizations / Gonca Telli Yamamoto and Faruk Karaman
  • The existential significance of the digital divide for America's historically underserved populations / Lynette Kvasny.