Ethical issues of information systems
Title:
Ethical issues of information systems
Author:
Salehnia, Ali, 1952-
ISBN:
9781931777278
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2002.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (vii, 301 p. : ill.) : digital files.
Contents:
1. Internet privacy : interpreting key issues / Gurpreet S. Dhillon and Trevor T. Moores -- 2. One size does not fit all : potential diseconomies in global information systems / Gerald Grant -- 3. Some Internet and e-commerce legal perspectives impacting the end user / Peter P. Mykytyn, Jr. -- 4. A new approach to evaluating business ethics : an artificial neural networks application / Mo Adam Mahmood, Gary L. Sullivan and Ray-Lin Tung -- 5. Copyright, piracy, privacy And security issues : acceptable or unacceptable actions for end users? / Jennifer Kreie and Timothy Paul Cronan -- 6. Ten lessons that Internet auction markets can learn from securities market automation / J. Christopher Westland -- 7. The societal impact of the World Wide Web : key challenges for the 21st century / Janice M. Burn, Karen D. Loch -- 8. Method over mayhem in managing e-commerce risk / Dieter Fink -- 9. Why do we do it if we know it's wrong? : a structural model of software piracy / Darryl A. Seale -- 10. Ethical issues in software engineering revisited / Ali Salehnia, Hassan Pournaghshband -- 11. Cyberspace ethics and information warfare / Matthew Warren, William Hutchinson -- 12. A conversation regarding ethics in information systems educational research / Mark Campbell Williams -- 13. Software piracy : are Robin Hood and responsibility denial at work? / Susan J. Harrington --
14. Social issues in electronic commerce : implications for policy makers / Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou and Athanasia Pouloudi -- 15. Kierkegaard and the Internet : the role and formation of community in education / Andrew Ward, Brian Prosser -- 16. Manufacturing social responsibility benchmarks in the competitive intelligence age / James Douglas Orton -- 17. Strategic and ethical issues in outsourcing information technologies / Randall C. Reid, Mario Pascalev -- 18. Ethics, authenticity and emancipation in information systems development / Stephen K. Probert -- 19. On the role of human morality in information system security : from the problems of descriptivism to non-descriptive foundations / Mikko T. Siponen -- 20. The government "downunder" attempts to censor the net / Geoffrey A. Sandy -- 21. The genetic revolution : ethical implications for the 21st century / Atefeh Sadri McCampbell, Linda Moorhead Clare.
Abstract:
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. This title 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.
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