Information technology ethics cultural perspectives
Title:
Information technology ethics cultural perspectives
Author:
Soraj Hongladarom, 1962-
ISBN:
9781599043128
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2007.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (xxxv, 222 p. : ill. (some col.)) : digital files.
Contents:
1. The moral status of information and information technologies: a relational theory of moral status / Johnny Hartz Soraker -- 2. Online communities, democratic ideals, and the digital divide / Frances S. Grodzinsky and Herman T. Tavani -- 3. The mediating effect of material cultures as human hybridization / Lorenzo Magnani -- 4. Culture and technology: a mutual-shaping approach / Thomas Herdin, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, and Ursula Maier-Rabler -- 5. Mobile phone and autonomy / Thaptawee Chokvasin -- 6. Invisability [i.e. Invisibility] and the ethics of digitalization : designing so as not to hurt others / Maja van der Velden -- 7. Privacy and property in the global datasphere / Dan L. Burk -- 8. Analysis and justification of privacy from a Buddhist perspective / Soraj Hongladarom -- 9. Information privacy in a surveillance state : a perspective from Thailand / Pirongrong Ramasoota Rananand -- 10. Interactions among Thai culture, ICT, and IT ethics / Pattarasinee Bhattarakosol -- 11. We cannot eat data : the need for computer ethics to address the cultural and ecological impacts of computing / Barbara Paterson -- 12. 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 -- 13. Business ethics and technology in Turkey : an emerging country at the crossroad of civilizations / Gonca Telli Yamamoto and Faruk Karaman -- 14. The existential significance of the digital divide for America's historically underserved populations / Lynette Kvasny.
Abstract:
"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 information ethics, which are urgently needed as information and communication technologies continue their exponential growth"--Provided by publisher.
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Electronic Access:
Chapter PDFs via platform: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-59904-310-4