Moral, ethical, and social dilemmas in the age of technology : theories and practice / Rocci Luppicini, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luppicini, Rocci.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Technology.

Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 355 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"This book highlights the innovations and developments in the ethical features of technology in society, bringing together research in the areas of computer, engineering, and biotechnical ethics"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Virtue and virtuality: technoethics, IT and the masters of the future / Miles Kennedy

Internet history / Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Laboring in cyberspace: a Lockean Theory of property in virtual worlds / Marcus Schulzke

Perverting activism: cyberactivism and its potential failures in enhancing democratic institutions / Tommaso Bertolotti, Emanuele Bardone, Lorenzo Magnani

On the moral equality of artificial agents / Christopher Wareham

Biometrics: an overview on new technologies and ethic problems / Halim Sayoud

On biometrics and profiling: a challenge for privacy and democracy? / Daniele Cantore

Cellular telephones and social interactions: evidence of interpersonal surveillance / Steven E. Stern, Benjamin E. Grounds

Socio-technical influences of cyber espionage: a case study of the GhostNet system / Xue Lin, Rocci Luppicini

The impact of context on employee perceptions of acceptable non-work related computing / Troy J. Strader ... [et al.]

Chicken killers or bandwidth patriots?: a case study of ethics in virtual reality / Kurt Reymers

Structural and technology-mediated violence: profiling and the urgent need of new tutelary technoknowledge / Lorenzo Magnani

Fairness and regulation of violence in technological design / Cameron Shelley

Unintended affordances as violent mediators: maladaptive effects of technologically enriched human niches / Emanuele Bardone

Infosphere to ethosphere: moral mediators in the nonviolent transformation of self and world / Jeffrey Benjamin White

Facebook has it: the irresistible violence of social cognition in the age of social networking / Tommaso Bertolotti

Technoethics and the state of science and technology studies (STS) in Canada / Rocci Luppicini

College students, piracy, and ethics: is there a teachable moment? / Jeffrey Reiss, Rosa Cintrón

Boys with toys and fearful parents?: the pedagogical dimensions of the discourse in technology ethics / Albrecht Fritzsche

Without informed consent / Sara Belfrage

The middle ground for nuclear waste management: social and ethical aspects of shallow storage / Alan Marshall.

Notes:

"Premier reference source"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed December 17, 2012).

ISBN:

9781466629325 (ebook)

OCLC:

830512143