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. Ethical Issues of Information Systems 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.
Salehnia (South Dakota State U.) presents 21 papers that explore philosophical issues of ethics as they relate to the use of the Internet and other information systems. Much of the material is directly related to issues of regulation and legislation, but more theoretical questions are also explored. Examples of specific topics include evaluating business ethics with an artificial neural networks application; copyright, piracy, and privacy; issues; the operation of Internet auction markets; the societal impact of the World Wide Web; information warfare; issues in software engineering; and the application of the thinking of Kierkegaard to the Internet. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
