Ethics and Technology: Controversies, Questions, and Strategies for Ethical Computing

Ethics and Technology: Controversies, Questions, and Strategies for Ethical Computing

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<p>The Fourth Edition of <i>Ethics and Technology</i> introduces students to issues and controversies that comprise the relatively new field of <i>cyberethics</i>. This textbook examines a wide range of cyberethics issues--from specific issues of moral responsibility to broader social and ethical concerns that affect each of us in our day-to-day lives. Recent developments in machine ethics should also cause students to consider questions about conventional conceptions of autonomy and trust. Such topics and many other engaging ethical controversies--both hypothetical and actual cases--are discussed in this widely used and respected text.</p> <p><b>Updates to the 4th Edition include</b></p> <ul> <li>New or updated <i>scenarios</i> in each chapter </li> <li>New <i>sample arguments</i> in many chapters, which enable students to apply the tools for argument analysis covered in Chapter 3 </li> <li>Newly designed set of study/exercise questions call <i>Unalyzed Scenarios</i> in each chapter, which can be used for either in-class group projects or outside class assignments </li> <li>Additional review, discussion, and essay/presentation questions at the end of many chapters </li> </ul> <br /> <div><b>New Issues Examined and Analyzed include</b></div> <div> <ul> <li>Ethical and social aspects of Cloud Computing, including concerns about the privacy and security of users' data that is increasingly being stored in "the Cloud" </li> <li>Concerns about the increasing "personalization" of search results based on queries entered by users on search engines such as Google </li> <li>Controversies surrounding Wikileaks and the tension it creates between free speech and responsible journalism </li> <li>Concerns affecting "net neutrality" and whether Internet regulation may be required to ensure that service providers on the Internet do not also unduly control the content delivered via their services </li> <li>Recent controversies affecting "machine ethics" and the development of "moral machines" or autonomous systems that will be embedded with software designed for making moral decisions </li> <li>Questions about our conventional notions of autonomy and trust--can machines be autonomous? Can we trust machines to act in ways that will always be in the best interest of humans? </li> </ul> </div>