IT Ethics

"Every mean, vicious psychopath once upon a time, was an innocent young baby," said Dr. Adrian Raine, a neurocriminologist at the University of Pennsylvania

Vietnam's government has issued several decrees in recent months to curtail blogging, as the number of Internet users soars in the communist country.\n\nThe campaign started in August, when the government published an edict giving police broad authority to move against online critics, including those who oppose "the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam" and undermine national security and social order.

Here's an excellent discussion by Lawrence Lessig on the creeping nature of regulation through copyright. Quite apart from anything else it's an amazing use of presentation software. (Evolving Thoughts)

This section contains links to a variety of scenarios of ethical and unethical technology use by students. The scenarios will include discussion questions and brief commentary.

The purpose of this page is to provide resources for the various instructional units/cases presented in Information Technology Ethics. Because of the extensive references, these references will be segmented into indidivual pages.

»To provide information on Information Systems Ethics (Cyberethics) including content, delivery,and pedagogy. »To provide links to on-line information resources and courses that may be of interest to academics, practitioners, and the general public. »To provide a forum for discussion and assistance on issues and topics of interest relative to computer or information ethics.

Information technology is changing many aspects of human endeavor and existence. This is beyond doubt. What are contested are the social and ethical implications of these changes. The source of these contestations is the multiple ways in which one can conceptualize and interpret the information technology/society interrelationship. Each of these ways of conceptualization and interpretation enables one to see the information technology/society relationship differently and therefore construe its social and ethical implications in a different manner. This entry is concerned with the phenomenological approach to interpreting information technology and its social and ethical implications. However, in order to understand the distinctiveness of the phenomenological approach some other possible ways of interpreting this relationship will also be outlined briefly.

The following links have been furnished as a starting point to help members of the CSM community learn more about CSM policies and the ethical issues associated with the use of information technologies in our society.

The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics offers the following resources on current ethical issues in technology:

10-minute documentary on network neutrality.