Information technology ethics cultural perspectives /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Soraj Hongladarom, 1962-, Ess, Charles, 1951-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2007.
• Subjects: Information technology > Moral and ethical aspects.; Information technology > Cultural aspects.; Business ethics.; Business ethics and technology in Turkey; Cultural and ecological impacts of computing; Digital divide; Human hybridization; Healthcare and IT ethics; Information privacy and IT ethics in Thailand; Mobile phones and autonomy; Moral status; Online communities; Privacy and property
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"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 informati...

Table of 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.