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Ethics, Information and Technology: Readings

Name: Ethics, Information and Technology: Readings
Author: Richard N. Stichler
ISBN: 9780786440955

by Richard N. Stichler, Robert Hauptman

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Overview

Leaders in the emerging field of information ethics discuss five topics: freedom of information and the pursuit of knowledge; information, technology and education; information, rights and social justice; ethics and the Internet; and professional ethics. The essays have been drawn from many periodicals, including Library Journal, Daedalus, The Nation, Journal of Information Ethics and Wired.

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Public Libraries

A major contribution to the growing body of literature that seeks to define and expand information age paradigms...find space for this one.

About the Author, Richard N. Stichler

Richard N. Stichler is a professor of philosophy at Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania. Robert Hauptman, retired as an associate professor and librarian at St. Cloud (Minnesota) State University, is the editor of Journal of Information Ethics.

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Editorials

Library Journal

Recommended.

LISCA

Introduc[es] the reader to a varied set of complex issues, and to some of the more thoughtful writers who have addressed those issues.

Public Libraries

A major contribution to the growing body of literature that seeks to define and expand information age paradigms...find space for this one.

Booknews

Comprises a collection of 21 essays in which leaders and icons in the field of information ethics discuss the challenges associated with advances in technology. The essays are divided into five subject areas: freedom of information and the pursuit of knowledge; information, technology, and education; information, rights, and social justice; ethics and the Internet; and professional ethics. Authors range from John Stuart Mill to the ACLU's Nadine Strossen. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.