Social, ethical, and policy implications of information technology

Section I. Social implicaitons. Global perspectives on the information society / William J. McIver, Jr. ; Digital divides: their social and ethical implications / Emma Rooksby, John Weckert ; The perils of access and immediacy: unintended consequences of information technology / Linda L. Brennan ; What, me, worry? The empowerment of employees / Marsha Cook Woodbury ; Managing workplace privacy responsibly / Richard A. Spinello, John Gallaugher, Sandra Waddock ; Virtual harms and real responsibility / Chuck Huff, Deborah G. Johnson, Keith W. Miller

Ethical implications. Ethical challenges for information systems professionals / Gerald M. Hoffman ; Living within glass houses: coping with organizational transparency / Victoria E. Johnson ; Ethical challenges of information systems: the carnage of outsourcing and other technology-enabled organizational imperatives / David Wiencek ; A contrarian's view: new wine in old bottles, new economy and old ethics-can it work? / Marianne M. Jennings

Policy implications. Liability for system and data quality / Robert D. Sprague ; Software engineering as a profession: a moral case for licensure / J. Carl Ficarrotta ; Copyright law in the digital age / Jordan M. Blanke ; 'Digital orphans': technology's wayward children / Mark Kieler, Michael J. West ; Compliance with data management laws / Jack S. Cook, Laura L. Cook

Further implications. The central problem in cyber ethics and how stories can be used to address it / John M. Artz.