ICT 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cyberethics, Applied Ethics, Moral Authority

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Information Communication Technology
• Course: ICT 205
• Professor: Bryce Newell

Document Summary

Ethics: moral principles that govern a person"s behavior or the conducting of an activity. The discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation: a set of moral principles: a theory or system of moral values. The application of ethics to decision-making about questions confronting information professionals. Information and computing ethics: developing new ethical frameworks for new technologies. Cyberethics: the field that examines moral issues involving cybertechnology . Computer ethics: moral issues pertaining to computing and information technology. Information ethics: a cluster of ethical concerns regarding the flow of information that is either enhanced or restricted by computer technology. Information ethics refers to the application of normative ethical theory and methods to questions of information ownership, access, and control. Information ethics encompasses several distinct, yet interrelated disciplines including applied ethics, intellectual property, privacy, free speech, and societal control of information.