ITM 407 Study Guide - Cyberethics, Computer Ethics, Professional Responsibility
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Read chapter 1 pages 14 to 25 focusing specifically on table 1. 2. Refer to the preceding pages for clarifications on the differences in the perspectives. We are going to follow on gotterbarn s perspective that computer ethics should serve ict professionals. To this point we used a social/descriptive perspective to see the impact of technology on society and after the mid-term we will investigate issues from a philosophical perspective focusing on concepts of privacy, property, etc. The three different perspectives of computer ethics: cyberethics as a field of professional ethics (pg 20-23) Professional ethics (is what it professionals can do with programs, application and it is also looking from the professionals view point) The focus of cyberethics should be on issues of moral responsibility that affect computer/it professionals. Gotterbarn suggests that id not the business of computer ethics to examine issues other than those that affect computer professionals.