ITM 407 Chapter 1: Chapter 1

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 407
• Professor: Candace Grant

Document Summary

Chapter 1 introduction to cyberethics: concepts, perspectives, and methodological. privately owned networks could be lan & wan (on pg 10: internet & privately owned computer networks r most common examples of cybertechnology. Information ethics (ie) for analyzing issues in cyberethics. 1. 2 the cyberethics evolution: four developmental phases in cybertechnology y evolution of cyberethics can be summarized in 4 technological phases: phase 1 (1950s and 1960s) mainly huge mainframe computers that were unconnected & existed as stand-alone machines. 1 set of ethical & social questions raised during this phase had to do with the impact of computing machines as giant brains . another set of ethical & social concerns that arose was under the heading of privacy threats & the fear of big brother (ex. on pg 12: phase 2 (1970s and 1980s) computing machines & communication devices in the commercial sector began to join.