Cybersins and Digital Good Deeds: A Book About Technology and Ethics
Autor James Van Roekel, MaryAnn Bell, Bobby Ezellen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 noi 2006
What is safe and responsible behavior for using the Internet? Cybersins and Digital Good Deeds: A Book About Technology and Ethics provides a comprehensive look at the innovative—and sometimes unscrupulous—world of rapidly evolving technology and the people who use it. This encyclopedic source helps even the most technology-challenged understand various facets relating to the use and misuse of technology in today’s society. Topics are organized A-to-Z for easy reference, with selections chosen because of historical importance, present relevance, and the likelihood of future impact. Privacy, security, censorship, and much, much more are discussed in detail to reveal the ethical complexities of each issue.
Harmful and illegal cyber behavior can manifest quickly in several ways in today’s digital world. Keeping up with the shifts and advances in technology, its applications, and how it affects you can be difficult. Cybersins and Digital Good Deeds reviews the latest trends in computer technology and the impact it has on the way we live. This extensive book provides easy-to-understand explanations of tech terms, while clearly examining the current ethical issues surrounding different aspects of technology and its use in positive or destructive actions. Discussions include issues concerning general use, business, entertainment, multimedia development, and education.
The broad range of ethical topics in Cybersins and Digital Good Deeds includes:
- advertising in school
- the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and its impact upon technology in schools
- blogging and free speech
- bride scams
- video voyeurism
- censorship and filtering
- cheating in school using technology
- Child Online Protection Act
- Child Pornography Prevention Act (CPPA)
- computer addiction
- crackers, lamers, and phreaks
- cyberbullying
- cyberchondriacs
- disinhibition
- domain hijacking
- Online auction fraud
- elder care and technology
- Google Bombing
- identity theft
- pornography
- media and cognitive development
- movie duplication
- sharing audio files
- online gambling
- pyramid schemes
- the Patriot Act
- phishing
- podcasting
- Project Gutenberg
- RFID tracking
- spyware
- technolust
- Trojan horses and viruses
- much, much more!
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780789029539
ISBN-10: 0789029537
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: CRC Press
Colecția CRC Press
Locul publicării:Boca Raton, United States
ISBN-10: 0789029537
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: CRC Press
Colecția CRC Press
Locul publicării:Boca Raton, United States
Public țintă
Academic, Postgraduate, and UndergraduateNotă biografică
James Van Roekel, MaryAnn Bell, Bobby Ezell
Cuprins
Introduction, Absent Presence, Advertising at School, AMBER Alert, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Its Impact upon Technology in Schools, Blogging—A Tool for Education and Free Speech, Bride Scams, Camcorders, Surveillance, and Video Voyeurism, Cell Phone Rage, Cell Phones and Driving, Cell Yell, Censorship and Filtering, Cheating at School Using Cell Phone Cameras, Child Online Protection Act and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Child Pornography Prevention Act, Children’s Internet Protection Act, Computer Addiction, Computer Security, Crackers, Lamers, and Phreaks, Creating an Identity in a Chat Room, Cyberbullying, Cyberchondriacs, Disinformation, Disinhibition, Distance Learning Content Sharing, Distributed Computing, Doctor-Patient Relationships, Domain Hijacking, DRM, eBay and Online Auction Fraud, Elder Care and Technology, E-Mail Addresses and Privacy, Encryption, E-Waste, File Swapping, Firewall, Flame Wars, Flash Mobs, Google Bombing, Google Book Search, Google Stalking, GPS and Privacy, Hackers, Crackers, and Hacking, Hacktivism, Hoaxes, Identity Theft and the Internet, Internet Pornography, Internet User Agreement and the Library, Keystroke Logging, Logging On As an Administrator, Logo Abuse, Marketing to Chi
Descriere
What is safe and responsible behavior for using the Internet? Cybersins and Digital Good Deeds: A Book About Technology and Ethics provides a comprehensive look at the innovative—and sometimes unscrupulous—world of rapidly evolving technology and the people who use it. This encyclopedic source helps even the most technology-challenged understand various facets relating to the use and misuse of technology in today's society. Topics are organized A-to-Z for easy reference, with selections chosen because of historical importance, present relevance, and the likelihood of future impact. Privacy, security, censorship, and much, much more are discussed in detail to reveal the ethical complexities of each issue.