Book description
The Sixth Edition of CyberEthics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace provides a comprehensive examination of the social costs and moral issues emerging from the ever-expanding use of the internet and new information technologies. Focusing heavily on content control, free speech, intellectual property, and security, the sixth edition offers a legal and philosophical discussion of these critical issues.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 The Internet and Ethical Values
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Chapter 2 Regulating and Governing the Internet
- A Short History of the Internet
- The Internet’s Current Architecture
- Net Neutrality
- The World Wide Web
- Gatekeepers and Search Engines
- Social Networking
- A “Bottom-Up” Approach: Empowerment by Code
- Internet Governance
- Contested Sovereignty in Cyberspace
- Discussion Questions
- Case Studies: L’Affair Yahoo!
- References
- Additional Resources
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Chapter 3 Free Speech and Content Controls in Cyberspace
- Speech and Internet Architecture
- Pornography in Cyberspace
- Hate Speech and Online Threats
- Anonymous Speech
- The Ethics of Blogging
- Spam as Commercial Free Speech
- Government Censorship and the Fate of Political Speech
- Postscript
- Discussion Questions
- Case Studies: When Is a Facebook Post a Real Threat?
- References
- Additional Resources
- Chapter 4 Intellectual Property in Cyberspace
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Chapter 5 Regulating Internet Privacy
- A Definition and Theory of Privacy
- Personal Information on the Internet
- Consumer Privacy on the Internet
- The United States and the European Union: Divergent Paths to Privacy Protection
- A Prescription for Privacy?
- Privacy in the Workplace
- Discussion Questions
- Case Studies: Privacy and the Right to Be Forgotten
- References
- Additional Resources
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Chapter 6 Securing the Electronic Frontier
- Vulnerabilities of the Net
- Cybercrime
- Antipiracy Architectures
- Trespass, Hackers, and Hacktivism
- Security Measures in Cyberspace
- The Encryption Controversy: A Public Policy Perspective
- Encryption Code, Privacy, and Free Speech
- Discussion Questions
- Case Studies: The Lulz Sec Hackers
- References
- Additional Resources
- Glossary: The Language of the Internet
- Legal Cases Cited
- Index
Product information
- Title: Cyberethics, 6th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2016
- Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett Learning
- ISBN: 9781284081411
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