AUTHOR Krystyna Górniak-Kocikowska ABSTRACT Ten years ago, at the first ETHICOMP conference in Leicester, UK, I presented a paper The Computer Revolution and the Problem of Global Ethics. I argued then that the computer revolution has a global character, and that the Computer Ethics has to be therefore a global ethics. I am happy that […]
AUTHOR Mikolaj Kocikowski ABSTRACT Massively Multiplayer On-line Role Playing Games, or MMORPGs, put tens of thousands of simultaneously connected players in a virtual world. Since Sony’s release of Everquest, the first large, commercial MMORPG in March of 1999, a number of titles were added to the fastest growing genre of computer games. Though the majority […]
AUTHOR Chuck Huff and Simon Rogerson ABSTRACT Introduction Much has been made of the difficulties facing computer professionals who would be ethical. We have little evidence of success stories. This is an early report of a project to identify moral exemplars in computing and to use life-story interviews (McAdams, et al. 2001) to document their […]
AUTHOR James GS Wilson ABSTRACT This paper looks at copyright in software, in the light of Microsoft’s increasing attempts to make it impossible to run Windows on any computer without having paid the requisite licence fee. If one looks at it from Microsoft’s point of view, then their goal is clearly laudable: Those who are […]
AUTHOR Emma Eliason and Karin Hedstrom ABSTRACT The Internet, as communication medium, is being increasingly used by citizens and governments in most advanced democracies (Gibson et.al, 2003). ICT has changed the possibilities and restrictions in the way you can communicate, thus offers a new action space for politicians and citizens to act within (Astrom, 2004). […]
AUTHOR Bernd Carsten Stahl, N Ben Fairweather, Simon Rogerson and Robert Beckett ABSTRACT 1) Introduction In this paper we present a project that the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR) has undertaken in the area of information ethics. The project was funded in the second Quarter of 2004 by the East Midlands Development Agency […]