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Luciano Floridi develops an original ethical framework for dealing with the new challenges posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). ICTs have profoundly changed many aspects of life, including the nature of entertainment, work, communication, education, health care, industrial production and business, social relations, and conflicts. They have had a radical and widespread impact on our moral lives and on contemporary ethical debates. Privacy, ownership, freedom of speech, responsibility, technological determinism, the digital divide, and pornography online are only some of the pressing issues that characterise the ethical discourse in the information society. They are the subject of Information Ethics (IE), the new philosophical area of research that investigates the ethical impact of ICTs on human life and society. Since the seventies, IE has been a standard topic in many curricula. In recent years, there has been a flourishing of new university courses, international conferences, workshops, professional organizations, specialized periodicals and research centres. However, investigations have so far been largely influenced by professional and technical approaches, addressing mainly legal, social, cultural and technological problems. This book is the first philosophical monograph entirely and exclusively dedicated to it. Floridi lays down, for the first time, the conceptual foundations for IE. He does so systematically, by pursuing three goals: a) a metatheoretical goal: it describes what IE is, its problems, approaches and methods; b) an introductory goal: it helps the reader to gain a better grasp of the complex and multifarious nature of the various concepts and phenomena related to computer ethics; c) an analytic goal: it answers several key theoretical questions of great philosophical interest, arising from the investigation of the ethical implications of ICTs. Although entirely independent of The Philosophy of Information (OUP, 2011), Floridi's previous book, The Ethics of Information complements it as new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.

Information technology --- Technologie de l'information --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Aspect moral

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Here?s a one-stop snapshot of emerging technologies every librarian should know about and examples that illustrate how the technologies are being used in libraries today! The e-book includes videos of interviews with librarians that are using them. The videos are available on a web site for people who purchase the print book. The first four chapters?Audio & Video, Self- and Micro-Publishing, Mobile Technology, and Crowdfunding?all look at older technologies reinvented and reimagined through significant advances in quality, scale, or hardware. Many libraries were already using these technologies in some way, and are now able to change and adapt those uses to meet current needs and take advantage of the latest improvements. The two next chapters look at new technologies: wearable technologies and the Internet of Things (simple but powerful computers that can be embedded into everyday objects and connected to controllers or data aggregation tools). The last two chapters?Privacy & Security and Keeping Up With Technology?are all-purpose topics that will continue to be affected by new developments in technology. Each of these chapters offers a brief overview of background information and current events, followed by a list of advantages and challenges to using these technologies in a library setting. The authors highlight the most useful or most well-known tools and devices, then specify how these technologies might be used in a library setting. Finally, they look at a variety of current examples from libraries in the United States and around the globe.

Computer. Automation --- Documentation and information --- Libraries --- Bibliothèques --- Information technology. --- Technologie de l'information --- Bibliothèques --- SECURITY -- 02

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Économie du savoir --- Métropolisation --- Créativité --- Capital intellectuel --- Technologie de l'information --- Aspect économique

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Sociology of culture --- Time pressure --- Contrainte de temps --- Perception du temps --- Time --- Time pressure. --- Time perception --- Information technology --- Technological innovations --- Sociological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Temps --- Technologie de l'information --- Innovations --- Social aspects --- Aspect sociologique --- Aspect social

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Human rights --- Information systems --- Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Electronic surveillance --- Information technology --- Computer security --- Privacy, Right of --- Social control --- Surveillance électronique --- Technologie de l'information --- Sécurité informatique --- Droit à la vie privée --- Contrôle social --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Computer security. --- Surveillance électronique --- Sécurité informatique --- Droit à la vie privée --- Contrôle social