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Summary: Overly verbose, hardly profound
Review: As a student who has read this book, I feel the material could have more easily been taught in one or two lectures rather than a highly repetative, wordy, hardly insightful paperback.
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Summary: Concise, profound, and philosophical.
Review: Deborah Johnson is a philospher who thinks deeply about computer ethics. I use this book to teach computer ethics to students who aren't computer scientists or philosophers. Johnson has a useful mix of philosophical principles and technical details. Several "scenarios" (cases) are used to illustrate computer ethics problems. The only reason I rate this as a 9 and not a 10 is that it needs updating; there needs to be more discussion of the web. But even in its present form this book is concise, clever, and profound. I recommend it highly.
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Summary: Painfully boring
Review: I'm double majoring in Philosophy and Communication, so I thought that this was going to be a great book for my Computer Ethics class. Our assignments consisted of writing responses to each chapter. I was so bored only a few pages in that my responses focused on those pages and completely left out the rest of the chapter.Having said that, if you don't read any other chapter, read "Chapter 5: Privacy". This chapter is great for debate and is VERY thought provoking. I actually read all of this one. There are so many services that people can go to, where they can access info about you. Is that ethical? The good and bad thing about ethics in general, is that there usually isn't a right or wrong answer. This can also be a problem in that some people feel very strongly about an issue and refuse to even view it from another's perspective.
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Summary: Painfully boring
Review: I'm double majoring in Philosophy and Communication, so I thought that this was going to be a great book for my Computer Ethics class. Our assignments consisted of writing responses to each chapter. I was so bored only a few pages in that my responses focused on those pages and completely left out the rest of the chapter. Having said that, if you don't read any other chapter, read "Chapter 5: Privacy". This chapter is great for debate and is VERY thought provoking. I actually read all of this one. There are so many services that people can go to, where they can access info about you. Is that ethical? The good and bad thing about ethics in general, is that there usually isn't a right or wrong answer. This can also be a problem in that some people feel very strongly about an issue and refuse to even view it from another's perspective.
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Summary: Insightful, but expensive!
Review: There aren't a whole lot of books on computer ethics yet, and this is one of the better ones. It's definitely a topic of study that needs more focus in today's world, and if you're interested at all, this is the text to pick up. Johnson does a good job of explaining philosophical theory (no surprise, as she is a philosophy professor) and analyzes many interesting case examples. If you intend to be a computer professional someday, it could be useful to know what you might be getting yourself into. This book will give you some food for thought in the ethics of cutting-edge technology. It is quite well organized and not boring, which is better than I can say for about 95% of the textbooks I've had to read. Johnson takes a strong position on some points of debate that could actually go either way, so you might not always agree with her, but she does provide good reasoning to back up the claims. The big downside of this book is its price- it's ridiculous. This is a short paperback with an intimidatingly small typeset, and no illustrations of any sort. I really don't see why it has to cost so much. Someone is certainly making a killing off it! Is that ethical?
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Summary: Repetitive, Not for Techies
Review: this book by D.Johnson is very useful for students taking the ethics course.he clearly explained the ethical issues involved with computers
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Review: This book is painful to read. The writing is clear, but it is so boring and repetitive that I can barely bring myself to pick it up. It seems like a majority of the time she rambles on about issues that aren't even specific to technology, and are, as another reader suggested, common sense. Unfortunately I have to read this book, since I am yet another CS major taking a required course in ethics related to technology. The subject isn't bad, the book is.
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Summary: Simple school book.
Review: This rather simple book leads one to appreciate the full extent of computers within ethics. At least, I hope it has that major areas covered. My professor chooses it for two web based courses in philosophy and it was fun to read. If your going to buy it, I think the fact that your on the Internet, is enough of a reason that I can guess you'll get something out of this book.
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