| Gender, Ethics and Information Technology 2005 Edition Contributor(s): Adam, A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403915067 ISBN-13: 9781403915061 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: Hacking, software crime, online harassment and cyberstalking, Internet pornography, computer mediated communications, privacy and online community and democracy are information technology topics with an implicit gender dimension which has rarely been explored. "Gender, Ethics and Information Technology" uses feminist ethics to offer an original analysis of these key issues. It is an interdisciplinary work involving critical and gender studies of science and technology, communications studies, social studies of technology, information systems, and computer ethics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Computers | Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 174.900 |
| LCCN: 2004059128 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (0.85 lbs) 196 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book brings feminist philosophy, in the shape of feminist ethics, politics and legal theory, to an analysis of computer ethics problems including hacking, privacy, surveillance, cyberstalking and Internet dating. Adam claims that these issues cannot be properly understood unless we see them as problems relating to gender. For the first time, these issues are put under the feminist spotlight to show that traditional responses reproduce the public/private split which has so often reinforced the causes of women's oppression. |