90-745, Ethics and Information Networking
6 units
Prerequisites: None
Delivery Format: On-Campus
Description: This course intends to analyze the main ethical issues in information networking within an international and multicultural perspective. It will begin with the introduction of an analytic framework useful in addressing ethical issues, problems and dilemmas generally. Next, it will explore the topic of how the networked society has become a major paradigmatic view of contemporary life. Then, the course will examine ethical concerns related to networking and privacy, security, transparency and the digital divide. For each of these ethical issues, several case studies associated with different cultural environments will be presented and discussed. As such the course breaks ground for a new area of study in applied ethics that can be called Network Ethics.
Last modified on November 14, 2006
