BC3 Library: Professional Ethics: Computer and Technology Ethics

Databases for Today's Controversial Issues

CQ Researcher
Facts on File Issues and Controversies

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Suggested Databases for Technology Ethics Information

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Collection of academic, peer reviewed, research journals as well as some popular magazines.

MasterFILE Premier This link opens in a new window
EBSCOhost's MasterFILE Premier database is designed specifically for public libraries. Indexes primarily popular and news magazines.

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Vocational and Career Collection This link opens in a new window
EBSCOhost's Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry-related periodicals.

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
EBSCOhost's Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Westlaw This link opens in a new window
Westlaw is a legal database that includes secondary and primary legal sources. Primary sources include statutes, codes, and case law. Secondary sources include articles from legal journals and the American Jurisprudence legal encyclopedia.

Newsbank This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from over 800 U.S. newspapers including local newspapers like the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Butler Eagle.

New York Times This link opens in a new window
BC3 students and employees can sign up for free access to the New York Times through Butler County Community College's NYT Academic Pass Subscription.
1. Go to http://www.accessnyt.com
2. Search for Butler County Community College from the list of institutions
3. You MUST use your BC3 email when setting up your NYT account
4. You will need to re-register for the NYT annually

Featured Computer and Technology Ethics Journal Articles

Computer Ethics
A discussion about computer ethics, the study of moral concepts, principles, and reasoning, applied in contexts that involve computers in some essential way.
Computers
Raises some of the sociological and ethical questions raised by computers.
Ethics
The philosophical study of morality.
Ethics in Digital Media
Digital media ethics confronts the ethical challenges evoked by digital media, including the rapid diffusion of mobile and GPS-enabled smartphones and related technologies. This has dramatically expanded the sheer range of communicative and creative engagements and led to digital devices intruding into private spaces.
Ethics of Computing
With computer science and technology playing such a central role in virtually every aspect of modern life, the question of appropriate ethical principles and standards for computer professionals has become increasingly vital.
Professionalism and Ethics
This article discusses the professionalism and ethics of people working in the IT and computing industry.
Social Media Ethics
This article explores several ethically relevant aspects of social media and its use, its influence on personality and on cognitive performance, and the problematic status of intellectual property and privacy. In addition, attention is drawn to the ethical styles that are most naturally expressed in social media behavior.
Technological Ethics in Context: The Case of Nanotechnology
This article is divided into five sections that track the science, engineering, and ethics controversies in the young history of the field of nanotechnology.
Technology
A philosophical look at both the ethical constraints on developing or implementing particular technologies and the ethical acceptability of various economic and policy methods used to evaluate technology.
Video Games and Virtual Reality
This article looks at two philosophical debates: the aesthetic nature of video games and whether games can be art, and the ethical nature of games and the people playing them.
Cybersecurity: current writings on threats and protection
This handbook of cybersecurity best practices is for public officials and citizens, employers and employees, corporations and consumers. Essays also address the development of state-of-the-art software systems and hardware for public and private organizations.

TED Talk: How Technology Changes Our Sense of Right and Wrong

Computer and Technology Ethics Websites

ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
The Code is designed to inspire and guide the ethical conduct of all computing professionals, including current and aspiring practitioners, instructors, students, influencers, and anyone who uses computing technology in an impactful way.
Computing Cases
This website offers a variety of historical cases and case studies that can help you learn more about ethical issues in computing.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
EPIC is a public interest research center, established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, freedom of expression, and democratic values in the information age.
Ethics Education Library
This organization helps connect people interested in developing new and interesting ethics training methods and programs, disseminates best practices and tools, and fosters the creation of new methods and programs for teaching students about ethical issues. Includes resources such as articles, case studies, reports, policies, and more.
Federal Trade Commission
The FTC is a bipartisan federal agency with a unique dual mission to protect consumers and promote competition.
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
IEET is a nonprofit think tank that studies how new technologies impact people and society. They promote technological progress as a catalyst for positive human development, freedom, and happiness, while ensuring that technologies are safe and equitably distributed.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University: Internet Ethics
The Internet Ethics program explores topics like online privacy, cybersecurity, social media, data ethics, the digital divide, internet access, and more.
In collaboration with the Technology Ethics program, it also addresses AI ethics, corporate tech ethics development, and software engineering ethics—developing teaching and training materials related to each of those subjects.
Pew Research Center: Internet & Technology
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entries:

News Articles and Editorials on Technology Ethics

Computer and Technology Ethics Books

Locating Books in the BC3 Library

The BC3 Library has both print and electronic books about computer and technology ethics and related subjects. They are all listed in the BC3 Library Catalog where you will find Dewey call numbers to locate books on the shelves (lower level of the library) and links to connect you to e-books. E-books can also be searched separately in our two e-book collections: e-Book Central by Proquest and e-Book Collection by EBSCO.

Browsing the Stacks

Some books about computer and technology ethics are located with books on other computer-related subjects, in the 001-006 area of the shelves.

Other books about the ethics of computers and technology can be found with other books about ethics in the 170 section of the library.

OER Resources for Computer Ethics

Technology Ethics (Open Textbook Library)
OER Commons materials in Computer Ethics
Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
Free e-book from PressBooks that can help you develop your fact checking skills and evaluate sources of information.

Related Guides by the BC3 Library

Hot Topics in Technology Ethics

Copyright
Cyber Security
Cyberbullying
Identity Theft
Internet Privacy
Net Neutrality
Social Media
The Dark Web
Videogames

Style Guides and Citation Help

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): APA
APA Style Guide and Examples
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): MLA
MLA Style Guide and Examples

Accessing New York Times articles

BC3 students and employees can sign up for free access to the New York Times through Butler County Community College's NYT Academic Pass Subscription.
1. Go to http://www.accessnyt.com
2. Search for Butler County Community College from the list of institutions
3. You MUST use your BC3 email when setting up your NYT account
4. You will need to re-register for the NYT annually