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Chapter 14: Responsibilities for Information on the Internet

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Chapter 14: Responsibilities for Information on the Internet

 

Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Information-Computer-Ethics/dp/0471799599

 

What I expect to learn?

I expect to learn about Responsibilities for Information on the Internet

 

Quote:

Information and communication networks like the Internet are media that enormously enhance the accessibility of information

Review:

A network that consists of a disparate set of heterogeneous organizations and individuals, ranging from commercial business corporations and private organizations of volunteers, to governmental institutions, universities, and individual citizens. Retrospective responsibility is an equivalent of accountability. The connection between prospective responsibility and retrospective responsibility is not only a motivational one; understanding the prospective responsibility involved also focuses our attention on the relevant aspects of a situation when we are deciding whether the first and the second condition of retrospective responsibility have been satisfied. The first reason for not leaving moral responsibility aside, is that legal liability is very restricted in its possibilities of preventing harm and offence. The second reason has to do with the fact that often ISPs are simply the only ones left to do something in order to prevent harm or offence from happening. ISPs can be compared with the providers of the traditional mass media. This relationship shows itself in the dependence of the causality and intentionality conditions on the character and the dimension of the harm or offense involved.  Part of the risks of sharing expert knowledge with the general public is caused by the nonexperts inabilities to recognize and assess the reliability or unreliability of expert information or information that is being presented as expert information. Information and communication networks like the Internet are media that enormously enhance the accessibility of information. Reliable information is information that we would be justified in believing. Nonexperts tend to gain ever more and easier access to information originally intended for an expert audience. That is why problems relating to reliability of information are not exclusively problems that are intentionally or unintentionally caused by content providers or problems inherent to the information. The awareness of the growing dependence on online information is still young. Similarly the search for instruments for maintaining or improving reliability has just started

 

What I Learned?

  • ·        Responsibilities in internet

 

Integrative Question:

  1. What does network consists?

 

  1. What is retrospective responsibility?

 

  1. What is the connection of the two responsibilities?

 

  1. what are some reasons involving responsibilities?

 

  1. What does ISP compared to?

 

 

Discussion:

 

  1. What does network consists?

It is a network that consists of a disparate set of heterogeneous organizations and individuals, ranging from commercial business corporations and private organizations of volunteers, to governmental institutions, universities, and individual citizens.

 

  1. What is retrospective responsibility?

Retrospective responsibility is an equivalent of accountability.

 

  1. What is the connection of the two responsibility?

The connection between prospective responsibility and retrospective responsibility is not only a motivational one; understanding the prospective responsibility involved also focuses our attention on the relevant aspects of a situation when we are deciding whether the first and the second condition of retrospective responsibility have been satisfied.

 

  1. what are some reasons involving responsibilities?

The first reason for not leaving moral responsibility aside, is that legal liability is very restricted in its possibilities of preventing harm and offence.The second reason has to do with the fact that often ISPs are simply the only ones left to do something in order to prevent harm or offence from happening.

 

  1. What does ISP compared to?

ISPs can be compared with the providers of the traditional mass media.

 

  1. What does the relationship of the two responsibility shows us?

This relationship shows itself in the dependence of the causality and intentionality conditions on the character and the dimension of the harm or offense involved.

 

  1. What could be the risk?

Part of the risks of sharing expert knowledge with the general public is caused by the nonexperts inabilities to recognize and assess the reliability or unreliability of expert information or information that is being presented as expert information.

 

  1. What is the networks that enhance accessibility?

Information and communication networks like the Internet are media that enormously enhance the accessibility of information.

 

  1. What is reliable information?

Reliable information is information that we would be justified in believing.

 

10.  What is the problem on expanding the communication for information?

Nonexperts tend to gain ever more and easier access to information originally intended for an expert audience. That is why problems relating to reliability of information are not exclusively problems that are intentionally or unintentionally caused by content providers or problems inherent to the information.

 

11.  What is the conlcuding part of the chapter?

The awareness of the growing dependence on online information is still young. Similarly the search for instruments for maintaining or improving reliability has just started

 

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