Chapter 1: Foundation of information Ethic

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

What I expect to learn?

I want to learn about information ethic.

Quote:

“As a social organization and way of life, the information society has been made possible by a cluster of information and communication technologies infrastructures.”

Review:

Information society has posed fundamental ethical problems where the complexity and global dimensions are rapidly growing and evolving. Doing a task now is cooperative with information ethic. Information ethics should be able to address and solve the ethical challenges arising the info sphere. Information ethics has mean different things from the researcher which is discipline, computer ethics, business ethic, medical ethics, and computer science, the philosophy of information, social epistemology, and information science. Information Ethic has been claimed to be the study of moral issues arising from one or another of three distinct “information arrow” in the RPT model. The three distinct “information arrow” are Info-resource, info-target, info- product. The first stage of IE is as an ethic of informational resources. Information ethics was express by a general label to discuss issues regarding information (or data) confidentiality, reliability, quality, and usage. Ethical in intellectualism analyzes evil and morally wrong behavior as the outcome of deficient information. Second stage is IE as an ethics of informational products. Information-as-a-Product Ethics will cover moral issues arising, for example, in the context of accountability, liability, libel legislation, testimony, plagiarism, advertising, propaganda, misinformation, and more generally of pragmatic rules of communication. Third Stage is IE as an ethics of the informational environment. Information-as-Target Ethics misclassification allowed the hacker to defend his position by arguing that no use (let alone misuse) of the accessed information had been made. The two reasons of the model being criticized for adequate is the model is simplistic. Model is insufficiently inclusive. Bring together the three “informational arrows”, Consider the whole information cycle; and Analyze informationally all entities involved and their changes, actions, and interactions, by treating them not apart from, but as part of, the informational environment, or infosphere, to which they belong as informational systems themselves. The fourth stage of information ethic as a macroethic is that IE is a patient-oriented, ontocentric, ecological macroethics. Entropy here refers to any kind of destruction, corruption, pollution, and depletion of informational objects that is, any form of impoverishment of being.The perspective of the fourth stage is all things in the biosphere have an equal right to live and blossom. moral agent any interactive, autonomous, and adaptable transition system that can perform morally qualifiable actions.By distinguishing between moral responsibility, which requires intentions, consciousness, and other mental attitudes, and moral accountability, we can now avoid anthropocentric and anthropomorphic attitudes toward agenthood.    The human agent’s responsibility is not only the user but also the producer.It is about the value of IE in general and on IE as a macroethics in particular.It is in its actual applications that IE, as an ethics for our information society, will or will not qualify as a useful approach; yet building on the foundation provided by IE is a serious challenge, it cannot be an objection.a process or action may be morally good or bad irrespective of its consequences, motives, universality, or virtuous nature, but depending on how it affects the infosphere.

What I Learned?

• ·        There are different perspective in computer ethic
• ·        The stages of information ethic

Integrative Question:

1. What is RPT Model?
2. What is the Ethical in Intellectualism?
3. What is Information-as-a-Product Ethics?
4. What the two reasons are of criticized for being adequate of the model?

5. What is the concluding perspective of chapter 1?

Discussion:

1. What is information society?

It is role played by intellectual, intangible assets, information-intensive and public sectors.

1. What is RPT Model?

It is useful to explain why any technology that radically modifies the “life of information” is bound to have profound moral implications for any moral agent.

1. What is the meaning of the three distinct “information arrow” in the RPT model?

Info-resource, Info-target, info- product.

1. What is the Ethical in Intellectualism?

Ethical in intellectualism analyzes evil and morally wrong behavior as the outcome of deficient information.

1. What is Information-as-a-Product Ethics?

Information-as-a-Product Ethics, will cover moral issues arising, for example, in the context of accountability, liability, libel legislation, testimony, plagiarism, advertising, propaganda, misinformation, and more generally of pragmatic rules of communication

10.  What is Information-as-Target-Ethic?

Information-as-Target Ethics misclassification allowed the hacker to defend his position by arguing that no use (let alone misuse) of the accessed information had been made.

11.  What the two reasons are of criticized for being adequate of the model?

The two reasons of the model being criticized for adequate is the model is simplistic. Model is insufficiently inclusive.

12.  What are the information ethics encompassing approach?

Bring together the three “informational arrows”, Consider the whole information cycle; and Analyze informationally all entities involved and their changes, actions, and interactions, by treating them not apart from, but as part of, the informational environment, or infosphere, to which they belong as informational systems themselves.

13.  What is the fourth interpretation of IE as macroethics?

The fourth stage of information ethic as a macroethic is that IE is a patient-oriented, ontocentric, ecological macroethics

14.  What is the meaning of Entrophy?

Entropy here refers to any kind of destruction, corruption, pollution, and depletion of informational objects that is, any form of impoverishment of being

15.  What is the perspective of fourth stage?

The perspective of the fourth stage is all things in the biosphere have an equal right to live and blossom

16.  What is moral agent?

moral agent any interactive, autonomous, and adaptable transition system that can perform morally qualifiable actions.

17.  How will you distinguish morality upon responsibility?

By distinguishing between moral responsibility, which requires intentions, consciousness, and other mental attitudes, and moral accountability, we can now avoid anthropocentric and anthropomorphic attitudes toward agenthood

18.  What is a human agent responsibility?

            The human agent’s responsibility is not only the user but also the producer.

15. What is the 4 moral principle?

(1) Entropy ought not to be caused in the infosphere (null law);

(2) Entropy ought to be prevented in the infosphere;

(3) Entropy ought to be removed from the infosphere;

(4) The flourishing of informational entities as well as of the whole infosphere

ought to be promoted by preserving, cultivating, and enriching their properties.

16. What is the two recurrent objection against IE?

It is about the value of IE in general and on IE as a macroethics in particular.

17. What is IE as and ethic?

It is in its actual applications that IE, as an ethics for our information society, will or will not qualify as a useful approach; yet building on the foundation provided by IE is a serious challenge, it cannot be an objection.

18. What is the concluding perspective of chapter 1?

a process or action may be morally good or bad irrespective of its consequences, motives, universality, or virtuous nature, but depending on how it affects the infosphere.