Gender, Ethics, and Information Technology

by Adam, Alison

• ISBN13: 9781403915061
• ISBN10: 1403915067
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Alison Adam is Professor and Head of School at the Information Systems Institute at the University of Salford, Manchester.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vi
1 Gender and Information and Communications Technologies - It's not for Girls!	1	(16)
2 Feminist Political and Legal Theory: The Public/Private Dichotomy	17	(20)
3 Feminist Ethics: Ethics in a Different Voice	37	(19)
4 The Rise of Computer Ethics: From Professionalism to Legislative Failures	56	(22)
5 Gender and Computer Ethics - Contemporary Approaches and Contemporary Problems	78	(24)
6 Internet Dating, Cyberstalking and Internet Pornography: Gender and the Gaze	102	(26)
7 Hacking into Hacking: Gender and the Hacker Phenomenon	128	(19)
8 Someone to Watch Over Me - Gender, Technologies, Privacy and Surveillance	147	(24)
9 Epilogue: Feminist Cyberethics?	171	(6)
Bibliography	177	(11)
Index	188