Cyberethics: Morality And Law in Cyberspace [Paperback]

Richard Spinello (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0763737836 | ISBN-13: 978-0763737832 | Edition: 3

CyberEthics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace, Third Edition takes an in-depth look at the social costs and moral problems that have arisen by the expanded use of the internet, and offers up-to-date legal and philosophical perspectives. The text focuses heavily on content control and free speech, intellectual property, privacy and security, and has added NEW coverage on Blogging. Case studies featured throughout the text offer real-life scenarios and include coverage of numerous hot topics, including the latest decisions on digital music and movie downloads, the latest legal developments on the Children's Internet Protection Act, and other internet governance and regulation updates. In the process of examining these issues, the text identifies some of the legal disputes that will likely become paradigm cases for more complex situations yet to come.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Pub; 3 edition (March 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0763737836
• ISBN-13: 978-0763737832
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #716,597 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Didn't select this book for my course, August 20, 2004

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Richard Gordon (Wilmington, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CyberEthics, Second Edition: Morality and Law in Cyberspace (Paperback)

I teach a computing ethics course at an area University. I did not select this book as my text when I reviewed texts for use in the Fall 2004 semester. I did choose Spinello and Tavani's new reader; but this book--like most of the predecessors Spinello has written--would drive my students nuts -- and they wouldn't know why. Bottom line: poorly written and not easy to read -- lots of tough sentence choices made. However, as with Spinello's other books, there are some points he makes that no other computing ethics texts' authors do make! So, I'll glean those points out of his text and present them to my students rather than force them to work their way through and around his prose.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, August 12, 2010

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Ameya A. Ambardekar "Ameya" (Missouri, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cyberethics: Morality And Law in Cyberspace (Paperback)

A very good book to understand the cyber ethics and laws in US and in the world overall

5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of time, October 21, 2003

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Emily Childress (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CyberEthics, Second Edition: Morality and Law in Cyberspace (Paperback)

This book was an incredible waste of time. I felt that the essays were a) far too dated (a rambling discourse on the dangers of cookies) or b) too out of touch (Rape in cyberspace was NOT a real rape in cyberspace, folks) The authors seem to be mainly scholars without a tech background than technical folks and I have to agree that the thesaurus was in heavy use during the writing of most of the these essays. Finally the book contains very little practical information on cyberethics. Not even a single case study.